On December 1, Mexico will get a new president. Former mayor of Mexico City Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will take office. But his road to the presidency was anything but easy.<br /><br />Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known as AMLO, first had to prevail over the incumbent Mexican administration, run by the PRI, a political party that has governed Mexico for most of the last century. After numerous corruption scandals and a failed war on drugs that’s killed almost 200,000 people since 2006, AMLO was hoping the Mexican people were hungry for change.<br /><br />The multitude of crises in Mexico seemingly confirmed issues that AMLO had been discussing for decades, vindicating his agenda and making him the clear frontrunner for the 2018 election.<br /><br />Throughout the campaign, he built a broad coalition. His party MORENA, ran candidates who had formerly belonged to Mexico’s other, more dominant political parties. AMLO-mania was so strong during the campaign, that vendors began selling flags and masks with AMLO’s image on them.<br /><br />But who is AMLO? And how exactly did Mexico’s long time political outsider finally rise to the highest office in Mexican politics? And what's his plan for Mexico?<br /><br /> This video, "The Rise of Mexico's Andrés Manuel López Obrador</a>", first appeared on<br /> nowthisnews.com</a>.<br />
