What will Mexico's AMLO do?

Mexico’s president-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, AKA AMLO, cruised to victory in an election last weekend with 53% of the vote.

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Andrew Manuel Lopez Obrador: an unknown quantity
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Who is Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador? asks Pamela Starr in The New York Times. Mexico's president-elect cruised to victory in an election last weekend with 53% of the vote. AMLO, as he is universally known, has been labelled everything from "populist, leftist, authoritarian and nationalist" to "pragmatist" and "fiscal conservative". The truth is that he is "all of the above".

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