Editing Andrés Manuel López Obrador

{{Infobox politician|name=Andrés Manuel López Obrador|image=AMLO.png|birth_date=13 November 1953|birth_place=Tepetitán, [[Tabasco]], [[Mexico]]|nationality=Mexican|political_party=[[Morena (political party)|MORENA]]}}

'''Andrés Manuel López Obrador''' (born 13 November 1953), also known by his initials, '''AMLO''' is a [[Mexican United States|Mexican]] politician who has been serving as the 65th president of Mexico since late 2018. Although seemingly a [[Progressivism|progressive]], many of AMLO's actual decisions have been decisively [[reactionary]], with him attempting to make himself appear to be against [[imperialism]] whilst maintaining [[Capitalism|capitalist]] hegemony. 

== Presidency ==
=== Political Allies and Cabinet Members ===

Since the very start of his presidency he has boasted that his cabinet, fellow party ([[Morena (political party)|MORENA]]) members and overall political associates are unlike the previous administration's extremely corrupt and self-serving officials, yet he brought in to his side and/or stood by some of the most notoriously vicious individuals in the Mexican political sphere such as:

* [[Manuel Bartlett]], who stands accused by independent Mexican NGO's of, among other things, creating a coal mining cartel in Sonora, receiving millions of pesos from the Guadalajara cartel, establishing a shell company that sold overpriced ventilators to the Mexican institute of social security during the [[COVID-19 pandemic|pandemic]] and failing to declare millions in real estate property<ref>{{Web citation|author=Bobadilla, Omar|newspaper=Mexicanos contra la corrupción|title=Las propiedades que Bartlett ocultó|date=2019-07-28|url=https://contralacorrupcion.mx/las-propiedades-que-bartlett-oculto/|retrieved=September 11, 2024}}</ref><ref>[https://kjzz.org/content/1722162/mexican-energy-reform-proposal-would-nationalize-lithium-production Mexican energy reform proposal would nationalize lithium production] by Murphy Woodhouse on KJZZ</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=La Nación|title=Manuel Bartlett, político vinculado al narcotráfico y la corrupción|date=2022-07|url=http://revistalanacion.com/noticia/manuel-bartlett-politico-vinculado-al-narcotrafico-y-la-corrupcion/2022-08-18|retrieved=September 11, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Mexicanos contra la corrupción|title=La empresa de Bartlett Jr obtiene contrato de SEDENA sin que haya terminado el proceso en su contra|date=2021|retrieved=September 11, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=La Nación|title=Manuel Bartlett, político vinculado al narcotráfico y la corrupción|date=2022-07|url=http://revistalanacion.com/noticia/manuel-bartlett-politico-vinculado-al-narcotrafico-y-la-corrupcion/2022-08-18|retrieved=September 11, 2024}}</ref> as director of the federal electricity commission.
* [[Yeidckol Polevnsky]], the (now ex) secretary general of MORENA who held the post from 2017-20 and embezzled almost 400 million pesos via paying said sum in public funds to a Queretan infrastructure company who never actually carried out the projects it was supposed to.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Angel, Arturo|newspaper=Animal Político|title=Fiscalía abre investigación contra Yeidckol Polevnsky por presunta corrupción y peculado|date=2020-06-19|url=https://www.animalpolitico.com/2020/06/fiscalia-investigacion-polevnsky-corrpcion-peculado|retrieved=September 11, 2024}}</ref>
* [[Ernestina Godoy]], attorney general of Mexico City from 2018-24 (until she was deposed of her post by the local congress of Mexico City) and who in said capacity cleared of all charges 4 police officers who brutally raped a 17 year old girl in Azcapotzalco on August 3rd, 2019 due to supposed 'lack of evidence' and, who also under said capacity, failed to resolve almost 40% of the annual violent deaths in the city by either not investigating said crimes at all or manipulating data concerning them in order to make it seem like the percentage was much lower.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Cátedra UNESCO UNAM Derechos Humanos|title=Violencia contra las mujeres. Caso joven de Azcapotzalco|date=2019-06|url=https://catedraunescodh.unam.mx/catedra/papiit/pdf/08_boletin_agosto_2019_No62_CJA.pdf|retrieved=September 11, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Serena, Georgina|newspaper=El País|title=El Congreso de Ciudad de México tumba la ratificación de la fiscal Ernestina Godoy|date=2024-01-08|url=https://elpais.com/mexico/2024-01-08/el-congreso-de-ciudad-de-mexico-tumba-la-ratificacion-de-la-fiscal-ernestina-godoy.html|retrieved=September 11, 2024}}</ref> Presently she's a state senator for Mexico City serving MORENA but the incoming [[Claudia Sheinbaum]] has tapped her for the president's judicial counsel. 
* [[Omar G. Harfuch]], who served as the secretary of civilian security (i.e., the local police) from late 2019-23 thanks to a long history of working with dangerous and autonomous private security corporations and as such received millions from the Sinaloa cartel during his tenure at one of said private security corporations the previous administration. In the words of renowned Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez he's an "''awfully corrupt cop with and unimaginably dark history.''"<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|newspaper=Aristegui Noticias|title='Un desastre para la democracia' imponer a Harfuch en la CDMX: Anabel Hernández|date=2023-10-25|url=https://aristeguinoticias.com/2510/mexico/un-desastre-para-la-democracia-imponer-a-harfuch-en-la-cdmx-anabel-hernandez/|retrieved=September 11, 2024}}</ref> He is the president elect's ([[Claudia Sheinbaum]], AMLO's successor and president of Mexico as of October 2024) pick for National Secretary of Public Security (essentially making him the country's most important cop). All the previous information is just within the timeframe of his working for MORENA, however, perhaps the most unsavoury parts of his past occurred before this time. First, when he served as the head of the intelligence department for the federal police in Guerrero directly under none other than Genaro García Luna -an infamous politician later revealed to have been an operative of the Sinaloa cartel all along whilst he held the same post [[Claudia Sheinbaum|Sheinbaum]] is giving to Harfuch under Felipe Calderón's administration- and, despite claiming he never really knew him, as mentioned before<ref name=":0" /> Harfuch has links to the Sinaloa cartel from his time in various private security companies thus making said defense extremely feeble. The second and most heinous piece of his past occurred when in 2012 he collaborated closely (this according to the Mexican authorities themselves) with Jesus Murillo Karam, the state prosecutor who carried out the "investigation" into the infamous Ayotzinapa state crime and who, with the help of Harfuch, came up with the so-called "''verdad histórica''" (historic truth) regarding what the government did in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero on the night of September 26, 2014<ref>{{Web citation|author=Celaya G., Ana Karen|newspaper=El Imparcial|title=Omar García Harfuch: ¿Cuál fue su relación con García Luna?|date=2024-06-05|url=https://www.elimparcial.com/mexico/2024/07/05/omar-garcia-harfuch-cual-fue-su-relacion-con-garcia-luna/|retrieved=September 12, 2024}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=Roldán, Nayeli|newspaper=Animal Político|title=Harfuch, Godoy, Beltrones, Murat, Salgado Macedonio y otros personajes polémicos que llegarán al Senado tras elección|date=2024-06-04|url=https://animalpolitico.com/elecciones-2024/congreso/nuevos-senadores-polemicos-morena-harfuch-godoy-salgado-macedon|retrieved=September 12, 2024}}</ref>. Once again quoting Annabel Hernandez, Harfuch holding the aforementioned position is certainly a "''disaster for democracy''".<ref name=":0" /> 
* [[Felix Salgado Macedonio]], a literal serial rapist and sexual abuser who's been accused multiple times of said crimes; and whom the president decidedly defended in one of his daily press conferences by responding to accusations against him with "''ya chole''", a phrase loosely translatable as expressing exhaustion and lack of interest in a topic because of how much its been brought up; as well as soon thereafter simply stating that the accusations against Salgado Macedonio were false and that he actually would have supported his candidacy had it taken place. This not being enough Salgado Macedonio also stands accused of having being bribed by one of Guerrero's most notorious narcos, "''La Barbie''". Salgado Macedonio is a member of MORENA who represented the state of Guerrero in the senate from 2021-24 and actually tried to run for the governorship of said state were it not for the electoral committee's decision to overturn his candidacy for obvious reasons.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Arista, Lidia|newspaper=Expansión  Mujeres|title=Caso Félix Salgado: cuando la voz de una víctima no basta en México|date=2021-02-26|url=https://mujeres.expansion.mx/especiales/2021/02/26/caso-felix-salgado-mexico-violencia-genero|retrieved=September 11, 2024}}</ref> Him being a known rapist notwithstanding, still holds MORENA's senate seat for Guerrero to this day and his daughter, Evelyn Salgado, actually did win the governorship of the state under the same party.
* [[Pedro Salmerón]], yet another serial sex offender and harraser who in his capacity as professor at ITAM and UNAM universities respectively, was accused by various individual students and feminist collectives from both colleges for his behaviour. Once again AMLO came to his defense and accused "the opposition" of coming after Salmerón for "political reasons". He was the president's chosen for ambassadorship to [[Republic of Panama|Panama]] and whose bid was actually rejected by Panama themselves once again for obvious reasons.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Infobae|title=AMLO volvió a respaldar a Félix Salgado y Pedro Salmerón ante señalamientos por acoso sexual|date=2022-01-24|url=https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2022/01/24/amlo-volvio-a-respaldar-a-felix-salgado-y-pedro-salmeron-ante-senalamientos-por-acoso-sexual/|retrieved=September 11, 2024}}</ref>
* Adán Augusto López, an ex-governor of AMLO's home state (Tabasco) who, according to documents hacked and leaked by the anarchist group 'Guacamaya' from Mexico's very own National Security agency (SEDENA), purposely appointed several state level police officers whom he knew had strong ties to the CJNG (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, one of the largest and most powerful criminal organizations not just in Mexico (where its second only to the Sinaloa Cartel) but in the world as well) in order to legitimize his mandate there and stay out of trouble with the cartel.   Quite shortly after the leak, AMLO of course came to his defense much in the same vein of Salgado Macedonio's accusations, claiming that Adán Augusto was "an honest man"<ref>{{Web citation|title=“Adán es un hombre honesto”: AMLO rechaza reportes sobre que secretario nombró a mandos policiacos con presunto nexo criminal|date=2022-10-17|url=https://www.animalpolitico.com/politica/amlo-adan-hombre-honesto-sedena-leaks|retrieved=September 12, 2024}}</ref>. He served as AMLO's Secretary of State and after the June 2024 election, he's now MORENA's senator for Tabasco and holds the position akin to majority leader in the US senate.
* Rosalinda López, Adán Augusto's now defunct sister, who most recently held a seat at the senate for Tabasco (and MORENA) was however between 2020-23 the general administrator of the federal audit for the Mexican equivalent of the IRS, and in said capacity, she received almost half a billion pesos in various contracts through a complex web<ref name=":1" /> starting with his husband, MORENA's Chiapas governor Rutilio Escandón, granting hundreds of millions in state funds -state funds which Chiapas, Mexico's poorest state very much needed- to shell companies of the Carballo Zurita sisters. Emilio Carballo Zurita, their brother and head of the family, then siphoned this money to himself and his wife's accounts in order for it to finally end up with mr Zurita's boss's: Rosalinda López<ref>{{Web citation|author=Higareda, Diana|newspaper=Latinus|title=Operador de Rosalinda López, número dos del SAT, recibe contratos por 478 mdp del gobierno de Chiapas|date=2023-08-08|url=https://latinus.us/mexico/2023/8/8/operador-de-rosalinda-lopez-numero-dos-del-sat-recibe-contratos-por-478-mdp-del-gobierno-de-chiapas-93923.html|retrieved=September 12, 2024}}</ref>.
* Carlos Lomelí, who worked as a representative of the federal government in Jalisco; and is now to take the oath as this state's senator (in both instances for MORENA) was discovered in 2019 to own -either directly or via family members- a complex network of several pharmaceutical shell companies operating in the state selling overpriced drugs to the state's own health sector. Had it not been for the Jalisco justice department conveniently dropping their several cases against him, he would've been charged with influence peddling, bribery, misappropriation of state funds and conflict of interest; however, the investigation against his companies themselves did not stop<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Animal Político|title=Función Pública tiene 7 investigaciones contra Carlos Lomelí y sus empresas|date=2019-07-15|url=https://www.animalpolitico.com/2019/07/investigacion-carlos-lomeli-exdelegado-funcion-publica|retrieved=September 12, 2024}}</ref>.
* Martí Batres, now the current mayor of Mexico City under MORENA, is a nefariously corrupt official who became -in-famous in 1999 when in his tenure as a member of the Mexico City local congress he alongside other PRD legislators carried out the distribution of milk to sell to marginalized communities for a cheap price. This milk however was thoroughly contaminated with literal fecal matter and was as a matter fact, not even milk at all<ref>{{Web citation|author=Mejía, Francisco|newspaper=Crónica|title=Los pasos de Batres|date=2023-06-23|url=https://www.cronica.com.mx/metropoli/pasos-batres.html|retrieved=September 13, 2024.}}</ref>. More recently however, whilst ruling over the city as major, it became known in early march 2024 that the water supply in some 9 municipalities within the Benito Juárez delegation was contaminated with noxiously large amounts of oil and/or gasoline. Instead of immediately closing the well which supplied these localities however, Batres chose to wait a week before doing anything about the issue, and in between, disregarded the matter as unimportant and fake clearly risking the lives of hundreds or even thousands of citizens who consumed said water and quite quickly became hospitalized <ref>{{Web citation|author=Vázquez Herrera, Olivia|newspaper=Infobae|title=Tras crisis de agua contaminada en Benito Juárez, recuerdan cuando Martí Batres repartió leche con heces fecales|date=2024-04-11|url=https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2024/04/11/tras-crisis-de-agua-contaminada-en-benito-juarez-recuerdan-cuando-marti-batres-repartio-leche-con-heces-fecales/|retrieved=September 13, 2024}}</ref>.

=== Policy ===
In 2021, he announced that Mexico's strategic minerals such as lithium will be nationalized.<ref>[https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/10/amlo-morena-cfe-federal-commission-lithium-nationalization-energy-independence AMLO Is Nationalizing Mexico’s Lithium Supply] by Kurt Hackbarth on DSA-adjacent [[Jacobin Magazine]]</ref><ref>[https://kjzz.org/content/1722162/mexican-energy-reform-proposal-would-nationalize-lithium-production Mexican energy reform proposal would nationalize lithium production] by Murphy Woodhouse on KJZZ</ref>

In June 2022, he condemned the U.S. blockade on [[Republic of Cuba|Cuba]] and called it a "[[genocide]]" and "tremendous violation of human rights."<ref>{{News citation|author=Ben Norton|newspaper=[[Multipolarista]]|title=Mexico’s President AMLO condemns US blockade of Cuba as ‘genocide’ and ‘tremendous violation of human rights’|date=2022-06-07|url=https://multipolarista.com/2022/06/07/mexico-amlo-us-blockade-cuba-genocide/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220611020127/https://multipolarista.com/2022/06/07/mexico-amlo-us-blockade-cuba-genocide/|archive-date=2022-06-11|retrieved=2022-06-17}}</ref>

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