U.S. Populist Rhetoric Is Shifting Political Forces in Mexico - Toward the Left Alasdair Baverstock - Fox News
go to original March 7, 2017

Presidential hopefuls are already campaigning in Mexico, with man-of-the-people Andrés Manuel López Obrador leading the pack. (Alasdair Baverstock/FoxNews.com)

As the U.S. looks back over one of the most divisive presidential elections in recent memory, Mexico’s own leadership battle is getting underway. As candidates for the top job come forward, the country’s main concern comes to the forefront: who can handle Donald Trump?

Enrique Peña Nieto will step aside on June 4, 2018. The most unpopular leader since records began, his replacements are already campaigning in the president’s heartlands, with man-of-the-people Andrés Manuel López Obrador leading the pack.

Known as AMLO, the firebrand populist has already been defeated in two presidential elections, yet, undeterred by ejection from his party and protesting fraud by political opponents at every turn, his anti-graft cause is building a head of steam as he tours marginalized Mexico.

“We will bring down the Mafia of Power that has destroyed this country,” he shouted to the crowd in Ecatepec, the most murderous town in Mexico, in a rally last week. “Our politicians have betrayed us, lying and stealing, and allowing the United States to punish the poorest for their mistakes.”

Being a career politician hasn’t stopped AMLO from tearing a few pages out of Donald Trump’s playbook. He has used his high-profile defeats to personify the thorn in the government’s side, a role which resounds with the growing number of Mexicans (and was effective with a great number of Americans) who feel betrayed by their politicians.

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Related: Mexican Presidential Candidate López Obrador Campaigns on Both Sides of the Border (WSWS.org)

Related: Mexico's AMLO Talks of Trump in El Paso Visit (El Paso Times)

Related: Mexican Presidential Candidate Margarita Zavala Attacks Trump as the ‘Bad Hombre’ (The Monitor)

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