Posted AT 3:00 AM EDT on 15/04/06
A new deal from the ‘Mexican messiah'
Huachinango, Mexico — Filogonio Gaspar Rios is a small man with weathered skin, a Pancho Villa mustache and a straw hat. And he loves Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the Mexican presidential candidate known by his initials AMLO.
“I'm a
campesino. I travelled with 100 other
campesinos for 2½ hours to see him,” Mr. Rios explained. “We're all extremely poor peasants, but we like AMLO's project. . . .
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