AMLO’s Revolution in Mexico Can’t Be Reversed
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s ideas and obsessions will continue to loom large regardless of the outcome of Sunday’s election in Mexico.
He’ll be gone but not forgotten.
Photographer: Luis Antonio Rojas/Bloomberg
“The moral authority, the political authority, is above that law,” Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador claimed a few months ago, justifying his decision to dox a reporter who wrote something he didn’t like.
The remark captures how the leader known as AMLO understands power: The president has built the most influential political machine since the days when Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) monopolized politics last century. In his view nothing, not even the law, should be in a position to challenge it.