Will the real Andrés Manuel López Obrador please stand up?
Questions surround the front-runner in the presidential election
EACH weekday morning at 6.30am, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the left-wing mayor of Mexico City, gives a press conference. Nowadays, these affairs feature fewer queries about traffic congestion or water shortages and many about economic and foreign policy. A presidential election is not due until July 2006. But only two questions matter in Mexican politics today. Can anyone stop Mr López Obrador from becoming the next president? And if he wins, who will he most resemble: a responsible social democrat like Brazil's Lula or a reckless, authoritarian populist like Venezuela's Hugo Chávez?
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Will the real Andrés Manuel López Obrador please stand up?”
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