Mexican President Lopez Obrador holds massive rally, praising ex-US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt who didn't actively oppose Mexico's 1938 oil expropriation, amid row with Washington over fentanyl crisis
Lopez Obrador greets supporters at a rally to commemorate 85th anniversary of the 1938 expropriation of the country's oil industry.
Perhaps conscious of recent tensions with the United States over US overdose deaths from fentanyl smuggled in from Mexico, Lopez Obrador spent part of his speech praising former US Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who didn't actively oppose the 1938 oil expropriation despite the fact many of the firms were American.
But most agree that few of the presidential hopefuls can match the popularity of a president whose approval ratings are routinely above 60 percent.Alberto Martinez, 59, said he hoped Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum would be the party's nominee. “We like her education, her prudence,” Martinez said. But he would settle for anyone Morena choose.
Former president Lazaro Cardenas, one of Lopez Obrador's heroes, delighted Mexicans when he expropriated the largely foreign-owned, privately operated oil industry on March 18, 1938.One of Lopez Obrador's main policy initiatives has been to save the state-owned oil company that Cardenas founded from crushing debt and low oil production.
He said the president was right to oppose US calls to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organisations or to use the US military to crack down on the gangs.
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