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Controversial pro-Obrador video titillates, outrages

The bit of political vaudeville known as “La Niña Bien,” a music video in which a “Good Girl” – code, in Mexico, for a rich but somewhat gauche young woman – proclaims her intention to vote for leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), has been distracting a susceptible Mexican public for almost a week.

Migrant caravan draws hostile Trump tweets

The yearly “Via Crucis” (stations of the cross) migrant caravan, whose participants are mainly comprised of citizens from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador seeking asylum in Mexico and/or the United States, has received unlikely publicity from the world’s most powerful person, U.S. President Donald Trump.