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1/3/2018 This Politician Wants To Eliminate All Of Mexico's Crime. His Plan To Do It Has People Livid.Read NowAndres Manuel Lopez Obrador is currently the leading candidate for Mexico's presidency, but his latest proposition may lead to a change of heart from voters...Overview
With presidential elections coming up this November in Mexico, competition for voters has just begun, and all possible candidates are racing to win votes. The president of the National Regeneration Movement in Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador, is currently in the lead, with an 84% approval rating. Recently, Lopez-Obrador made a controversial proposal in Guerrero state, claiming that he would "eradicate violence three years into his mandate". This is a bold statement, made in a very poorly chosen setting, as Guerroro state has been the hardest hit during a drug war "that has claimed an estimated 200,000 lives since 2006". Additionally, he proposed giving amnesty to drug criminals, which was met with public opposition, and a open letter from poet Javier Sicilia. In his letter, Sicilia writes "[how]Can you ask a country where criminals continue killing, disappearing people, extorting, because official corruption has given them a free pass to impunity, to forget?”. Fellow candidates also called Lopez-Obrador out, such as José Antonio Meade, who claims he's “on the side of the victims, not of the victimizers", and Margarita Zavala, who tweeted "should she win, she would build a 'special prison for corrupt people and criminals'. This race for the presidency has already claimed the lives of 6 candidates at the hands of cartels, and fear of being targeted may have well been a motivator behind Lopez-Obradors' proposal. The race has only begun, and it is all or nothing for the remaining candidates. But the price may well be their lives. SOAPSTone Analysis
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AuthorDamariz Ortiz. Sophmore Magnet Student at North Cobb High School. Archives
January 2018
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