Obrador pounds it home in Mexico as the clock ticks

i've been trying to keep up with the coming july 2 presidential election in mexico (here, here, here, here, and here)...

"For too long, [Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexican presidential candidate] booms, politicians, business owners and their families have gotten rich and evaded taxes while "the working class has remained mired in poverty.

"The poor pay taxes on everything they buy," he says, cutting to the heart of his theme. "Those of the pure upper class, the influential, don't pay the taxes."

obrador's hitting pay dirt... the distance between the have's and the have-not's in mexico is huge... i don't have any accurate figures but my guess is that well over 80% of mexico's wealth is concentrated in less than 5% of the population and that may be understated... as is true in so many places around the world, globalization and free trade (which in mexico goes under the name of nafta), has only served to make the super-rich richer and put more of a burden on the poor...

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