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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's new leftist leader —long branded a socialist by his critics — is railing against big government.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday that his predecessors created too many high-paid positions on regulatory agencies.
"What did they do all this time? They made the government bigger," he said at a news conference. "Institutions and commissions everywhere."
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Robert D. Bullard, Texas Southern University