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    Fed up with the status quo, Mexicans embrace a seasoned leftist and his vision for 'radical transformation'

    by Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times Jun 26, 2018 7 minutes

    CHIHUAHUA, Mexico - Twice-failed Mexican presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador looked out at the supporters packed into the main plaza in this northern desert city to hear his vision for what he calls "radical transformation."

    Just a few years ago, when he came to Chihuahua to gin up support for the National Regeneration Movement, the leftist political party he founded, Lopez Obrador was lucky to draw even 50 people to his events. Now he was being treated like a rock star, his speech broadcast on a massive screen and periodically interrupted by bursts of white confetti and thousands of fans chanting his name.

    "We are going to change the regime," he told them. "There will be peace and tranquility in the country."

    If the polls are right, Lopez Obrador will be Mexico's next president. A week before the July 1 vote, the 64-year-old former Mexico City mayor, widely known by his initials, AMLO, is beating his closest rival by as much as 25 percentage points.

    He owes his remarkable rise to sheer persistence - he has essentially been running for president

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