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Mexico's New President: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
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Mexico has elected a populist and leftist president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Host Dan Loney talks with Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Professor at George Mason University Schar School of Policy and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Government, and Christopher Sands, Senior Research Professor and Director of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Center for Canadian Studies, to discuss the potential changes for the country he may make and how it will impact trade and U.S.-Mexico relations on Knowledge@Wharton.
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