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Offline endicom

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A Leftist Nationalist in Mexico? OK
« on: June 30, 2018, 10:08:56 pm »
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W. Lewis Amselem
June 30, 2018

Tomorrow is election day in Mexico. For what they're worth, in a nation famous for making Chicago elections look like saintly affairs, the polls show Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as the front-runner. We'll see if the powers that be allow an end to the PRI-PAN duopoly that has governed Mexico during the 21st century, and permit AMLO's coalition, led by his "Moreno" party, to win. AMLO, a former moderately successful mayor of Mexico City, is running on a "Mexico First" platform, and promises to do all sorts of things about corruption, the drug war, local wages, protection of farmers, and vague promises about standing up to the USA. AMLO, of course, has run for President twice before, and, probably, was cheated out of the office, at least once.

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Offline Fishrrman

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Re: A Leftist Nationalist in Mexico? OK
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2018, 01:37:29 am »
Mexico is quickly going the way of Venezuela.
Or... may it topple over even further to become "Somalia in the Western Hemisphere..."
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Re: A Leftist Nationalist in Mexico? OK
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2018, 01:47:12 am »
Better build the damn wall fast.
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Re: A Leftist Nationalist in Mexico? OK
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2018, 02:39:02 am »
Mexico's a cauldron right now.

Even though this Lopez Obrador is a leftist, if he can bring some sort of peace and start cleaning up corruption, that might be better than the conventional governments they have had with corruption such a part of their administration.  I'm not positive what kind of connotation leftist has with Lopez Obrador, I don't know if it means Hugo Chavez/Castroite Marxist philosophy.
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Re: A Leftist Nationalist in Mexico? OK
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2018, 02:57:30 am »
Quote from: TomSea on July 01, 2018, 02:39:02 am
Even though this Lopez Obrador is a leftist...


Amselem suggests that may not be so, based on Obrado's past. We will see.

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