What Is Left of the Mexican Left?

In: Latin American perspectives, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 84-89

Abstract

As Mexico approaches the 2006 elections, the candidate for president closest to the left is Andrés Manuel López Obrador, supported by the Partido de la Revolución Democrática and other left and center organizations. All the polls place him well ahead of the candidates of the other two parties, presenting a unique possibility of a pendulum swing of Mexican politics to the left of center.