Proclaiming a “people’s struggle” against the country’s “power mafia,” Andrés Manuel López Obrador is regularly mobbed on the Presidential campaign trail. Photograph by Meghan Dhaliwal for The New Yorker
Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker: A New Revolution in Mexico
Sick of corruption and of Trump, voters embrace the maverick leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The first time that Andrés Manuel López Obrador ran for President of Mexico, in 2006, he inspired such devotion among his partisans that they sometimes stuck notes in his pockets, inscribed with their hopes for their families. In an age defined by globalism, he was an advocate of the working class—and also a critic of the PRI, the party that has ruthlessly dominated national politics for much of the past century. In the election, his voters’ fervor was evidently not enough; he lost, by a tiny margin. The second time he ran, in 2012, the enthusiasm was the same, and so was the outcome. Now, though, Mexico is in crisis—beset from inside by corruption and drug violence, and from outside by the antagonism of the Trump Administration. There are new Presidential elections on July 1st, and López Obrador is running on a promise to remake Mexico in the spirit of its founding revolutionaries. If the polls can be believed, he is almost certain to win.
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7 comments:
It's the great deception, the rich white people in Mexico City convince their countrymen that all of their woes are caused by rich white people in the US...and the cycle continues.
Rich white people are the best people. Every one knows this.
Also, time is a flat circle.
A Mexican snake oil salesman who wants to be The Man. Old story that keeps getting repeated like Grounds Hog day.
In two years this guy will have about 20% fanatical for him and the rest wondering where did it all go wrong?
All snake oil salesmen are Mexican except in the movie "The Outlaw Josey Wales".
The President of the USA said that North Korea no longer has nuclear weapons.
The US president is the biggest snake oil salesman
True dat.
Snake oil salesman or not, I enlarged this picture and it is the most enjoyable one I have seen in quite some time. Talk about enthusiasm.
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