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Politics

Senior aide to Mexican president steps down

FILE PHOTO: Mexico's then president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (R) talks with Mexican politician Cuauhtemoc Cardenas while leaving his campaign headquarters in Mexico City, Mexico July 3, 2018. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday one of his top aides has left the government, dissolving a prominent bond between his administration and the longtime leader of the country's left, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas.

Lazaro Cardenas Batel, a son of Cuauhtemoc who had been head of the president's advisers, would move to regional bloc the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), Lopez Obrador, a fellow leftist, told a news conference.

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