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Mexico rejects the status quo

• The landslide victory by Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Sunday’s presidential election puts a leftist at the helm of Latin America’s second-largest economy for the first time in decades.

His win upends the nation’s political establishment and represents a rejection of a centrist vision and embrace of globalization that many Mexicans feel has not benefited them. Here are five takeaways from the election.

In his third bid for the presidency, Mr. López Obrador promised to end corruption, reduce violence and address endemic poverty. But he now has to deliver.