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Mexico: a President’s legacy

Andres Manuel LĂłpez Obrador (AMLO) was elected President in a landslide in 2018 as Mexicans were drawn to his vision of a dramatic overhaul of Mexico’s politics and economics (the so-called Fourth Transformation). A review of politics, the…

Il nuovo Messico negli scenari internazionali

¡Viva MĂ©xico! era il grido degli indipendentisti messicani all’inizio dell’Ottocento. Tre volte lo ha ripetuto AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez Obrador per chiudere il suo primo discorso da presidente del Messico, lo scorso 1 dicembre. Quel discorso, e…

Mexicans choose “AMLO”: now what?

Since Latin America’s return to democracy beginning in 1978, many middle class and poor citizens have found the old party systems unwilling and unable to generate sustainable and broad-based development. As voters they abandoned these…