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López Obrador’s Rise to Power: What Does It Hold for Labor?

López Obrador’s Rise to Power: What Does It Hold for Labor? Presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador at a rally in Mexico City, April 17, 2011. Eneas De Troya, Flickr 894574 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796019894574New Labor ForumRojas research-article2019 New Labor Forum 2020, Vol. 29(1) 38–48 López Obrador’s Rise to Power: Copyright © 2019, The Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Article reuse guidelines: What Does It Hold for Labor? sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796019894574 DOI: 10.1177/1095796019894574 journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf René Rojas Keywords Mexico, elections, neoliberalism, labor, strikes The 2018 elections in Mexico portended a “dinosaur” heading a “perfect” dictablanda watershed moment for the country’s politics. (soft dictatorship) of its own contrivance. The victories of left-wing Andrés Manuel Whereas throughout the 1990s it had near unan- López Obrador (known as AMLO) and his imous control of the Senate and roughly 75 to newly formed MORENA party (or Movimiento 90 percent of the lower chamber, today it has Regeneración Nacional) signaled a promising only a tenth of Senate seats and lower chamber path to power for a progressive project of representation. The right-wing PAN (Partido nationalist reform. The initial excitement, how- Acción Nacional), which in 2000 stood to domi- ever, has largely faded, as supporters and critics nate a new era of liberal politics is also tum- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

López Obrador’s Rise to Power: What Does It Hold for Labor?

Rojas, René
New Labor Forum , Volume 29 (1): 11 – Jan 1, 2020
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Presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador at a rally in Mexico City, April 17, 2011. Eneas De Troya, Flickr 894574 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796019894574New Labor ForumRojas research-article2019 New Labor Forum 2020, Vol. 29(1) 38–48 López Obrador’s Rise to Power: Copyright © 2019, The Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Article reuse guidelines: What Does It Hold for Labor? sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796019894574 DOI: 10.1177/1095796019894574 journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf René Rojas Keywords Mexico, elections, neoliberalism, labor, strikes The 2018 elections in Mexico portended a “dinosaur” heading a “perfect” dictablanda watershed moment for the country’s politics. (soft dictatorship) of its own contrivance. The victories of left-wing Andrés Manuel Whereas throughout the 1990s it had near unan- López Obrador (known as AMLO) and his imous control of the Senate and roughly 75 to newly formed MORENA party (or Movimiento 90 percent of the lower chamber, today it has Regeneración Nacional) signaled a promising only a tenth of Senate seats and lower chamber path to power for a progressive project of representation. The right-wing PAN (Partido nationalist reform. The initial excitement, how- Acción Nacional), which in 2000 stood to domi- ever, has largely faded, as supporters and critics nate a new era of liberal politics is also tum-

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