Mexico leftist says won't mix economics, ideology

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Mexico leftist says won't mix economics, ideology

MEXICO CITY, June 26 (Reuters) - The leftist favored to win Mexico's presidential election this week said on Monday he would not mix ideology with economics, playing down investor fears he could run up debts with populist spending policies.

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Investors hope Lopez Obrador's economic polices would be closer to those of Brazil's pragmatist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva than the heavy state interventionism of Venezuela's outspokenly anti-U.S. leader Hugo Chavez.

But Lopez Obrador rejected comparisons with either, saying Mexico's proximity to the United States and its economic dependence on its powerful neighbor would put him in a different position from other regional leftist leaders.

"Every country has its story. Mexico is not the same as Brazil or Venezuela," he said in the interview. "We have a ... border with the United States, the most powerful nation in the world, where 20 million of our countrymen live."

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[Acadia Blue]

1. The whole problem with Mexico is that the upper 1 percent own

ninety something percent of the country. Mexico needs a redistribution of wealth and a french style revolution to set it on a path of real democracy. I lived there 2 years as an American student a long time ago and its worse now than it was then.

[Vidar]

2. I can think of another country that would simularly benefit.

[Acadia Blue]

3. When I lived there everyone I made friends with would take me to

a place on Insurgentes stree where the goverment gunned down demonstrators and threw them in the back of a truck and it never made the press! I used to thank the First Cause every morning that I was born an American.
We have the right to protest and can change things peacefully here. Our problem is that the public is no longer getting involved in politics. They are working so hard that they don't even know what is happening.