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Mexico: López Obrador’s First Year
Austerity against corruption
López Obrador’s inauguration speech was a diatribe against neoliberalism, which was portrayed as the source of the country’s problems, particularly corruption, which the government has sought to address by adopting an austerity drive to eliminate perceived excesses in the public sector. Thus, the Federal Public Servants’ Remunerations Law got rid of many perks for high-ranking officials.
- A dominant start
- Opening gambit
- Austerity against corruption
- Relations with the Judiciary
- Public consultations
- Presidential recall
- Orthodox or heterodox?
- Relations with business
- Budgets
- Energy
- Infrastructure
- Champion of the poor
- Focus on wellbeing
- Education
- Youth programmes
- Health
- Rural sector and indigenous population
- All change, but no change
- Few changes
- No improvement
- Curbing abuses
- Low priority
- Non-intervention
- Relations with the United States
- Outlook