AMLO may find himself shepherding in more social and environmental change than he had planned
has rarely been stronger in Mexico. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the new president, won last year’s election by a record margin and has sky-high approval ratings. For the first time, leftist lawmakers have a majority in both houses of congress. Parties scorned by Mr López Obrador as “neoliberal”, which misgoverned Mexico before he took power, are demoralised.
But there are snags. Not all leftists in congress belong to his Movement for National Regeneration . Not all members of Morena and its allies are on the left. And those who are do not agree on what that means. Mr López Obrador’s priority is to strengthen the state as a weapon against what he calls “economic injustice”. Some of his allies are more interested in expanding social liberties or protecting the environment.
Latin America’s left does not care much about “expanding social rights”, notes Lorenzo Meyer, a historian whose son, Román, is secretary of rural and urban development in’s cabinet. Cuba’s communists sent gay people to labour camps in the 1960s. Among the governments that took power in the region’s “pink tide” in the 2000s and early 2010s, only Uruguay’s legalised abortion. Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s left-leaning, hip-hop-loving president-elect, has no plans to un-ban same-sex marriage.
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