Andrés Manuel López Obrador will haunt his successor
Mexico’s next president will struggle against gangs, poverty and migration
The scourge of the blockbuster remake has come for the world’s seventh-largest democracy. Mexico’s second presidential debate took place (appropriately) at Churubusco film studios in Mexico City, the capital, on April 28th. The main question was whether Mexicans want a sequel to the six-year feature that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has scripted, directed and starred in.
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