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How did Mexico's president become the world's most popular left-wing leader?

By Rachel Nolan.

Read by Gemma Acosta.

The president's dressmaker works at home, down a narrow road in a working-class neighborhood

on the southernmost edge of Mexico City. There is no sign, just the house number marked in chalk

on a rusted metal door. In the brightly lit pink-walled room at the back of her modest house,

Olivia Trujillo sits at her sewing machine,

piecing together the president's signature suits and dresses.

Trujillo sews everything here,

accompanied only by her family, three dogs, and one green parrot.

Once finished, an assistant spirits away the items by a motorcycle straight to the National Palace, where the president lives.

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