Mexico’s Road to a Green New Deal Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Kevin Gallagher

In his December 2018 inauguration speech, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared the demise of neoliberalism and promised to eradicate corruption, identifying them as the ultimate causes of the Mexican economy’s weak growth, acute inequality, and widespread poverty. He came to power in a historic landslide victory, with his political party MORENA winning a majority of seats in both chambers of Congress. Today, after more than a year in office, it is too soon to give a full assessment of his administration. But it is certainly useful to evaluate the extent to which his policies help or not in shifting the Mexican economy to a dynamic path of environmentally sustainable and inclusive long-term growth.

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(This report was published in NACLA – report on the Americas | VOL. 52, NO. 2, http://dx.doi.org )