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GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

Can AMLO Live Up to Mexico’s Critical Moment? Jorge Ramos Discusses

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

GZERO Media

International Relations, Government, Foreign Policy, Gzero World, News Commentary, Trump, News, Global Economy, Geopolitics, Politics, Ian Bremmer

4.6684 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Mexico finds itself at a critical moment in history: its populist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (also known as AMLO), appears unable to get control of the rampant violence that he promised to curb or of the raging coronavirus that he himself was just infected by. And during this moment of crisis, Mexico’s most important trading partner, the United States, has just elected a new president. Outside observers were surprised by leftist AMLO’s ability to get along so well with former President Trump. Will President Biden prove a tougher challenge? Ian Bremmer speaks with acclaimed journalist and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos.

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0:00.0

The message for kill and for the drug cartels is very simple. You kill in Mexico and nothing happens to you.

0:07.3

Impunity is incredibly high. At least nine out of ten crimes go unsolved in Mexico.

0:13.3

34,000 people being killed every single year and nothing happens.

0:19.2

Hello and welcome to the GZero World podcast. Here you'll find extended versions of the

0:24.4

interviews from my show on public television. I'm Ian Bremmer. And today, a look at the road ahead

0:30.1

for U.S. relations with Mexico. Border security, busting up drug cartels, and containing the

0:36.9

coronavirus pandemic, just a few

0:39.1

of the critical issues on the table. Will President Biden see eye-to-eye with the controversial,

0:45.1

but still quite popular Mexican president known as AMLO? And here in the United States,

0:50.6

what will Biden be able to accomplish on immigration reform with such a polarized and

0:55.9

narrowly divided Congress? We're talking about that and much more today with Univisions Jorge Ramos.

1:07.2

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1:22.1

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1:31.0

All right. to learn more. Jorge Ramos, they call him the Walter Cronkite of Latin America.

1:34.5

So happy to be with you today.

1:36.2

Thanks so much.

1:36.8

Great to be here.

1:37.9

We don't have the Trump administration anymore.

1:40.4

But, you know, there was certainly a presumption when Trump became president that relations with

1:45.8

Mexico were not going to be easy. And yet, at least from my perspective, didn't have many blowups.

1:51.8

Talk to us a little bit about the relationship between these two and how it affected the country.

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