The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
“I won’t let you down. I won’t let you down,” Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador yelled into a microphone as thousands of his supporters packed Mexico City’s giant Zocalo square to celebrate the veteran politician’s landslide victory in Sunday’s presidential election.
Last year, the federal legislature moved the country closer to legalization of medical marijuana.
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.
Citizens are getting a three-day respite from the incessant campaigning in the run-up to Sunday’s presidential elections.
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.
Mexico will not have to wait long to get an indication of how the nation votes on Sunday.
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.
Since U.S. President Donald Trump took office, the number of Mexican students who have chosen to study in Canada has risen by 16 percent.
The prospect of leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador becoming the next president of Mexico is making the country’s business community nervous.
