Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Archives

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Foreign Policy & U.S./Latin America Relations

AMLO’s cautious foreign policy

By Greg Weeks / GregWeeksUNCC / February 15, 2019

AMLO’s foreign policy is far from the populist, anti-American rhetoric of his campaign and much of his political life. Nevertheless, his make-no-waves position is fraught with contradictions.

Democracy & Elections

Mexico’s AMLO: A New Chavez or Lula?

By Joachim Bamrud / July 26, 2018

Investors are anxious about whether Mexico’s next president will be more like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez or Brazil’s Lula.

Democracy & Elections

Mexico: Dawn of a new era or a return to the past?

By Marta Ochman / July 12, 2018

The real danger that has arisen from AMLO’s and MORENA’s landslide victories is not expropriation or authoritarianism, but disillusionment with unfulfilled promises and the persistence of corruption, poverty, and violence.

Democracy & Elections

Angry Mexico

By Juan Carlos Hidalgo and Ian Vásquez / June 21, 2018

Instead of voting for a candidate with concrete policy proposals to improve a difficult situation, many Mexican voters seem to ready to say “screw the system—and everything else along with it.”

Crime

The evolution of security challenges in Mexico

By Evan Ellis / REvanEllis / March 2, 2018

Crime and violence have expanded in Mexico as the result of the fragmentation of criminal groups at the same time that it faces the prospect of electing a populist president.

Democracy & Elections

Mexico City’s 2018 elections: An end to the PRD’s 20-year dominance?

By Emiliano Segura / February 16, 2018

After nearly two decades of uninterrupted control over Mexico’s financial, political, and cultural center, the PRD risks losing Mexico City in the face of a challenge from the far left.