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...López Obrador, who idolises Cárdenas, has tried to ignore the issue of the drug trade as far as possible despite stubbornly high homicide levels topping the list of voters’ concerns....
...That was the year when Cárdenas, one of López Obrador’s heroes, expropriated foreign oil companies to create national oil champion Pemex....
...But in style, Mr López Obrador’s approach has some similarities to that of Mr Bolsonaro....
...Pemex occupies a special place in the Mexican psyche because of its creation as a state monopoly by Lázaro Cárdenas, one of Mr López Obrador’s heroes, who expropriated the assets of US and British oil companies...
...Mr López Obrador is a man with a vision....
...“Nature has now stepped in,” said Gustavo Cárdenas, a geographer and hydrographer in Panama who studies climate change. The rainy season is expected to start in earnest by late July....
...It’s a new rescue of Petróleos Mexicanos,” he said, referring to the 1938 oil nationalisation by one of his héroes, President Lázaro Cárdenas....
...I hope I am wrong,” tweeted Enrique Cárdenas, a professor at the Iberoamericana University in Puebla....
...Mr López Obrador inherited a country with murders at an all-time high and has begun daily security co-ordination meetings to try to drive the numbers down....
...It is also a growing headache for Mexico’s president-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who takes office on December 1....
...Mr López Obrador has rarely travelled abroad and his frequent homages to other historical figures such as President Lázaro Cárdenas, who nationalised the oil industry in 1938, has nonplussed financial markets...
...But some fear that Mr López Obrador, who five years ago warned oil majors that “Mexico’s oil . . . belongs to the people” and who also hero worships Lázaro Cárdenas, the president who nationalised Mexico...
...That anger led to a breakaway from the PRI, and the leftwing candidacy of Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, son of one of the most beloved PRI presidents from the 1930s....
...And in 1938, Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas nationalised oil and other companies — mainly US ones....
...litre of spending out of a pint pot of government money is through better management and public governance — that elusive grail which is “a bit about individuals and a lot about institutions”, as Mauricio Cárdenas...
...“Ted Cruz’s numbers just changed the geometry,” said Mr Lopez....
...There is no doubt about it,” says Mr Lopez. “But a surprising group is looking at Marco very seriously.”...
...Héctor López Cruz, the Tabasco municipal candidate, belonged to the ruling PRI party....
...communities: through extorting avocado and lime farmers; taking a cut from the sale price of tortillas, meat and taxis; muscling in on mining and shipping iron ore to China through control of the Lázaro Cárdenas...
...“Some see private sector participation as a magic wand,’’ Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, the son of Lázaro Cárdenas and a former presidential candidate, said last week....
...And Mr Peña Nieto has insisted that this constitutional underpinning of the 1938 nationalisation of Mexico’s oil sector by then president Lázaro Cárdenas will remain in place....
...On top of the prosecutor’s probe, Mauricio Cárdenas, Colombia’s finance minister, on Wednesday said he would investigate Interbolsa for possible tax evasion through the use of a Curaçao-listed investment...
...“Cárdenas copies the slogan ‘One Mexico for All’ used in PAN advertising,” Mr Madero railed on his Twitter account....
...Bernabé Unda, regional industry secretary, was once head of the big shipyard in Bilbao and recalls the time when it had 5,000 employees....
...The nationalist message, delivered in a schoolboy’s voice, crackles through a speaker and rises out of the concrete yard of Lázaro Cárdenas Technical Secondary School No. 35, in the working class neighbourhood...
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