{"id":3746,"date":"2018-12-01T11:21:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T18:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniondelbarrio.org\/main\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2018-12-01T11:26:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T18:26:36","slug":"amlo-is-the-new-president-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniondelbarrio.org\/main\/amlo-is-the-new-president-of-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"AMLO is the New President of M\u00e9xico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3747\" src=\"https:\/\/uniondelbarrio.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4518-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uniondelbarrio.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4518-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uniondelbarrio.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4518-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uniondelbarrio.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4518-1024x690.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uniondelbarrio.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4518.jpg 1597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uniondelbarrio.org\/esp\/?p=814\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1997 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uniondelbarrio.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/spanishversionbutton.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a>AMLO is the new president of M\u00e9xico. He won the presidential chair with more than 53% of the votes, surpassing the multiple candidates of the right-wing political elite as a whole, by more than 14 points. It must also be considered that with just five years of existence, the MORENA party won at least 20,229,314 votes, while the PRI with more than 70 years of existence won 6,157,156 votes, and the PAN with 50 years of political life won 8,131,341 votes.<\/p>\n<p>This moment marks an important historical shift for M\u00e9xico that lends credibility to the name of Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s presidential coalition: <em>Juntos Haremos Historia<\/em>&#8211; Together We Make History. When we consider the 53% of the votes cast in favor of AMLO, together with the largely favorable results for MORENA senators and representatives (in the Senate MORENA won 52 of 96 seats that were up for election, and in the Chamber of Deputies MORENA won 210 seats of 300), this electoral coalition will soon control not only the executive but also a broad majority of legislative power of the Mexican republic. Under these circumstances, the incoming AMLO government will have nearly absolute institutional power.<\/p>\n<p>The published government program states that the priorities of the incoming administration will be focused on attending to the needs of the most vulnerable sectors of Mexican society \u2013 the poor, young people, and seniors. The new administration has also announced a dramatic shift in international relations &#8211; AMLO subscribes to the philosophy of the self-determination of peoples. This particularly notable with regards to relations with the United States and the issue of migration, since the specific changes have yet to be announced, though a change of direction has been openly declared. Furthermore, the new administration has committed itself to reversing the privatization of water, ending the horrific state sponsored drug war, increasing investment into national infrastructure, etc.<\/p>\n<p>In light of the declared goals of the incoming AMLO government, Uni\u00f3n del Barrio now has the obligation to \u201caccompany\u201d the declared <em>cuarta transformaci\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico<\/em>\u2013 forth transformation of M\u00e9xico as AMLO describes this moment. To \u201caccompany\u201d the incoming government is not an unconditional endorsement of AMLO nor MORENA, precisely because the political platform of <em>Juntos Haremos Historia<\/em>is not anti-imperialist, nor socialist. We know, without the risk of hyperbole or exaggeration, that without those basic ideological tenants guiding a national political movement, there is absolutely no hope for revolutionary change in M\u00e9xico.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, we must accompany the AMLO government and support its most progressive policies because we recognize that for Uni\u00f3n del Barrio and the masses of the Mexican people on both sides of the border, the new incoming government could eventually lay the foundations for bringing the Mexican people closer to a viable struggle for liberation and socialism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMLO is the new president of M\u00e9xico. He won the presidential chair with more than 53% of the votes, surpassing the multiple candidates of the right-wing political elite as a whole, by more than 14 points. It must also be considered that with just five years of existence, the MORENA party won at least 20,229,314 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,47,40,61,38,39,46,34,13,14,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-60","category-analysis-2","category-analysis","category-electoral-politics","category-en-espanol","category-history","category-history-2","category-mexico","category-nuestra-america","category-organizational-updates","category-statement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AMLO is the New President of M\u00e9xico - Uni&oacute;n del Barrio<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uniondelbarrio.org\/main\/amlo-is-the-new-president-of-mexico\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AMLO is the New President of M\u00e9xico - Uni&oacute;n del Barrio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AMLO is the new president of M\u00e9xico. 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