Assessing AMLO
Mexican scholar, columnist, and television host Gibrán Ramírez Reyes reflects on President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s first year and a half in office.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks during a press conference in Mexico City, 2018. (Manuel Velasquez / Getty Images)
July 1 marked the two-year anniversary of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) victory in the presidential elections in Mexico. To discuss the aftermath of this watershed moment and the broad parameters of the movement around López Obrador as it has developed after taking power, sociologist Edwin Ackerman spoke to Gibrán Ramírez Reyes, a Mexican scholar, columnist, television host, current head of the Inter-American Conference on Social Security, and active member of AMLO’s party MORENA. Ramírez Reyes has become one of the leading voices accompanying and making sense of the political moment in the country.
The interview has been translated from its original in Spanish and has been edited for clarity.
Edwin F. Ackerman
AMLO’s victory was presented as a regime change, not just an electoral win. How would you define the previous regime now in its terminal stage?
Gibrán Ramírez Reyes
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