{"id":367875,"date":"2018-07-03T19:33:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T18:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mexicos-leftist-president-elect-promises-sweeping-changes\/"},"modified":"2018-07-03T19:33:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T18:33:12","slug":"mexicos-leftist-president-elect-promises-sweeping-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mexicos-leftist-president-elect-promises-sweeping-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s Leftist President-Elect Promises Sweeping Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In a landslide, voters have elected Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador to be Mexico\u2019s next president. The former mayor of Mexico City \u2014 who is known as AMLO \u2014 will become Mexico\u2019s first leftist president in decades. On Monday, L\u00f3pez Obrador and President Donald Trump discussed immigration and trade in a phone call. Trump called on Mexico\u2019s president-elect to collaborate on border security and<span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"caps\">NAFTA<\/span>, telling reporters, \u201cI think he\u2019s going to try and help us with the border. We have unbelievably bad border laws, immigration laws, the weakest in the world, laughed at by everybody in the world. And Mexico has very strong immigration laws, so they can help us.\u201d We speak with John Ackerman and Irma Sandoval in Mexico City. Irma Sandoval is a professor and director of the Center for the Study of Corruption at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is set to become comptroller general in President-elect Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s government. John Ackerman is the editor of the Mexican Law Review and a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is also a columnist for Proceso magazine and La Jornada newspaper.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">AMY<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"caps\">GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>We begin today\u2019s show in Mexico, where voters have elected Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador to be Mexico\u2019s next president. The former mayor of Mexico City, who is known by his initials<span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"caps\">AMLO<\/span>, will become Mexico\u2019s first leftist president in decades. L\u00f3pez Obrador ran an anti-corruption, anti-violence campaign and has vowed to expand pensions for the elderly, boost spending for social programs and increase grants for students. On Monday, L\u00f3pez Obrador and President Donald Trump had about a half-hour phone conversation, according to Trump, discussing immigration and trade. This is President Trump calling on Mexico\u2019s president-elect to collaborate on border security and<span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"caps\">NAFTA<\/span>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">PRESIDENT<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"caps\">DONALD<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"caps\">TRUMP<\/span>:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>I think he\u2019s going to try and help us with the border. We have unbelievably bad border laws, immigration&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/mexicos-leftist-president-elect-promises-sweeping-changes\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a landslide, voters have elected Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador to be Mexico\u2019s next president. The former mayor of Mexico City \u2014 who is known as AMLO \u2014 will become Mexico\u2019s first leftist president in decades. On Monday, L\u00f3pez Obrador and President Donald Trump discussed immigration and trade in a phone call. Trump called on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-367875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}