Understanding AMLO’s rise requires an account of this critical period of failure. The PRI, notorious for embracing a broad ideological umbrella, ruled Mexico without interruption from 1929 to 2000.

When Andrés Manuel López Obrador selected Claudia Sheinbaum as his predecessor, he chose the path of least resistance.

When I became president of Mexico at the end of 1994, I brought my own party, the PRI, together with all the opposition ...

AMLO entered politics as a young man in 1976 in his home state of Tabasco in southeastern Mexico as an activist for the then-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He rose in its ranks ...

Despite hope that Claudia Scheinbaum would use her scientific training -- she has a doctorate in environmental science -- the ...

Guillermo Ortiz asks whether Mexico’s new president will govern as a pragmatist or embrace her predecessor’s populism.

Polarization, client politics, and manipulation to eliminate political opponents characterized the presidency of Andres Manuel López Obrador. That’s the baton he passes to his successor.   By ...

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, former president of Mexico, departed his home Tuesday to the seat of government in the capital ...

I didn’t support Claudia Scheinbaum for President of Mexico. I thought she was a run-of-the-mill leftist. Moreover, she was ...