by Victor Davis Hanson via National Review
Mexico in just a few days could elect one of its more anti-American figures in recent memory, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Obrador has often advanced the idea that a strangely aggrieved Mexico has the right to monitor the status of its citizens living illegally in the United States. Lately, he trumped that notion of entitlement by assuring fellow Mexicans that they have a “human right” to enter the United States as they please.
Daniel Di Martino, E21
Mexicans, hoping for change, have elected Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as president for a six-year term. López Obrador is a socialist who pledges to “adjust” the free market model and implement new social programs. His election poses a risk to the resolution of the Venezuelan crisis and to trade with the United States.
López Obrador’s election is part of a global populist wave that has shaken the world but runs counter to the sweep of center-right victories across the Americas. Read more here....
BY ASIA TIMES STAFF
Despite Lopez Obrador’s conciliatory tone, the radically left-wing, anti-Trump president’s margin of victory gives him a crushing mandate to do battle
quoting Victor Davis Hanson via The Federalist
The real danger isn’t that Mexico elected a left-wing populist as president, it’s that the new president won’t be able to govern his country.