In 2018, Andrés Manuel López Obrador — known by his initials, AMLO — won election to the Mexican presidency in a sweeping landslide. A leftist populist, AMLO has cast himself as a champion of the poor, denounced Mexico’s “monstrous inequality,” and pledged to redistribute wealth and eliminate political corruption. His triumph was heralded as a “political earthquake” that delivered a “sweeping mandate” to “the most […]
