EPISODE: Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs Resigns to Run for President

GUEST: Independent journalist Alina Duarte who joins us from Mexico City

BACKGROUND:

Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations, Marcelo Ebrard, one of the leading contenders to be the country's next leader, said on Tuesday he will resign to focus on winning the presidential nomination of the ruling MORENA party for the 2024 election.

Ebrard, a former mayor of Mexico City, wants to succeed President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as the standard-bearer of the left of center National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), which now dominates national politics.

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