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101 Foreign Aff. 74 (2022)
Mexico's Dying Democracy: AMLO and the Toll of Authoritarian Populism

handle is hein.journals/fora101 and id is 1214 raw text is: Mexico's Dying Democracy AMLO and the Toll of Authoritarian Populism DENISE DRESSER When Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office four years ago, he promised to deliver what he branded a Fourth Transformation, the next in a series of defining junctures in Mexican history: the War of Independence in the early 1800s, the liberal movement of President Benito Judrez later that century, and the Revolution of 1910. To make Mexico great again, he said he would fight deeply ingrained corruption and eradicate persistent poverty. But in the name of his agenda, L6pez Obrador has removed checks and balances, weakened autonomous institutions, and seized discretionary control of the budget. Arguing that police forces cannot stop the country's mounting insecurity, he has supplanted them with the Mexican military and endowed it with unprecedented economic and political power. Today, the armed forces carry out his bidding on multiple fronts and have become a pillar of support for the government. DENISE DRESSER is Professor of Political Science at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico. FOREIGN AFFAIRS 74

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