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Andrés Manuel López Obrador (born November 13, 1952), also known as AMLO or El Peje, is a Mexican politician who held the position of Head of Government of the Federal District (roughly, Mayor of Mexico City) from 2000 to 2005, before resigning in July 2005 to contend the 2006 presidential election, representing the Coalition for the Good of All, a PRD-led coalition that also includes the Convergence party and the Labor Party.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador appears to be gaining ground going into the final month of Mexico's presidential race, polls indicated Thursday, and analysts said student protests might be eroding front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto's aura of invincibility.
The protests have dogged Pena Nieto's campaign over the past two weeks, with demonstrators claiming that a win by his Institutional Revolution Party, which held the presidency for 71 years, would mark a return to Mexico's authoritarian past."Pena Nieto is deflating," said Lopez Obrador, who had long run third in the polls behind Pena Nieto and the current governing party's candidate, Josefina Vazquez Mota. At one point, Pena Nieto led the two by 15 to 20 percentage points and the race had been considered all but over.But a poll released Thursday by the newspaper Reforma said Pena Nieto led with only 29 percent support, with Lopez Obrador close at 26 percent while Vazquez Mota fell to 18 percent. The poll was conducted in late May and...MEXICO CITY (AP) — The leftist politician who narrowly lost Mexico's last presidential election says he will run again in 2012.Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador cried frau...
Rivals of the front-runner in Mexico's presidential race attacked him Sunday night as a liar with ties to corrupt figures in the country's former ruling party, filli...
The front-runner in Mexico's presidential race fended off rivals' attempts to paint him as a liar with corrupt backers, emerging from the first of two debates with a...
Who won Mexico's presidential debate? According to the media and Twitter frenzy, at least, the victor wasn't any candidate but a curvaceous model in a tight gown who...
For a man whose anger and inflexibility may have cost him his dreams of the presidency, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is surprisingly calm and friend...
Josefina Vazquez Mota exulted in the explosion of camera flashes as a pumped-up crowd cheered her victory in a bruising three-way race to become the ruling party's p...
Mexico's scheduling conflict between a presidential candidates' debate and a soccer quarterfinals match got ugly Tuesday, amid accusations of skullduggery, greed and...
Mexico's scheduling conflict between a presidential candidates' debate and a soccer quarterfinals match got ugly Tuesday, amid accusations of skullduggery, greed and...
Mexican President Felipe Calderon was sitting down with Cuba's Raul Castro on Wednesday to strengthen economic cooperation and further repair a relationship that has...
Mexico's presidential front-runner huddled with advisers Thursday to respond to a negative campaign ad by the ruling party that calls him a "liar" and strikes at the...
A video "mockumentary" that shows children as kidnappers, corrupt cops and drug traffickers sparked a fierce debate in violence-torn Mexico on Thursday, with some pe...
Mexico's governing party is trailing badly in the presidential race and it's unveiling an attack ad aimed at front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto, whose slogan is "I know...
Shortly after sunrise last month in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, police found 14 butchered bodies in a van outside city hall, a salvo in a seesawing battle of ho...
Thousands of university students marched through central Mexico City on Wednesday to protest media coverage that they say favors the candidate of the former ruling p...
A new poll in Mexico says the second- and third-place candidates in the presidential race are running neck and neck — but remain far behind the candidate of the coun...
The front-running candidate in the race for Mexico's July 1 presidential election pledged on Monday to respect transparency and plurality if elected, things his Inst...
Thousands of college-age demonstrators marched down Mexico City's main boulevard Saturday to protest a possible return of the old ruling Institutional Revolutionary ...
Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading to the Texas border in what appeared to b...
Mexico's supreme court has narrowly voted to let the Mexico City government keep a piece of land but orders it to pay the owners. The ruling ends a dispute that near...
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