The Multidimensional Impact of Neoliberalism on Mexico

The November issue of Latin American Perspectives that I edited deals with the legacy of the Mexican Revolution and how it was buried by neoliberal governments beginning in the mid-1980s and then revived by Andrés Manuel López Obrador. An article by Tommaso Gravante asks the intriguing question why the forced disappearance of 47 students of the teachers college at Ayotzanapa generated such national attention in contrast to other flagrant human rights abuses in the past. My own introduction poses the question first raised by Mexico’s outstanding intellectual Pablo González Casanova, should López Obrador emphasize anti-corruption over anti-neoliberalism or vice-versa.