My concern, simply put, is that #AMLO will pull an Obama or a Lula, in the sense that he'll betray his rhetoric of change by carrying out a policy agenda effectively of continuity
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#AMLO's "hotel speech," as reported by the FT, could be the equivalent to Lula's 2002 “Letter to the Brazilian People”: "electoral billet-doux to the business community" (https://bit.ly/2MIs3kv ), a reassurance to foreign investors and creditors (https://bit.ly/2z8rjmO )pic.twitter.com/PvkJrhveOu
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#AMLO's vision "rests on the principle that interests between lower and higher classes are not fundamentally at odds and can be harmonized ... a Trojan horse for renewing an upper class currently lacking moral authority and political legitimacy"https://twitter.com/edwinackerman/status/1011652395871494144 …Show this thread -
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@jameslfredrick develops my concern over AMLO’s initial pro-business signals in this threadhttps://twitter.com/jameslfredrick/status/1014608267841101825?s=21 …Show this thread -
Informative and concise article by
@carlosbravoreg and@PatrickIber: “@lopezobrador_ ’s landslide victory in Mexico’s presidential election reflects widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo—and a broad-based mandate to transform the country”https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/mexico-election-results-2018-amlo-morena-democracy …Show this thread -
This is encouraging !https://twitter.com/patrickiber/status/1015021274136043520?s=21 …
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@humbertobeck: "Esta victoria electoral, con un insólito 53 por ciento de los votos, cierra un ciclo histórico del México moderno [...]. Pero con la presidencia de López Obrador, el trabajo de la izquierda mexicana no culmina, sino que apenas comienza."https://www.nytimes.com/es/2018/07/04/opinion-beck-amlo-izquierda-mexico/?smid=tw-share-es …Show this thread -
Very informative interview helps make better sense of Mexico’s newly elected president
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@ConcheiroL: “para el#EZLN,@lopezobrador_ no es un aliado porque ... representa una continuidad del sistema capitalista ... . Creen que ... sólo habrá un cambio profundo si hay una transformación de las formas de vida y el modo de producción."https://elpais.com/internacional/2018/07/07/mexico/1530999712_945131.html …Show this thread -
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@jameslfredrick assesses@lopezobrador_’s drug policy: “AMLO and his advisers have proposed sending drug war-fighting soldiers back to their barracks, pardoning nonviolent drug offenders, and boosting social programs”https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17690420/mexico-president-amlo-drug-war-cartels-violence-legalization …Show this thread -
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@lopezobrador_’s failed drug policy/public security town hall meetingshttps://twitter.com/jameslfredrick/status/1032428696035049472?s=21 …Show this thread
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