Union College Union | Digital Works Honors Theses Student Work 4-2019 Mexico: Neoliberalism, Popular Grievances, and the Rise of Andrés Manuel López Obrador Irving Cortes-Martinez Union College - Schenectady, NY Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalworks.union.edu/theses Part of the Anthropology Commons, Comparative Politics Commons, Economic History Commons, Indigenous Studies Commons, Latin American History Commons, and the Political History Commons Recommended Citation Cortes-Martinez, Irving, "Mexico: Neoliberalism, Popular Grievances, and the Rise of Andrés Manuel López Obrador" (2019). Honors Theses. 2279. https://digitalworks.union.edu/theses/2279 This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Work at Union | Digital Works. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of Union | Digital Works. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Mexico: Neoliberalism, Popular Grievances, and the Rise of Andrés Manuel López Obrador By Irving Cortes-Martinez ************ Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Honors in the Department of Political Science and Latin American & Caribbean Studies (LACS) Union College June, 2019 1 Abstract: Cortes-Martinez, Irving. Mexico: Neoliberalism, Popular Grievances and the Rise of Andrés Manuel López Obrador Advisors: Robert Samet and Guillermina Seri Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commonly referred to as AMLO, has become Mexico’s first leftist president in over seven decades. He has promised to get rid of Mexico’s problems through a peaceful but radical transformation, while placing the needs of the people first. For the past three decades, the nation’s political and economic systems have failed to create positive results.