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The biggest story in Mexico right now has nothing to do with US President Donald Trump's proposed border wall.
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The biggest story in Mexico right now has nothing to do with US President Donald Trump's proposed border wall.
Mexico swore in leftist leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, Saturday before a crowd that included world leaders and a strong majority in both houses of Congress.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other top US officials traveled to Mexico Friday for talks with the country's president-elect, the first high-level meeting between the Trump administration and incoming leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador amid heightened tensions between the two neighbors and calls from Mexican leaders for the US to reunite families separated at the border.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador made his way to Mexico City's National Palace as a passenger in a Volkswagon sedan, as photographers riding on the back seats of a swarm of motorcycles tried to capture an image of Mexico's next president.
An anti-establishment, long-shot candidate whom experts say ran a nearly "flawless" campaign but whose critics fear might rule like Venezuela's authoritarian leader, Hugo Chavez, will become Mexico's next president.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has declared victory in Mexico's presidential election, as preliminary results showed the leftist veteran politician, who had presented himself as an agent of change, secured a landslide win.
Mexican voters headed to the polls Sunday to choose their next president and thousands more elected officials in a historic and consequential election marred by violence.