Comment: Latin America's tale of two countries

Two very different presidents from opposite ends of the political spectrum have recently taken office in Latin America's two largest economies. Leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in Mexico and right wing former army captain Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil were both inaugurated in the past couple of months. Thomas Smith assesses what's in store for the two countries' economies. In the final stretch of the election campaign and in the months following the election in July, AMLO moved to the centre and moderated his rhetoric on a number of key issues that calmed both businesses and markets...