If this crisis happens, they anticipate, Mexico would not be the only country affected, but it would also damage the US economy. “If López Obrador creates a political or social crisis, the effect can be profound, affecting everything from migration to international trade, to cooperation against organized crime,” the WSJ said. Given these scenarios, what worries the experts consulted by “The Wall Street Journal” the most is that in the elections of this June 6, President López Obrador manages to take the step he requires to concentrate power and recalls that Morena has already proposed to end the autonomy of independent bodies. Instead, AMLO said that “someone with a greater sense of “moral” economy would have to arrive”. In a simile, The Wall Street Journal compares López Obrador with a series of leaders around the world, such as Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Donald Trump in the US, who, in his view, created a bond with the poor who felt that democracy had failed to improve their standard of living.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 05, 2021 22:52 UTC