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Mexico: great expectations

AMLO intends to carry out the "fourth transformation" in Mexico, but the global economic context is unfavorable and the region’s political climate is marked by the rise of the new right. Español

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Five months after his overwhelming victory at the presidential elections, the "fourth transformation" announced by Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is underway now that the leader from Tabasco has received the presidential sash in a ceremony carefully designed to reflect that historical moment.

He presented a discourse full of moralizing and anti-neoliberal declarations in the parliamentary premises, an indigenous purification ritual and the handing over of the baton of command and, finally, a harangue before the crowd gathered at Mexico City’s Zócalo, in which he listed, one after the other, his 100 government commitments.