Mexico election: leftist Amlo set for historic landslide victory
A baseball-loving left-wing nationalist who has vowed to crack down on corruption, rein in Mexico’s war on drugs and rule for the poor has been elected president of Latin America’s second-largest economy. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a silver-haired 64-year-old who is best known as Amlo and counts Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn among his friends, was […]
Mexico votes for new president, leftist rebel favored to win
Mexicans lined up to vote for a new president on Sunday in an election tipped to hand power to an anti-establishment outsider who would inject a new dose of nationalism into government and could sharpen divisions with U.S. President Donald Trump. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor, has led opinion polls throughout […]