The Americas | Mexico’s presidential election

Andrés Manuel López Obrador will haunt his successor

Mexico’s next president will struggle against gangs, poverty and migration

A hand and a voting card going into a ballot box with a Mexican flag in the background.
Illustration: Vartika Sharma
|Mexico City

The scourge of the blockbuster remake has come for the world’s seventh-largest democracy. Mexico’s second presidential debate took place (appropriately) at Churubusco film studios in Mexico City, the capital, on April 28th. The main question was whether Mexicans want a sequel to the six-year feature that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has scripted, directed and starred in.

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