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Can Mexico's leftist candidate win or will fraud beat him again?
Mexican presidential frontrunner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
As we mark the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, JOHN WIGHT reflects on the enormity of the US decision to drop the atom bombs
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Labour councillor PAUL DONOVAN wonders why the right-wing party gets so much more media attention than it seems to merit
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
WITH Mexico’s elections coming to a close on July 1, left-wing presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador — popularly known as Amlo — is the favoured candidate by a wide margin.
A recent poll by the Mexican daily newspaper Reforma says Amlo, who is running for the centre-left National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and its coalition partner the Workers’ Party, is supported by 52 per cent of voters and is at least 20 per cent ahead of his two rival candidates on the right.
The coalition is seeking to change the capitalist neoliberal model, imposed on the country in the 1980s by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which has destroyed the country’s industrial base and agriculture and benefited a minority while impoverishing the majority.
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