Discover Five Facts About AMLO

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Mexico has just elected a new president; His name is Andrés Manuel López Obrador, AMLO, also known as El Peje. He is a representative of the National Regeneration Movement party, MORENA, which I created in 2014. Now, we tell you five things you should know about the president-elect.

One

It is the third time that he has competed for the presidential office. After being Head of Government of Mexico City, from 2000 to 2006, he contended for the first time in 2006 for the Democratic Revolution Party, PRD. The victory went to Felipe Calderón of the National Action Party, PAN.

In 2012, he competed for the same party, but the election was won by Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI.

Now he competed for MORENA and obtained the victory.

Two

His first steps in politics were in the PRI, where he joined in the 70s. After occupying middle positions, he became State Leader of this party for his native Tabasco.

Three

He has published a total of 16 books, such as Tabasco, a victim of fraud; Between history and hope: corruption and democratic struggle in Tabasco; FOBAPROA: Open file, Review and file, and An alternative project of Nation: Towards a real change, among others.

Four

The president-elect is the father of several children: José Ramón, Andrés Manuel and Gonzalo Alfonso; who are the fruit of his relationship with Rocío Beltrán Medina, who died in 2003.

And he has a fourth son named Jesús Ernesto, who he fathered with his current wife Beatriz Gutiérrez Mueller, with whom the President-elect of Mexico married in 2006.

Five

Andrés Manuel López Obrador studied a degree in Political Science and Public Administration at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.