Lopez Obrador to be Sworn in as Mexico’s New President

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador becomes Mexico’s new president Saturday. He enters office in a powerful position with a coalition that controls both houses of Congress. Lopez Obrador has promised a more austere administration than that of his predecessor Enrique Pena Nieto. Among other things he has said he will sell the presidential plane. At 65, Lopez Obrador has been a mainstay of Mexican politics. As a young man, he was a member of the center-right Institutional Revolutionary Party,...

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