Fighting for a new Mexico

305 views · Published 14 August 2018 · 7:20 · Indexed 26 September 2026

Channel: The Newsmakers · 2018 · People & Blogs

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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador promised to be a man of the people. So, voters didn't just make AMLO the next president, they're literally taking him at his word. Thousands have been turning up at his headquarters. A nurse looking for work, a mother trying to get her son out of jail, a student needing help getting into college. But others say he's a leftist radical in the mold of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. Randolph Nogel begins our special series on Mexico with a report from the capital which has not been immune to the country's sky-high murder rate and economic downturn.

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