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A Class in Politics

Edwin F. Ackerman Jacobin
How AMLO turned an anti-corruption campaign into an opportunity for economic redistribution.

Claudia Sheinbaum Is the Next President of Mexico

Zoe Alexandra Peoples Dispatch
Sheinbaum, the first woman president of Mexico and North America, has vowed to continue the anti-neoliberal project of the “Fourth Transformation” inaugurated by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, led by the principle of “Mexican Humanism”.

How Will AMLO’s Presidency Be Remembered?

Nicolas Allen, Edwin Ackerman, Jacques Coste, Viridiana Rios The Nation
To understand the outgoing president’s popularity—and why not all leftists love him—Nicolas Allen spoke to three Mexican analysts from across the progressive political spectrum.

Claudia Sheinbaum-May Be Mexico’s First Woman President

Arturo Cano; Translated from the Spanish by Nicholas Allen. The Nation
The former student activist and current mayor of Mexico City is poised to make history with an ambitious platform on education, clean energy, and combatting violence against women.

Forty-Three Mexican Students Went Missing. What Really Happened to Them?

Alma Guillermoprieto The New Yorker
One night in 2014, a group of young men from a rural teachers’ college vanished. Their families have fought for answers. “I don’t have a body to mourn,” a father said of his son, one of the missing students. “I have nothing to hold that is him.”

The AMLO Project

Edwin F. Ackerman Sidecar/New Left Review
Whatever the shortcomings of AMLO’s answers, his attempt to break with neoliberalism cannot easily be dismissed.

AMLO Is Nationalizing Mexico’s Lithium Supply

Kurt Hackbarth Jacobin
Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is attempting to transform the country’s overpriced energy industry by nationalizing lithium — a move essential to kicking out private mining and developing a robust and affordable public energy sector.
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