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Thomas Graham in Mexico City

Triumph and a broken promise: Andrés Manuel López Obrador vowed to transform Mexico, but did he?

Man in suit outside.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Independence Day, his last before his term ends on 1 October, in Mexico City, Mexico, on 16 September 2024. Photograph: Raquel Cunha/Reuters

The last weeks of Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s government have been marked by political triumph and a broken promise.

As the new congressional supermajority of Morena, the party López Obrador founded, began changing the constitution in ways that will cement its political hegemony, the families of the 43 students who were forcibly disappeared in Ayotzinapa 10 years ago again took the streets to protest over the lack of justice – justice López Obrador vowed to deliver, but did not.

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