MEXICO: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been accused of hypocrisy for vouching for an anti-protest law in southern Mexico. The new legislation that came into effect in AMLO’s home state of Tabasco yesterday features harsh punishments for protests, including prison sentences of up to 20 years for blocking access to businesses and 13 years for impeding work on public works projects. Critics see the law as contradictory since AMLO gained notoriety in the nineties for participating in disruptive demonstrations against the state-owned oil facilities in the Gulf coast state. AMLO said that “order had to be restored” in Tabasco, where the president seeks to complete a new $8 billion refinery in the next four years.