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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 03 February 2017

MEXICO: López Obrador to the fore

While most of Mexico’s political class has been rocked by Donald Trump’s coming to power in the US, Andrés Manuel López Obrador is thriving on the new political and diplomatic milieu. The leader of the radical left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) sees Trump’s tough and confrontational stance on Mexico as providing him with the opportunity he needs to be third time lucky. After narrowly missing out on the presidency in his last two attempts, López Obrador is leading early polls ahead of the 2018 contest, and he laid out his plan of governance this week while launching a new book.

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