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