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Article snippet: MORE’s policies. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known colloquially as AMLO, campaigned on a radical anti-corruption ticket. But his campaign approach to U.S.-Mexico relations was in many ways similar to that of his opponents, as Trump and his policies remain deeply unpopular across Mexico’s political spectrum. "AMLO was actually quite restrained about the United States during the campaign; all candidates were critical [of Trump]," said Earl Anthony Wayne, who was U.S. ambassador to Mexico under former President Obama. López Obrador is expected to bring a markedly different tone to bilateral relations than that of current President Enrique Peña Nieto, whose cautious and diplomatic approach to Trump was almost universally reviled by Mexican voters. Still, López Obrador is likely to face many of the same challenges on key issues, from NAFTA to immigration to personal relations with Trump. "He will have to walk that thin fine line that the current government has had to walk down for the past two years," said Christopher Wilson, deputy director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute. NAFTA López Obrador, who in the 1990s was an opponent of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), could bring a radically different approach to the ongoing negotiations to redraft the treaty, which impacts more than 80 percent of the country's exports. López Obrador says he now supports the treaty, but his past opposition and left-leaning ideology worries some of NAFTA's s... Link to the full article to read more