The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Mexico’s financial markets have registered calm in the aftermath of the victory by leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, despite some earlier predictions that economic disruption might occur.
Is it possible that Mexico’s next president can forge a good relationship with Donald Trump despite the pair’s diverging ideological positions on most matters?
Citizens are getting a three-day respite from the incessant campaigning in the run-up to Sunday’s presidential elections.
Barely five years after its affiliation as an official party, Morena (Movimiento Regeneración Nacional) has become Mexico’s dominant political force.
Mexico will not have to wait long to get an indication of how the nation votes on Sunday.
“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.
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.
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.
