March 22, 2006

Few foreign ambitions for Mexican leftist candidate

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico
Unlike other Latin American leftists who have become globe-trotting stars, Mexico's presidential front-runner has little interest in foreign affairs, preferring the intricacies of creating local jobs to international treaties.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says if he wins the election in July he will put dealings with the rest of the world on the backburner while he gets on with his life-long ambition of tackling Mexico's endemic poverty.

"Lopez Obrador is not a politician who wants to have a continental movement or who aspires to having a foreign policy with a lot of international initiatives," the candidate's chief political aide, Manuel Camacho Solis, told Reuters.
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