With Trump in Power and Continued Slow Growth, Mexican Leadership Could Make a Left Turn Mexico News Daily
go to original January 21, 2017

Trump's election has aided the rise of the nationalist morena party in Mexico. Morena's leader, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, hopes to challenge the current mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto in the 2018 elections. (Wochit News)

Many Mexicans dislike the leader of the left-wing party called Morena, but Andrés Manuel López Obrador may represent the kind of firm leadership that Mexico wants in the face of a new relationship with its northern neighbor, says an expert on Mexico-U.S. relations.

Tony Payan, director of the Mexico Center at the Baker Institute in Houston, Texas, also predicts that with Donald Trump in the White House a stronger nationalistic fervor will probably develop in Mexico, leaving Amlo, as López Obrador is commonly known, as a strong contender for president in 2018.

Payan was among several observers and pundits polled by the news website Sin Embargo, many of whom agreed that Mexico’s new president must have a strong, patriotic and nationalistic profile, characteristics that many felt were currently lacking.



“The next president will have to be nationalistic, even if he or she doesn’t want to,” said Lorenzo Meyer, a historian at the College of Mexico, or Colmex, who said an inevitable shift in the country’s economic model must be assumed by the new president.

“It changed after the failure of president José López Portillo [1976-1982], a complete failure of the system.” Oil was used in the meantime to keep the country from sinking too deep and then came president Carlos Salinas de Gortari [1988-1994], bringing a new model, Meyer said.

“It is time to realize that that model is no longer viable because now the North American neighbor is saying: ‘I have no interest in being connected with you, I don’t want you, I dislike you, you’re a threat to my country, to my civilization.’”



“We have to create a model through which we regain our sovereignty and stop being so dependent,” said the historian and journalist.

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