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AMLO’s Election: Latin America’s Biggest Stories of the 2010s

By Benjamin Russell

Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s persistence paid off, but his predecessors’ incompetence delivered the prize.

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WHO WAS INVOLVED: Andrés Manuel López Obrador (widely known as AMLO), elected president in 2018 after defeats in 2006 and 2012; his predecessor, Enrique Peña Nieto.

WHAT HAPPENED: Many believed AMLO was headed for the political wilderness after his election loss in 2012. But six years of glad-handing potential voters up and down Mexico gave him his groove back. The former Mexico City...

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