E76 - AMLO: A Portrait w/ Alexander Aviña
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Dec 20, 2022 • 56M
E76 - AMLO: A Portrait w/ Alexander Aviña
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Danny and Derek welcome back Alexander Aviña, associate professor of history at Arizona State University, for a discussion focusing on the career of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of Mexico. They touch on his unsuccessful bids for president, the MORENA party, the current Mexican political culture, his relationship to neoliberalism, his administration’s foreign policy, COVID response, and more.
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E76 - AMLO: A Portrait w/ Alexander Aviña
I am in Academia, and a Mexican in permanent exile. I left the country with no intention of ever going back.
AMLO is a very bipartisan issue. Both sides are despicable.
I mention all this because I do t have a “side” in this, and as an researcher I understand empirical and objective analysis. This one is not.
A single example. He mentions protest in favor of the president while omitting the nation wide protest to protect the independent electoral institution from the president? The largest protests in the history of the county since the revolution?
AMLO is trying to dissolve the electoral college and become dictator for life. The people who oppose AMLO are commie fearing Neo-libs and we know where we stand there.
Seems like you need a New Mexico expert. I have listened to every interview with Alex. Every single was has a sprinkle of personal opinion pushed like fact. This one went too far.
Jesus: this guest’s analysis is not based on a broad understanding of policy but on AMLO anecdotes. Kind of underwhelming. You may laugh of NYT and WaPo coverage of LatAm, but I heard the very same talking points in this episode.