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Weekly Report - 17 May 2018 (WR-18-19)
MEXICO: López Obrador makes misstep
With the dust yet to settle in the public spat between Mexico’s business sector and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the presidential candidate of the leftist opposition Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), over his plans to scrap the new Mexico City international airport project [WR-18-18], the clear frontrunner in the polls has made another pledge that has earned him widespread criticism. López Obrador’s plan to repeal the 2012-2013 education reform has been criticised as a regressive populist measure that panders to Mexico’s combative teachers’ unions at the expense of ensuring the provision of high-quality education for Mexico’s children.
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