Claudia Sheinbaum Stays on AMLO’s Course
Some expected Mexico’s president to alter her predecessor’s policies once in office. A month in, there’s little evidence of that.
It’s been a month since Claudia Sheinbaum made history, becoming Mexico’s first female president in a landslide victory, after she promised to deliver “continuity with change” in comparison to her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. So far, we've seen far more continuity than change—although the full contours of Sheinbaum's administration are still coming into view. Sheinbaum seems committed to proceeding with the transformation of Mexico’s political system that AMLO began. She has preserved AMLO’s anti-pluralistic rhetoric and his penchant for handing more power to...
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