AMLO's Strategy? Tone Things Down and Let the President Deal With Trump
AMLO's Strategy? Tone Things Down and Let the President Deal With Trump
With his U.S. tour about to kick off, Mexico’s populist presidential hopeful is looking less confrontational than expected.
As the politician best positioned to ride a wave of nationalist, anti-Trump sentiment to Mexico's presidency in 2018, Andrés Manuel López Obrador appears to be embracing an unexpected strategy: moderation.
López Obrador, widely known as AMLO, has earned his reputation as one of Mexico’s most polarizing national figures. When he narrowly lost the presidential election in 2006, he had himself sworn in as “Mexico’s legitimate president” on the streets of the capital; his supporters...
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