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Jaime Heliodoro Rodríguez Calderón (1957–), also known as El Bronco, is a Mexican politician who served as the governor of Nuevo León from 2016 to 2021, and who also ran for president of Mexico in 2018 as an independent.[1] He has been widely described as a right wing populist and a Mexican nationalist (basically a Mexican Trump). And like his American counterpart, he’s made various controversial and bigoted statements about minorities, women, immigrants, Americans, gay people, and various other groups.[2]

He previously ran under the Institutional Revolutionary Party (a syncretic fascist party that controlled Mexico as a dictatorship from 1929 to 2000). After a fallout with other party members, he later dropped out of the party and disavowed them as dangerous and authoritarian (which he literally is as well).[3]

Tenure as governor[edit]

During his time as governor, Rodriguez did very little to improve conditions in the state of Nuevo León, bringing more corruption by nepotism and giving money to cronies, including elevating his campaign with illegal funds.[4]

General wingnuttery[edit]

Rodriguez has made several sexist statements on women, ranging from comparing his own wife to a horse to denying abortion rights to Mexican women.[5]

Stronghold on Mexican politics[edit]

Much like Trump, Rodriguez vowed to take a tough on crime approach (ironically, he himself would be charged as a criminal later in his campaign).[6]

Corruption charges[edit]

Rodriguez was charged for illicit financing charges to extend his presidential campaign in 2018, in which he finished dead last among the four candidates that ran.[7][8]

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