The Real Reasons for AMLO’s Popularity
Mexico’s leader is much more than the “charming demagogue” often portrayed in the foreign media.
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), is regularly portrayed as an authoritarian leader with dictatorial tendencies who is eroding the country's democratic institutions. A charming demagogue whose supporters mindlessly follow him, taken in by his populist rhetoric. As a Mexican scholar and journalist, I have also been very critical of AMLO. He is a leader with populist impulses who commonly resorts to publicly bashing his adversaries, regardless of whether their criticism is substantiated. His harsh austerity measures created needless suffering during...
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