Word: obrador
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According to a poll conducted earlier this month by the Mexican newspaper Reforma, Calderón is trailing closely behind former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, his main opponent, by a seven percent margin...
...Mexico, July 2 The race is extremely close, but all polls show the front-runner to be former Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (who goes by the acronym AMLO). Still, some put his lead as low as 1% while others have it as high as 7%. His left-wing, anti-U.S. positions (which he describes nevertheless as "respectful") have given his candidacy momentum, especially in light of the unproductiveness of President Vicente Fox's "amigo" policies towards the big neighbor to the north. Fox's own party, the right-wing Partido Accion Nacional (PAN), repudiated the President...
...ignored. Plans for liberalizing immigration went back to the drawing board. "One day Bush was our mejor amigo, and the next he wouldn't take our phone calls," says a former Fox aide. Now the distinctly anti-U.S. former mayor of Mexico City, Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador, is the front runner for the July 2 presidential election. Being a friend of America has become a political liability...
...embattled mayor, who has declared his candidacy for the 2006 presidential election, is facing charges leveled by Mexican President Vicente Fox’s conservative government that Obrador ignored a court order to halt construction of a city road in a disputed location...
...We’re not supporters of Obrador at all,” she said. “Some people actually oppose...