Mexican front-runner, ruling party candidate start campaigns
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Front-running candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrado has opened his campaign for the July 1 presidential election in Ciudad Juarez, the border city that launched some of Mexico's key resistance struggles.
Lopez Obrador depicts his third run at the presidency as a historic battle against corruption and entrenched elites, on a par with the resistance to the French invasion of 1862-1867 and the 1910-1917 revolution. Ciudad Juarez served as a base in both.
Ruling party candidate Jose Antonio Meade launched his campaign Sunday in the colonial city of Merida, the capital of a state his Institutional Revolutionary Party hopes to retain, with nine governorships at stake.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Meade is third in the polls. He alluded to Lopez Obrador, saying, "Don't let them take away the future of our children with false promises."