Mexico's AMLO enjoys highest approval in Americas; Maduro, Guatemala's Morales, and Macri, the least

[sandensea]

A report by Mexico-based polling firm Mitofsky shows that, among 20 heads of government, Mexico's Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Peru's Martín Vizcarra enjoy the hemisphere's highest average job approval ratings with 67% and 63% respectively.

Three presidents, in turn, are enduring the lowest approval ratings of not only the Americas but of all 31 countries surveyed: Argentina's Mauricio Macri (19%), Guatemala's Jimmy Morales (16%), and Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro (15%).

Mitofsky analyzed recent polling averages for 18 Latin American nations, the United States, Canada, Australia, and 10 nations in Asia and Europe.

The right-wing Macri and left-wing Maduro are presiding over deepening economic crises, while Jimmy Morales, a conservative, has faced mounting corruption allegations.

The 20 Western Hemisphere leaders, weighed by their countries' population, averaged a job approval of 43%.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had job approval ratings of 44% and 42% respectively.

The data were as follows:

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"Like two bald men fighting over a comb," as writer Jorge Luis Borges might have put it, Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro and Argentina's Mauricio Macri have traded periodic barbs and are ideological opposites.

But they share key similarities:

Economies in deep crisis, increasingly authoritarian tactics, and a fondness for SmartMatic voting software - which international election observers consider easy to manipulate, and unverifiable if it were.

They - and Guatemala's Jimmy Morales - hover at the bottom of job approval rankings for Western Hemisphere leaders.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Mysterious! It is excellent to see people agree on AMLO, however.

Thanks for this imfo., sandensea.

Can't begin to understand why Trump is so high on that list.

Apparently they don't see as much of him as we do, lucky people!

[sandensea]

2. Right. I think Mitofsky referred to Gallup for Cheeto's approval rating

Which, at the time of their survey (and according to them), was in fact 44%: https://news.gallup.com/poll/203207/trump-job-approval-weekly.aspx.

It's worth noting though that this was in late February, amid a brief boost in approval thanks to those "talks" in Hanoi with Kim Jong Il.

As in: "Make me look good, Kimmie - and I'll pretend you're not developing nuclear warheads."

"You're so easy, Donald. You sure you don't want to move to North Korea?"