Who Spooks Mexico's Elites More: Trump or AMLO?
Who Spooks Mexico's Elites More: Trump or AMLO?
Mexico's own populist contender, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is an early front-runner for 2018 presidential elections.
When Donald Trump says he might not accept the result of the U.S. presidential election on November 6 (unless he wins), listeners in Mexico can be forgiven for thinking the claim sounds familiar: their own populist presidential contender, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has twice refused to accept defeat in national elections.
The similarity is not lost on Mexican political observers. No sooner had Trump made the remark at a debate in October than Twitter lit up with caustic comments and memes of the two men, including some showing Trump and López Obrador morphing into the same person...
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