Andrés Manuel López Obrador will haunt his successor

T of the blockbuster remake has come for the world’s seventh-largest democracy. Mexico’s second presidential debate took place (appropriately) at Churubusco film studios in Mexico City, the capital, on April 28th. The main tenor was whether Mexicans want a sequel to the six-year feature that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has scripted, directed and starred in. Claudia Sheinbaum, the candidate for the ruling Morena Party, said Mexicans face a choice between “advancing with the transformation” of her mentor, Mr López Obrador, or returning to a “past of corruption and privileges”...