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Hugo Chavez wannabe will agitate stateside on immigration

Mexican leftist politician plans to interfere in American politics

By Matthew Vadum ——--February 10, 2017

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-- BombThrowers--Mexican left-wing presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is coming to los Estados Unidos to rile up illegal aliens and whine about President Donald Trump's "poisonous" rhetoric. The man who has a good chance of winning Mexico's 2018 elections said he intends to visit the U.S. on the weekend to meet with Mexicans and Americans to "confront" President Trump "with respect, with firmness." Lopez Obrador dismissed Trump, saying he is "not interested in exercising power, but pursuing power and nothing more."
He said "we are being persecuted" by Trump. "It's all a political strategy, so that is precisely why I'm going to the United States, I'm going to talk to businessmen and migrants from all over the world, but I'm very interested in talking to Americans," he said. The Hill reports:
Lopez Obrador narrowly lost the Mexican presidential elections in 2006 and 2012, and is viewed by many analysts as the main domestic beneficiary of Trump's aggressive stance toward Mexico. A former mayor of Mexico City, Lopez Obrador is a leftist, nationalist politician who at times has been compared to former Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. But he has also gained support from some in the business and traditional political communities, including billionaire Alfonso Romo and former Secretary of the Interior Esteban Moctezuma.
Lopez Obrador is expected to arrive in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon.

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Matthew Vadum——

Matthew Vadum,  matthewvadum.blogspot.com, is an investigative reporter.

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