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Lopez Obrador and The Economist journal opinion

I read an opinion of the author Bello, without a full name or bio information.  Is he/she a a journalist or what?, I do not know, but the Title of the paper states: "Mexico´s presidential front-runner misundertands his role model" Starting with a very provocative title like this, we do not know who is writing: a historian, economist, bussiness or finance jornalist, we do not know. We follow the reading and see the subtitle: "Lázaro Cárdenas was a proud institution-builder; not a populist". Here we have a clue that the person who writes, obviously is a Spanish-spoker since adds accent to the vowels of the name in the right Spanish, as we use to do. Clearly and without explanation what is the meaning of the term "populist" starts comparing General Cardenas with the current candidate to the presidency of Mexico, Lopez Obrador "atacking" with the term "populist". I then recall when in the past, Obama mentioned that term precisely here