Mexican president says he has drawn up a 'political will'

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been talking with unusual frankness about his health

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke with unusual frankness about his health Saturday, acknowledging he spent the night in a Mexico City hospital after undergoing a cardiac catheterization Friday.

López Obrador said he had prepared a “political will” to be opened in case he dies to orient his movement, but said, “I don't think it will be needed.”

The president said his doctors had become concerned, apparently about a possible blockage of his arteries, after he underwent a stress test a couple of weeks ago. He had been scheduled to undergo the catheterization then, but contracted COVID-19 and the procedure had to be put on hold.

López Obrador said the catheterization — in which a small, flexible tube is inserted into a blood vessel — found “the arteries are good, there was no blockage.”