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Mexico: López Obrador’s First Year
Few changes
The current government revived the Ministry of Public Security (which his predecessor had scrapped) and got rid of the former intelligence service (CISEN) and the body responsible for public officials’ security – including his own – as part of his administration’s restructure and anti-corruption austerity drive.
- 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