Bloomberg
Mexico's Lopez Obrador Leads Presidential Poll With 38.7%
Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the frontrunner in presidential opinion polls for more than two years, maintained his lead in a nationwide poll by Consulta Mitofsky. ...
Lopez Obrador is a leftist, his enemies and the USA will undoubtedly say "populist". One detail of his record caught my attention. When he lost governors elections in 1994 he didn't acknowledge his defeat and out of protest stopped national oil production... As a mayor of Mexico he alledgedly was known for his spartanic lifestyle: He came into office at 6:00 in the morning, drove a little car, and shunned parties.
Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights; Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 1.2.192)