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“Riding a wave of populist anger fueled
by rampant corruption and violence, the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador was
elected president of Mexico on Sunday, in a landslide victory that upended the
nation’s political establishment and handed him a sweeping mandate to reshape
the country,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. López Obrador’s win puts a leftist leader
at the helm of Latin America’s second-largest economy for the first time in
decades, a prospect that has filled millions of Mexicans with hope — and the
nation’s elites with trepidation.”
”The outcome
represents a clear rejection of the status quo in the nation, which for the
last quarter century has been defined by a centrist vision and an embrace of
globalization that many Mexicans feel has not served them.”
“The core promises of Mr. López Obrador’s campaign — to end
corruption, reduce violence and address Mexico’s endemic poverty — were
immensely popular with voters, but they come with questions he and his new
government may struggle to answer.”
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