VOX POPULIST

摘要

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador may be a left-winger who wants to vastly expand social programs, build a bullet train to the U.S. and keep bloated oil giant Pemex part of the state. But Mexico's leading presidential candidate is one Latin American populist who's as economically pragmatic as he is politically provocative. "The political economy has to be managed without ideologies." So states Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, then mayor of Mexico City and the probable future president of Mexico. During an interview this summer with Institutional Investor in his mayoral office overlooking the Zocalo, the city's vast central plaza (see box, page 82), he continues: "Management of the political economy must be technical and professional, not ideological."