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Mexico’s Presidential Race: López Obrador has a 25% Lead, How Reliable are The Polls?

López Obrador of the MORENA party is polling at 51 %, weeks before the July 1st election. We ask professor John M. Ackerman if such a lead is sustainable if PRI and PAN form an…

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Mexico’s Economic Growth Failure: Decades in the Making

As Mexicans get ready to vote for a new president on Sunday, they will probably punish the political class that led the country into a 30-year economic slump. CEPR’s Mark Weisbrot analyzes Mexico’s economic performance…

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Left Candidate Lopez Obrador Leads Mexican Presidential Race by an Insurmountable Margin

Mexico’s July 1 presidential election is likely to lead to a historic result as the center-left candidate Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador leads the race by 25 percentage points over his closest rival. We talk to…

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Expectations Skyhigh for Mexico’s Newly Inaugurated President Lopez Obrador

Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico’s new center-left president was inaugurated and outlined policies that were more ambitious than what he campaigned on, says Laura Carlsen, of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy…

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