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(L) Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. © Reuters / Mexico's Presidency; (R) © Twitter / @TheEconomist.
29 May, 2021 | RT News
Next week Mexicans should vote against their popular president's party because he is a dangerous populist, The Economist has said. The newspaper's hit piece has been met with outrage and ridicule in the country.
On Sunday next week, Mexicans will be electing hundreds of legislators and other state and local officials. They should absolutely not vote for Morena, the party of incumbent president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, popularly known as AMLO. That is the opinion of the British weekly newspaper The Economist, which has just published a highly critical article about the man and his policies.
Mexico's president pursues ruinous policies by improper means. Our cover in Latin America this week argues that AMLO is a danger to democracy https://t.co/2TvJTqYXyK pic.twitter.com/bVBIAGPkYz
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) May 27, 2021
The piece labeled AMLO "Mexico's false messiah," claiming that he is "a danger to Mexican democracy" and that his power needs to be curtailed. The magazine brought up several arguments to back the stance, saying, for example, that the president "calls a lot of votes, but not always on topics that are best resolved by voting." Holding a referendum to measure public support for a "pet project" or for a decision to prosecute former senior officials on corruption charges is, according to The Economist, "a stunt" and "a mockery of the rule of law."
Mexico's president was also accused of having "disdain for expertise" and "a love of ideas that have been tried and proved not to work" – like pushing private capital out of hydrocarbon extraction, electricity generation and distribution, and railroad transportation, or deploying the military to build infrastructure projects.
Is there a left-wing goverment in Latin America that The Economist doesn't support overthrowing? No. No, there isn't. 🇲🇽🇳🇮🇻🇪🇧🇴 pic.twitter.com/w1mEASMKlI
— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) May 27, 2021
The Economist acknowledged that AMLO is not personally corrupt, unlike "much of the ruling class" in Mexico, and has done a lot of good for the have-nots. But nevertheless it said voters have to deny him a parliamentary majority for the remaining three years of his presidential term, because he is "power-hungry." Washington could possibly be of assistance, the piece suggested.
Donald Trump did not care about Mexican democracy. President Joe Biden should make clear that he does… America ought not to turn a blind eye to creeping authoritarianism in its backyard.Coming from a publication that takes pride in having once been called the "journal that speaks for British millionaires" by Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, the lecture on how Mexico should be governed did not land well.
AMLO himself has said the label given to him was "stupid, false and meddling." Speaking the day after publication, he said The Economist was acting unethically and disrespectfully toward the Mexican people.
"It's like if I were to go to the UK and ask the British people to vote for my friend from the Labour Party," he explained. AMLO apparently was referring to the former UK Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, who, incidentally, is not a politician favored by the 'millionaire's journal' either.
Few outsiders have noticed how radical Mexico’s president is. Elections on June 6th will determine how deeply he can transform his country https://t.co/edW2Bk1bvX
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) May 28, 2021
The message seems to be taken with skepticism by the president's supporters. Some pointed out that The Economist was not particularly original in its religious-themed description, borrowing it from the Spanish-language publication Letras Libres.
Mexico's president pursues ruinous policies by improper means. Our cover in Latin America this week argues that AMLO is a danger to democracy https://t.co/2TvJTqYXyK pic.twitter.com/bVBIAGPkYz
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) May 27, 2021
Others suggested the British magazine clearly had an agenda that had little to do with the well-being of the Mexican people and much to do with the return on investment for international corporations. After all, the big business-friendly platform of Mexico's previous president, Enrique Pena Nieto, received glowing reviews from the Western press. Pena Nieto left office in 2017 with an approval rating of just 12%, leaving behind an economic crisis and paving the way for AMLO's win of 53% of the popular vote during the following year's presidential election.
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