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.
Edwin F. Ackerman is assistant professor of sociology at Syracuse University, and visiting fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard.
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.
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