Radical Mexican President Not Desirable: U.S. Official
The U.S. government is worried about the possibility that a center-left politician, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, may win next year's presidential election in Mexico, declared U.S. congressman Dan Burton.

Burton, chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, said that the U.S. requires of a "viable relationship" with Mexico, due to their shared 3,200-kilometer border requiring protection.

"If Mexico has a president with radical ideas ... it can cause severe problems between both countries, and that is something that we do not want to see," affirmed Burton in a talk at the Hudson Institute of Washington on Oct. 25 entitled "The State of Democracy in the Western Hemisphere: Crises and Opportunities."

Burton said that in their relations with Mexico, the United States has as a "main problem" illegal immigration that has attributed "great importance" to the political stability in Mexico and the rest of Latin America.

"I am very worried about how the things in Mexico are occurring," Burton said during the question and answer session. "I hope that we will have good relations with who is elected, in particular, Lopez Obrador," he explained.