López Obrador o la izquierda que no es

For the first time, Mexican democracy has a president in power who defines his government as “post-neoliberal.” In this article I explain how Mexico is facing the paradox of a turn to the left as drastic as it is impotent. By far, the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the most powerful se...

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Auteur principal: Centeno, Ramón I.
Format: Online
Langue:espagnol
Éditeur: El Colegio de México A.C. 2020
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Accès en ligne:https://forointernacional.colmex.mx/index.php/fi/article/view/2716
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Résumé:For the first time, Mexican democracy has a president in power who defines his government as “post-neoliberal.” In this article I explain how Mexico is facing the paradox of a turn to the left as drastic as it is impotent. By far, the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the most powerful seen to date by Mexico’s young democracy; however, it is nowhere near to dismantling neoliberalism. Here I propose that we facing a failed progressivism, and conclude that it makes no sense to conceive of this government as “left-wing.”