A Look Inside Mexico’s Ruling Party
After AMLO departed from office, the party is taking action to prevent defections and disarray.
MEXICO CITY—With former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador retired in Chiapas, plowing away at his forthcoming books and out of the public eye for the first time in a generation, the party he founded barely a decade ago, Morena, should have fallen apart. The opposite has been true: The absence of this all-encompassing leader has demonstrated the strength of the apparatus he built. López Obrador hasn’t needed to meddle in government because he left everything ironed out. Everyone knows their job, and they are now carrying it out according to plan (his plan). The same is true...
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