Tag Archives: Andrés Manuel López Obrador

So is Mexico so eager to open talks with the U.S. on NAFTA if it was “the worst deal ever approved” by Washington? A deal that was helping Mexico get one over on their neighbors to the north. The answer likely has something to do with the devastation that neoliberal “free trade” brings with it wherever it goes.  Like most countries before they embraced neoliberalism, Mexico before NAFTA was once home to a diverse and robust domestic agricultural sector, less reliant on imported food and...

Backgrounder. Short. Immanuel WallersteinTwo Cheers for Mexico’s AMLO: A Great Victory for the Left Immanuel Wallerstein | Senior Research Scholar, Yale University, formerly a professor of sociology

AMLO is definitely the Bernie Sanders of Mexico.… The New York Times reports: "Mr. López Obrador’s win puts a leftist leader at the helm of Latin America’s second largest economy for the first time in decades, a prospect that has filled millions of Mexicans with hope — and the nation’s elites with trepidation. "The outcome represents a clear rejection of the status quo in the nation, which for the last quarter century has been defined by a centrist vision and an embrace of globalization...