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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused economic devastation and loss of life around the world, and we are now coming to the conclusion that the disease will rob us of one more thing some of us very much looked forward to seeing: The historical verdict on an AMLO government. All our lives (or at least, in our case, since the López Portillo administration), we have parroted the same truisms about Mexican society: that all politicians are corrupt, the unions are corrupt, Pemex is corrupt, the police are corrupt, and generally that él que no transa no avanza — he who doesn’t engage in corruption doesn’t get ahead. Continue reading COVID blows AMLO legacy for lovers and haters alike
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ZEE Economic Zones face chop under AMLO
So far we’ve been resisting the urge to complain about the new government, and for the moment we’re going to stick with that policy until more time has passed to evaluate the direction things are taking. But we will say this: the rise to power of a leftist political party with a near-monopoly over the institutions of government raised a lot of questions about what would happen to the center-right programs and reforms of the two previous administrations. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), in office for four months now, has demonstrated from the start that he is willing to cancel previous governments’ initiatives regardless of their scale. The best example of this is the partially-built new Mexico City airport, which now is a 4,430-hectare empty lot, but parts of the energy and education reforms could be thrown in as well. Every pharaoh has his pyramid, though, and no sooner did AMLO scrap previous president Enrique Peña’s US$13 billion airport than he set to work on his Tren Maya tourist train, projected to begin trampling virgin Yucatan jungle by 2022 to the relatively thrifty tune of US$8 billion. Continue reading ZEE Economic Zones face chop under AMLO