López Obrador sparks controversy in Mexico

Mexico is by no means "bankrupt", the nation's business leaders said in response to a remark by the president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The country faces major challenges, said Julio Pablo Castañón, leader of the top business group, "but it has never failed to meet its international obligations."

Claudio González, an eminence gris of the private sector, said the president-elect ought to take care with his vocabulary: "He should have used some other adjective."