Mexico’s Presidential Front-Runner Proposes Urzua for Finance Minister

Lopez Obrador says he’d pick Carlos Urzua if he’s president
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By Nacha Cattan and Adam Williams

December 14, 2017 at 5:43 PM UTC

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December 14, 2017 at 10:29 PM UTC

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Mexico’s leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he would choose former collaborator Carlos Urzua as his finance minister if he wins the election in July 2018.

The economist, with a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, served as Mexico City’s finance minister from 2000 to 2003, when Lopez Obrador was mayor of the capital. Urzua is now a professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico City.