Posted on 07/03/2018 12:09:38 PM PDT by NRx
He has just been elected commander-in-chief of a nation mired in an intractable drug conflict that has claimed more than 200,000 lives in little more than a decade.
But on Tuesday, Mexico’s incoming president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, claimed he would waive the right to close protection in a bid to stay close to the people.
“I don’t want bodyguards, which means the citizens will take care of me and protect me,” López Obrador, or Amlo, as he is best known, told reporters as he called on Mexico’s incumbent president, Enrique Peña Nieto, to discuss the transition.
Amlo, a 64-year-old leftist who trounced opponents in Sunday’s vote, was repeating an undertaking made on several occasions during his historic campaign – one of several promises designed to bolster his image as a man of the people who will rule for Mexico’s 53 million poor.
“I don’t want to go around surrounded by bodyguards. I want you to take care of me, I want the people to look after me,” Amlo told a rally in Hidalgo state in May.
Amlo’s other populist pledges include:
*Refusing to live in Mexico City’s opulent 19th-century presidential residence, Los Pinos (the Pines). “I won’t live in a mansion of any kind,” he told a recent gathering on the capital’s hardscrabble outskirts, promising to convert the building into an arts centre “for the Mexican people”.
*Selling the presidential plane and banning top officials from crisscrossing the country in private jets and helicopters. “All this is going to end … we cannot have a rich government and a poor people,” he said...
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Well, bye.....................
He’s the drug cartel’s president.
A socialist and an idiot
You are repeating yourself.
Which cartel will protect him is the better question......
Dead man walking.
A POTUS here, these days, does not have the liberty to say ‘no’ to bodyguards.
Even drug cartels have enemies...like other drug cartels :-)
Supposedly he is going to cut way back on government action and the use of the military against the cartels. Maybe he has an understanding with the drug lords and they will pull back on the violence against public officials, themselves.
Wonder what the Vegas guys are giving for odds on this guy?................
We need to start a pool as to how long this moron lasts.
This guy needs to sit down and watch a few episodes of “Queen of the South”... :-)
LEAVE BUBBLE TOP OFF THE LIMO.
Dead man walking.
Let’s see how long that lasts if it’s even true to begin with!
Translation: I have an arrangement with the cartels
So who’s the VP?
Manny No Show ;-)
He will want a wall, for the same reason we want one.
Well, now. We have to ensure that government of the Cartels, by the Cartels, and for the Cartels shall not perish from the Earth.
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