How long can Mexico’s president straddle populism and pragmatism?

In her first year in office, Claudia Sheinbaum has deftly managed tensions with the US and at home. But the pressure is ...
Los Angeles Times

Mexico’s election of Claudia Sheinbaum is historic. But should we be celebrating it?

Mexico City mayoral candidate Santiago Taboada quoted the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda on social media recently: “They can cut all the flowers, but they can’t stop the spring.” It was a jab at outgoing ...
World Socialist Web Site

Claudia Sheinbaum, AMLO’s protégé, elected president of Mexico

The Morena party of Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, won a resounding victory in Sunday’s general elections, with its results described as a “landslide” or “tsunami” in ...
World Socialist Web Site

Sheinbaum continues AMLO’s legacy: subordinating Mexico to US clash with China

Mexico’s newly inaugurated President Claudia Sheinbaum has given the green light for her administration to implement what the right-wing daily El Financiero describes approvingly as “The strategy: ...
World Politics Review

AMLO’s Failed Security Policies Will Continue to Haunt Mexico

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, who is partially obscured, arrive at a commemorative ceremony in Mexico City, Mexico, Sept. 13, 2024 (photo by ...
The Hill

On his way out, AMLO is taking a wrecking-ball to Mexico’s institutions

The future of democracy and the investment climate in Mexico are in peril at this moment. Lame-duck President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known universally as AMLO) has a very clear roadmap to finish ...
Wall Street Journal

The Big Trouble in AMLO’s Mexico

Most Americans don’t think of Mexico much beyond migration, but big trouble is brewing south of the U.S. border that will inevitably flow north. The next President will have to make up for the Biden ...
Yahoo

AMLO Seizes US-Owned Port in Final Week as Mexico’s Leader

(Bloomberg) -- Mexico finalized plans to take control of a port and quarry owned by Vulcan Materials Co. on its Caribbean coast, deepening tensions days before the nation’s president leaves office.
Foreign Policy

Can AMLO Overhaul Mexico’s Democracy in His Final Month?

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World Politics Review

Mexico’s AMLO Is Anything but a Lame Duck

Outgoing Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks about judicial reforms during a news conference at the National Palace, in Mexico City, Mexico, June 19, 2024 (Sipa photo by Carlos ...
The Hill

Biden criticizes Mexico’s judicial reforms even as he does the same

A leftist president who will soon be leaving office is pushing to reform his country’s judicial branch in ways that would undermine long-standing constitutional checks and balances so that his female ...