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Weekly Report - 12 July 2018 (WR-18-27)
MEXICO: López Obrador makes key political appointment
Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced last week that Marcelo Ebrard would serve as his foreign minister when he assumes office in December. It looks like a shrewd political appointment. Ebrard might help López Obrador to shore up a two-thirds majority in the federal congress to enact constitutional reform.
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