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| Mexico's Next President - Chavez lite |
| 2005-04-26 |
| Via The Corner: Mexico City's socialist mayor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, beat the rap yesterday and is back on the job. This is important because he is expected to run for president next year and win--if he's on the ballot. The legal dispute was a contrived attempt by his political opponents to prevent that from happening, and it appears to have failed spectacularly, with nearly 1 million supporters marching on Sunday and federal prosecutor dropping the charges against him. What this means is that come next summer, President Bush will lose his compadre, Vicente Fox, and instead have to deal with the candidate of the Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD in Spanish), a sort of Hugo Chavez-lite. Among other things, this is not a guy who's going to cooperate with the president on a guestworker program. He's also likely to push expanded dual citizenship for people of Mexican origin in the United States, since so many immigrants here are supporters of the socialist PRD. |
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