Sheinbaum's Popularity Passes AMLO's, Feeding Mexican Economic Optimism
President Claudia Sheinbaum is more admired by Mexicans than even her popular predecessor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a status that is fueling economic optimism despite risks of a recession and the perils of a US trade war.
Two-thirds of Mexicans, 67%, hold a positive image of Sheinbaum, putting her three points ahead of Lopez Obrador, according to LatAm Pulse, a survey conducted by AtlasIntel for Bloomberg News and released Monday. AMLO, as the former president is known, left office last year as one of Latin America's most popular leaders, handing the reins of the region's second-largest economy to his political protege.
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