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| Caribbean-Latin America |
| Lopez Obrador sworn in as Mexico president |
| 2018-12-02 |
| [Al Jazeera] Former Mexico City mayor ran three times before winning presidency in a historic landslide in July. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 over the past 20 years, Mexico's per capita GDP has grown much faster than that of the US - much of this is a result of NAFTA and investment in Mexico by US, Euro and Chinese companies of course there are still major areas of poverty and much of the middle class resents the wealthy AMLO probably doesn't understand much at all about what makes nations prosper (resembles Alexandria OC in some ways. If he can concentrate of reducing official corruption, especially in the police and industrial regulation, Mexico will do very well. If he gets into more socialist stuff, it will not |
| Posted by: lord garth 2018-12-02 09:19 |
| #1 SDUT article, takeaway quote from a Tijuana At a restaurant just off Avenida Revolución in Tijuana, Diego Gonzalez, 19, said he’s looking for action right away from AMLO — not just big promises that never get fulfilled. “This president is very different in the way he thinks,” Gonzalez said. “It’s going to be a little bit of a change. He wants to cause a disruption.” Gonzalez said the economy should be the president’s prime focus. He said he feels very little pity for the Central American caravan. “It was stupid of them to come here. It was never going to work,” Gonzalez said. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-12-02 08:08 |