Mexico may elect a far left President

Lil Mike · Jun 11, 2018

DavidMK said: ↑

None of what I said was false... Unless you're a believer in alternative facts in which case I suppose I am an apologist. For reality.
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Low crime rates, and a growing middle class do not describe Venezuala now, under Chavismo. Unless you have some alternate facts to argue otherwise. And don't even waste my time with the old oil prices argument. Oil prices crashed for every oil producing country in the world. Norway didn't descend into rioting and starvation.

DavidMK · Jun 11, 2018

Lil Mike said: ↑

Low crime rates, and a growing middle class do not describe Venezuala now, under Chavismo. Unless you have some alternate facts to argue otherwise. And don't even waste my time with the old oil prices argument. Oil prices crashed for every oil producing country in the world. Norway didn't descend into rioting and starvation.
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I was very clearly NOT talking about the here and now.

Greenleft · Jun 25, 2018

One week to go and Obrador is actually leading by a majority in most polls. One even had him at over 60%.

Greenleft · Jul 1, 2018

Less than 24 hours before we know the results. We can only hope that Obrador will not create an 'alternative parliament' to undermine the official parliament authority the same way Maduro did in Venezuela. I'm predicting an overwhelming victory for Obrador. At least he won't be in office until December 1st.

Lil Mike · Jul 1, 2018

Greenleft said: ↑

Less than 24 hours before we know the results. We can only hope that Obrador will not create an 'alternative parliament' to undermine the official parliament authority the same way Maduro did in Venezuela. I'm predicting an overwhelming victory for Obrador. At least he won't be in office until December 1st.
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Doesn't bode well for the NAFTA negotiations.

Space_Time · Jul 14, 2018

Here's more:

https://fair.org/home/in-wake-of-am...avismo-and-hope-for-business-friendly-change/

ULY 11, 2018

In Wake of AMLO Victory, US Media Fear Chavismo and Hope for ‘Business-Friendly’ Change
GREGORY SHUPAK

In Wake of AMLO Victory, US Media Fear Chavismo and Hope for ‘Business-Friendly’ Change
NYT: López Obrador, an Atypical Leftist, Wins Mexico Presidency in Landslide
For the New York Times (7/1/1, the election of Lopez Obrador brings “a sense of economic nationalism that some fear could reverse important gains of the last 25 years.”

Neoliberal capitalist dogma pervades mainstream media. A case in point is coverage of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s resounding victory in Mexico’s presidential election.

Referring to the president-elect by his commonly used acronym, the New York Times’ Azam Ahmed and Paulina Villegas (7/1/1 claimed that

one of AMLO’s biggest challenges will be to convince foreign investors that Mexico will remain open for business. If he fails to convince the markets that he is committed to continuity, or makes abrupt changes to the current economic policy, the country could find itself struggling to achieve even the modest growth of prior administrations.

According to the authors, keeping Mexico “open for business” for “foreign investors” should be a priority, a call for maintaining the economic status quo in a country where nearly half the population lives below the poverty line. Ahmed and Villegas suggest that “continuity” is necessary, even as they themselves say earlier in the article “that the nation’s desire for change outweighed any of the misgivings the candidate inspired”; evidently pleasing “the markets” matters more than carrying out the will of the populace.

The authors note López Obrador’s “sense of economic nationalism,” which “some fear could reverse important gains of the last 25 years.” Which gains these are and who made them is unspecified; economist Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (7/1/1 pointed out:

Poverty is worse than a quarter century ago, real wages are lower than in 1980, inequality is worsening, and Mexico ranks 18th of 20 Latin American countries in terms of income growth per person in the 21st century.

Another New York Times article (7/2/1, this one by Ahmed and Kirk Semple, said that López Obrador “must still convince investors that his policies will be business friendly.” Ensuring that “investors” are happy is apparently a nonnegotiable imperative.

Revealingly, the authors failed to consider how this supposed essential can co-exist with another necessity they describe, which is that “Mr. López Obrador will also have to deliver on his promises to address widespread poverty and yawning inequality.” Ahmed and Semple decline to point out the contradiction here: “Investors” rarely deem policies that “address widespread poverty and yawning inequality”—say, a higher minimum wage and the redistribution of wealth through social programs—to be “business friendly.” By glossing over such inconsistencies, and proffering magical thinking according to which capital can be appeased while poverty and inequality are successfully fought, the authors performed a service for advocates of neoliberal capitalist scripture.

WaPo: Mexico’s president-elect has far too many promises to keep
The Washington Post (7/2/1 fears Lopez Obrador “reversing the hard-won progress of his predecessors in shifting the statist, autocratic Mexico of the 20th century toward a modernizing liberal democracy.”
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