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How Andrés Manuel López Obrador will remake Mexico
economist.com ^ | 6/28/2018 | Unk

Posted on 06/28/2018 8:27:40 AM PDT by rktman

Mexican voters are so fed up with their ruling class that they are taking a chance on a populist.

These events sum up what many Mexicans have long liked about Mr López Obrador, and what others fear. His concern for the poor and wish to improve their lot is sincere. However, Mr López Obrador has a shaky grasp of economics—urging some people not to pay their bills tends to drive up prices for everyone else, for example. And he has little respect for rules or institutions. This matters because Mr López Obrador is set to become Mexico’s president in an election on July 1st. He has a poll lead of 25 points over his nearest challenger, Ricardo Anaya of the conservative National Action Party (PAN). José Antonio Meade, a non-party candidate picked by the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), is further adrift. There is also a chance that a coalition led by Morena, founded four years ago, will win control of congress.

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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amlo; canada; doomage; mexico; nafta; obrador; socialist; trumpmexico
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To: rktman
And he has little respect for rules or institutions.

Does he use a private server as well?

21 posted on 06/28/2018 4:02:46 PM PDT by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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and the nationalization of foreign assets will commence ten minutes after it's elected... right?
22 posted on 06/28/2018 5:39:14 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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Mexican voters are so fed up with their ruling class that they are taking a chance on a populist.
Thanks rktman.
23 posted on 07/04/2018 10:28:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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