opinion Editorials. Mexico’s democracy is in danger, and we could all pay the price Reforms to the election agency will give more power to AMLO.

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as AMLO, has never had much time or aptitude for democratic niceties and institutional checks and balances.

The Saturday Essay; Is Mexico’s President a Threat to Its Democracy? Critics charge that the populist leader known as AMLO hopes to turn back the clock of Mexican politics to the 1970s, before ...

Democratic processes in the U.S. have relied more on a culture of civic trust and a strong rule of law. Sadly, this may be changing, and we might soon need to invest in an INE of our own.

The leaders of El Salvador and Mexico are popular. Their supporters are conflating that with the strength of democracy in their countries. The post In El Salvador and Mexico, Popular Isn't the ...

Mexico’s erratic and authoritarian president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is scheming to end the country’s quarter-century commitment to multiparty liberal democracy.

Mexico’s president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, who was hand-picked by Mr. López Obrador to succeed him, has clearly stated her position in favour of these populist reforms.

T hat it is a foregone conclusion that Claudia Sheinbaum will be Mexico’s next President is a tragedy for Mexican democracy. Sheinbaum is Mexico’s presidential frontrunner and the anointed ...

Mexico’s multiparty democracy is only a quarter-century old. But Morena’s governments over the past six-plus years have degraded the country’s democratic institutions to the point that ...

Mexico’s presidential term limit dates back more than a century to the revolution that ended the “Porfiriato,” a dictatorial regime led by Porfirio Díaz, who ruled Mexico for nearly 30 years.

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as AMLO, has never had much time or aptitude for democratic niceties and institutional checks and balances.Yet as he enters the second half ...