Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Mexican leftist leader and two-time presidential candidate, checked into a Mexico City hospital on Tuesday, Dec. 3, with heart problems. He was allegedly hospitalized for high blood pressure but it was later known he suffered a heart attack. "In regard to the speculations about the health of AMLO, we can confirm that he is fine. More information will be given later," Ricardo Monreal, a former coordinator of López Obrador's presidential campaign, wrote on his Twitter account. López Obrador was discharged this morning.
Doctor Octavio González, who treated the former presidential candidate, released a statement saying that during the five days in which López Obrador remained in the hospital, he had a satisfactory progress without any complications, and that's why he was released so he could continue his treatment at home. He should be resting for the following month. After suffering the heart attack, Andrés Manuel López Obrador was treated with an angioplasty and placement of a coronary stent, a little tube to improve blood flow to his heart.
López Obrador rose to fame in 1996, after leading an indigenous group who blocked access to a petroleu, well in the state of Tabasco. Although the protest was broken up by the military, López Obrador made a name for himself, that helped him in pursuing a political career. He ran twice for the presidency of México. In 2006, he lost to Felipe Calderón by just 0.56 percent of the votes, and never conceded the election during the six years in which Calderón was in office. He also ran in the 2012 elections, which he lost by 6.62 percent of the vote to Enrique Peña Nieto, the current president of Mexico. He denounced those results as fraudulent as well, calling them "dirty, unfair and plagued by irregularities".
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