Mexico's weird presidential self-recall
Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has always done things his way, down to a recall referendum against himself that he called. We get into the why
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Show Notes
Earlier this month, Mexico had an election. But it wasn’t business as usual. The vote was a first in Mexico — a recall referendum on the country’s president. The person pushing to recall the president … was the president himself.
Today we get into the curious history of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Read the full transcript here.
Host: Gustavo Arellano
Guests: L.A. Times foreign correspondents Leila Miller and Kate Linthicum
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