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Mexico: López Obrador’s First Year
Curbing abuses
Another one of López Obrador’s main campaign promises in this area was to improve Mexico’s human rights record. With this objective, he proposed to give an amnesty to jailed individuals, typically from deprived backgrounds, whose circumstances led them to commit a crime or made them unable to obtain legal support. The proposal was controversial as its detractors feared that it would lead to impunity and to manipulating crime incidence figures.
- 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