During the 2018 presidential election campaign, Mexico’s Andrés Manuel “AMLO” López Obrador promised to carry out what he called the “Fourth Transformation” — a continuation of the country’s first three ‘transformations’: independence from Spain, the Reform War, and the Mexican Revolution.
Consisting of eradicating political privileges, improving efficiency in combating violence, and reshaping the country’s infrastructure, the Fourth Transformation was a bold platform that helped AMLO win the election. Four years on, however, little of the program’s goals have been achieved — and just this week the president saw one of its landmark projects buried, at least for...
