How Claudia Sheinbaum Will Be Different From AMLO
Mexico’s next president may prove less popular but “more competent” than her predecessor, the author writes.
MEXICO CITY — From the beginning of Mexico’s presidential campaign, Claudia Sheinbaum was frequently portrayed in the local and international media as a danger to democracy, an ineffective populist, and a puppet of her mentor, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Now that the election is over, we know she won in a landslide victory. She is expected to secure a supermajority in the Lower House and fall just a few seats short of a supermajority in the Senate, something not seen in the history of Mexico’s electoral democracy. The risk is democratic backsliding. Mexico...
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