Edwin F. Ackerman is an associate professor of sociology at Syracuse University.
Since the 1990s, the Mexican right has portrayed privatization and deregulation as democratic causes. AMLO’s redistributive program cuts through this framing, casting neoliberalism as a form of corruption that disempowers ordinary Mexicans.
Anti-corruption politics was key to the landslide victory of AMLO’s Morena party in Mexico. Morena branded neoliberalism a form of upward redistribution, rallying the working class under the banner of republican austerity against the excesses of the rich.
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has achieved more than just policy victories during his five years in office. He has reshaped the national political field and established a new cycle of left-wing governance.
Mexican scholar, columnist, and television host Gibrán Ramírez Reyes reflects on President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s first year and a half in office.
Mainstream media coverage of Mexico’s leftist president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his response to the coronavirus crisis has been terrible. While world health authorities have commended Mexico’s approach, the media — blindly parroting AMLO’s right-wing opposition — have panned it.
We’re roughly three months into AMLO’s term as president of Mexico. The challenges and opportunities his administration and the Mexican people face seem equally epochal.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador has shaken Mexico’s entire political landscape. Will he be able to reshape the country?
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is poised to win Mexico’s presidency. He’s promised Mexicans a new country — can he deliver?
