López Obrador takes power in Mexico after an unstable transition and broken campaign promises
- Written by Luis Gómez Romero, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
Five months after he won a landslide victory in Mexico’s 2018 presidential election on promises to “transform” the country, leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador will be sworn into office on Dec. 1.
The prolonged transition period – currently one of the the world’s lengthiest – has given Mexicans a...


