No doubt fearing that history will repeat itself and he’ll be dislodged – as he was in 2006 – from his frontrunner position at the last minute, left-winger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (often referred to as AMLO) has accused several leading companies in Mexico of pressuring their employers into voting for Ricardo Anaya of the National Action Party (PAN) in the race for the presidency.

While at number 24 Mexico ranks fairly high on the U.N. World Happiness Report, a report by a venerable public hospital in Guadalajara has found that about 10 percent of the country’s population suffers from some form of depression. 

With her support hovering just over three percent, former First Lady and federal congresswoman Margarita Zavala has bowed out of the race for the Mexican presidency.

The prospect of leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador becoming the next president of Mexico is making the country’s business community nervous.

The case of the three missing film students has served as an unwelcome reminder of the 43 students kidnapped in Guerrero in September 2014 – an ugly stain on the national consciousness. 

In just a little more than two months Mexicans will go to the polls to decide who runs the country for the next six years from Los Pinos.