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CITY OF MEXICO.- The mythical Azteca stadium, crowded with people and almost empty seats, rises, just announced that Andrés Manuel López Obrador arrived on stage and declared him triumphant: "President, President!" His people called. A second later, they changed the lyrics, but not the air: "It's an honor, to be with Obrador!", They sang.
López Obrador, AMLO, as he is known here, took a few minutes to a last popular swim by walking between a fence in the playing field at the stage where he gave the last speech of his campaign. He shook hands, received kisses and slaps and took pictures with his people who had filled the stadium. For them, AMLO has promised them a revolution again.
"We are about to begin the fourth transformation in the history of
Mexico
and to make dreams of many Mexicans a reality, "says López Obrador, it is simply a peaceful and orderly change, he promised, but also radical
"Let no one be afraid. Radical comes from the root. And this transformation will consist precisely in uprooting the corrupt regime of injustice and privilege, "he says
. Azteca witnessed the movement created by López Obrador over the 18 years that the Mexican presidency has continued. the people gave a message: Sunday, AMLO will go for his third attempt at the presidency, and everything indicates that it will be the definitive. For its supporters, it is "the hope", the "change" that they yearn for, but their detractors – middle of the country – they see their rise with panic: they fear a decline of populism, to which Mexico has been immunized.
"AMLO is a Hurricane", defines Humberto Guillén Gurrieta, 63, a retired engineer, while waiting for his candidate in the stands of the stadium. "It has won the sympathy of the Mexican people.It has been won with the effort of working to know all the people of the republic, their peoples and their traditions, the respect of their customs, and the misery that we have left previous governments, "he continues.
None of the presidential candidates has traveled as much as López Obrador . The historian Enrique Krauze put it years ago, in his first attempt at the presidency, a title that remained: "Tropical Messiah". Raised at the PRI, then leader of the PRD, AMLO has managed to position itself as the face of change in this election. the way ahead of the technocrats who have ruled the country for the last three decades, their message against corruption has been at the center of their campaign, and on several occasions he has accused the "mafia of power" and promised to "cleanse the government "from top to bottom corruption, how the stairs are swept. "
" It will be a government of the people, for the people and with the people, "he anticipated in the Aztecs ..
AMLO promised an austere government He will not travel in the presidential plane and will not live in the official residence.He said that he will charge half of that of the current president, Enrique Peña Nieto, who will suspend the pensions of all exmandatarios and that his government will have a zero deficit. is saved, he said, will be destined to finance development.
His disciples repeat their memories the words "change" and "hope". None of the warnings are attacks from enemies – "the mafia of power" – who want to demonize their leader, whom they see as a fighter. They denote the corruption, inequality and violence that plague Mexico, and feel that's the time. Hope is immeasurable.
"We hope that this man will bring light, peace, love and tranquility to this much needed Mexican people," said 59-year-old Gabriela Torres Cevillo, who was "whole". life "with López Obrador.
" The people are waking up, they realize. if wounded, so bad, so economically humiliated, there are people who are starving and the children of these unfortunate people are in Europe, "he complains." People have come to their reality, the Mexican people have touched the Basically, we do not want more authoritarian, murderous and mediocre governments, "he concludes.
López Obrador has brought together a diverse movement, followed by young people, elders, evangelists, the far left – the Labor Party – and the far right – the Party of Social Encounters (PES) – who live together in their coalition "Together, we will make history." Businessmen look at it with mistrust: opponents fear radical turnaround to be fatal
Marta Magdaleno, a 28-year-old lawyer who volunteered for the campaign, thinks she is the best president in Mexico may have: "For us it is hope. the fear. "
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