Mexicans have choice between dark past and brighter future

If the ‘demagogic’ Andrés Manuel López Obrador is elected president on July 1, he will undo years of democratic reform and of economic openness, says Andrés Martinez.

Mexicans have choice between dark past and brighter future

If the ‘demagogic’ Andrés Manuel López Obrador is elected president on July 1, he will undo years of democratic reform and of economic openness, says Andrés Martinez.

The next two months will determine whether Mexico turns its back on a generation-long project of opening its economy to the world and its political system to democratic change. The decision rests with Mexican voters — and, to some extent, with US president, Donald Trump.

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