Mexico’s populist demagogue president is gutting fair elections

Mexico could be entering a golden age, perfectly placed as it is to benefit from the growing tension between the United States and China. Parts of the country are already seeing a boom as companies diversify away from China and invest in it. In fact, a good chunk of that investment is being made by Chinese companies that are finding a way to continue to sell goods to the United States.

But these promising economic winds are being stifled by bad politics. For most of the past three decades, Mexico had a run of presidents who were serious about policy and tried to modernize the country, albeit with varying degrees of success. Alas, that luck has run out. Mexico’s president since 2018, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known as AMLO, is a populist demagogue straight out of the worst pages of Latin American history.

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