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Mexico's president-elect shuns guards, asks 'people' for protection

Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador left the country’s national palace on Tuesday in the front passenger seat of a white Volkswagen Jetta, swarmed by hundreds of jubilant supporters including one waving a live rooster.

There was not a bodyguard in sight.

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