In Mexico, income inequality is rallying cry for ousting establishment

Andrés Manuel López Obrador has little to say about the drug war, apart from vague talk about giving some criminals an amnesty, writes columnist Gwynne Dyer. What he concentrates on is inequality.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the former mayor of Mexico City, has been likened to Bernie Sanders, given his promise to address income inequality. Photograph courtesy of Andrés Manuel López Obrador's Twitter

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 28, 2018

LONDON, U.K.–Almost all the foreign coverage of this Sunday’s Mexican election focuses on the drug wars and the murder rate: 30,000 killed last year, with the numbers expected to be even higher this year. But there are 127 million Mexicans, so it’s not really all...

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