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In Mexico

A new revolution in Mexico: Sick of corruption and of Trump, voters embrace the maverick leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. What turns an outsider into a president? Maya Averbuch on the strange case of Mexico’s formerly defeated Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has promised Mexicans a new country — can he deliver? (and more) Daniel Adler R.K. on promise and populism in Mexico. Ioan Grillo on why Mexico is swinging left. Alma Guillermoprieto on Mexico: A voice against the darkness. To be accidental is to be human: Carlos Alberto Sanchez and Robert Eli Sanchez on Emilio Uranga and the philosophy of Mexicanness. Alvaro Enrigue reviews When Montezuma Met Cortes: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History by Matthew Restall.