Is Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who is scheduled to give his first state of the union address Sunday, losing his shine?
Mexico’s drug war has burst into violence again, the economy is flat, the healthcare system is creaking and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador — facing the wrath of U.S. President Trump — has cracked down on Central American migrants harder than ever.
“Lopez Obrador says the people are happy, but this is not what you would call being happy,” she said, motioning to the grieving families of the nightclub victims. His morning news conferences are usually followed by afternoon visits to small-town hospitals, with television cutaways to adoring crowds or videos showing him eating at local restaurants.
The president often says “I have other facts” when asked to explain discrepancies. Lopez Obrador is obstinate, and he hates to spend money, sharply cutting government spending and salaries in a way few more conservative governments could get away with. Lopez Obrador dismisses many nongovernmental groups like Alvarado’s as fronts for conservatives and business interests. Indeed, Mexicans Against Corruption has launched dozens of legal challenges to one of Lopez Obrador’s pet projects — converting an air force base into a new Mexico City airport — in part because the president canceled a partly built, more expensive airport project that business groups say made more sense.
Human rights groups worry the Mexican military, which has been implicated in rights abuses in the past, will now be given free rein.“This has been an administration that has had two sides, and swung back and forth” on human rights, said Santiago Aguirre, the head of the Miguel Agustín Pro Human Rights Center.
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