MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has upset the country’s Jewish community by accusing one of its members — a critic of the government — of thinking like Adolf Hitler. Lopez Obrador hit out Wednesday at newspaper columnist Carlos Alazraki, equating his “Hitlerian” ideas with those of the Nazi dictator. The Central Committee of the Jewish Community of Mexico issued a statement in response saying it was “unacceptable” to compare […]
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Mexican leftist closes in on presidency with anti-graft message
by Maria Lorente © Agence France-Presse MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Fed up with rampant corruption and violence, Mexicans vote Sunday in historic elections that look set to punish the political establishment and deliver the presidency to leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Leading by more than 20 points in the polls, the sharp-tongued, silver-haired politician known as “AMLO” looks poised to become the next figure on the growing global list of anti-establishment candidates swept into office […]





