Populist Mayor Rankles Some in Mexico

Populist Mayor Rankles Some in Mexico

Mexico's political, church and business elite are expressing concern that Latin America's rising tide of charismatic leftists may soon sweep into Mexico.


The warnings are clearly aimed at Mexico City's free-spending mayor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who leads the polls for the 2006 presidential race.


"Here come the messiahs who offer the earth and the sky ... populists with magic recipes for everything," President Vicente Fox said recently. "In the end they are only cheating people and taking money away from hard working people."

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"The little that is given to the poor, they always call that populism or paternalism," Lopez Obrador said, "and the large amounts handed out to the rich, that's development and bailout programs. That's an old trick."

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/03/24/international/i112756S29.DTL

Long and interesting article... the left continues to spread in Latin America, and it seems that won't change for a long time. :)

think of how that would make us look.

"Here come the messiahs who offer the earth and the sky ... populists with magic recipes for everything," President Vicente Fox said recently. "In the end they are only cheating people and taking money away from hard working people."

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What he means is that these "messiahs" may kick some corporate ass and stop the practice of slave labor.

Bring on the messiahs!

but something tells me that Condi is not being 100% sincere here...

Church officials, and even U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, say they would have no problem with a leftist government in Mexico.