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Not to make a weak appeal to authority but have you spent much time in Mexico and much time speaking with locals? Those initiative are widely viewed as either failures, DOA, or political chips to appeal to the Morena base (which even then fails).

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I have spoken to "locals" but I wouldn't call that a representative sample. She's been in power for less than 2 years so maybe let's hold off before drawing any conclusions. They may well turn out as failures but it's certainly too early to make any conclusions when there's still hundreds of groundbreaking ceremonies that haven't even happened

FWIW she's still one of the most popular leaders in all of South America

no... Mexico is in north america

and if you follow Mexican politics, her politics are almost entirely a continuation of the last president who was her political mentor so it's reasonably well understood what trajectory her term is on

I meant to type Latin America. Too late to edit.

You mean to say she will reach her term limit and step down?

mexican presidents serve a single term... I'm sure you mean well but you have lot of reading to do about mexican politics :)

exactly as amlo did bud

To be fair, we Brazilians also like her very much. She’s a Mexican Lula and we wish her success.

> speaking with locals?

Why? Are they experts in bootstrapping industrial bases? Or healthcare? Or transport?

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