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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador cheers his supporters at Zocalo Square in Mexico City after winning the presidential election, on July 1, 2018. / Photo: AFP / Pedro Parido

Mexico gets its own version of Trump

by Jorge G Castañeda July 2, 2018

US President Donald Trump has been the world’s worst headache for the past 18 months, and arguably no country has suffered more than Mexico. Of the three main contenders in Mexico’s just-completed presidential election, none was as ill prepared as the winner, Andrés Manuel López Obrador – AMLO, as he is known – to manage […]