Andrew Golis

The Guardian has a profile of Lopez Obrador, the left-wing former mayor of Mexico City who may be on the verge of becoming President of Mexico:

Depending on who you talk to, the presidential candidate, who holds a narrow lead in the opinion polls ahead of Sunday’s Mexican elections, is the great hope of the downtrodden, a messianic danger to stability or a crafty pragmatist. This son of a shopkeeper from the marshy backwaters of south-eastern Mexico is striking a chord and inciting discord in a country where half the population is poor and the richest 10% own 45% of the wealth.

While my Spanish isn’t good enough to understand much of it, I also found a video of Lopez Obrador on YouTube that at least gives you a sense of his temperament (it’s amazing how much can be understood about the person without following many of the words).

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