Editor's note

Andrés Manuel López Obrador is Mexico’s resident rabble rouser, the populist former mayor of Mexico City who has narrowly lost — and vehemently contested — two presidential bids. He is sure to run again next year, and his MORENA party’s strong showing in Mexico State’s recent gubernatorial election suggest that his chances of winning are good.

But López Obrador’s firebrand style and radical policy proposals have long made markets (and many Mexicans), jittery, writes Salvador Vázquez del Mercado, especially in the age of Donald Trump. Could a more carefully calibrated López Obrador become Mexico’s first left-wing president?

Catesby Holmes

Global Commissioning Editor

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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), right, with Delfina Gomez of his MORENA party. Gómez narrowly lost the Mexico State governor’s race on June 4 but gave her party a boost for the presidency. Carlos Jasso/REUTERS

In Mexico, a firebrand leftist provokes the powers that be – including Donald Trump

Salvador Vázquez del Mercado, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Can Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexican politics' long-time left-wing rabble rouser, finally win the presidency?

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