`I`m asking for help`: Mexico`s poor petition outside president-elect`s HQ
(The Guardian Mexico)

Petitioners gather daily outside Andrés Manuel López Obrado offices in Mexico City, seeking jobs and justiceJosé Fidel had driven through the night in search of his worldly miracle. `We wanted to be the first,` said the 64-year-old coffee farmer, one of half a dozen petitioners huddled outside the offices of Mexico´s incoming president on Thursday in the predawn gloom. `What we are asking for is support.`Since Andrés Manuel López Obrador´s landslide election victory on 1 July, his Mexico City HQ has become a point of urban pilgrimage for disenchanted and disenfranchised supplicants hoping for deliverance. Continue reading...