Dual Power or Populist Theater? Mexico's Two Governments
Against The Current vol. 125
La Botz, Dan
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/186
Date Written: 2006-11-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2006
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13290
The Mexican Electoral Tribunal recognized Felipe Calderón as president-elect, while a massive National Democratic Convention has proclaimed Andrés Manuel López Obrador to be the “legitimate president of Mexico.”He is now creating an alternative government, and says he will call a constituent assembly that will write a new constitution. What is happening here? Is this a radical fight for reforms? A potentially revolutionary movement? Or a spectacular piece of populist theater?
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