Is Mexico’s Populist Lopez Obrador Still the Presidential Favorite in 2018? (WPR)

Gubernatorial elections in three Mexican states last Sunday were supposed to show Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s viability as a candidate in next year’s presidential race. Instead they checked the ambitions of the brash left-leaning populist aiming to succeed outgoing President Enrique Pena Nieto in 2018 as Lopez Obrador’s party, the National Regeneration Movement, known as MORENA, lost in all three states. READ MORE

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