The Mexican Model.

In a world increasingly overtaken by right-wing populism, Mexico is a rare case where a progressive government has remained in control through mul-tiple elections and made solid advances. Conservative parties have mostly vanished from the political landscape, while Morena, the ruling left-wing party, holds a supermajority in Congress, governs twenty-three of thirty-two states, and has led the country under two presidents. Current president Claudia Sheinbaum's approval rating stands at 76 percent. Never in Mexico's still-nascent democratic history has a single party amassed such sweeping power.In the 2024 Mexican election, the left-wing party Morena maintained control of the presidency with its candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, who won with an overwhelming 60 percent of the vote, compared to the 53 percent with which former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador had won in 2018. Morena's tremendous electoral success has generated the curiosity and enthusiasm of the international left. In contrast to other countries where the far right has risen as an electoral force, Mexico presents a striking case of the consolidation of a left party's hegemonyI do not share Humberto's classification of Mexico as an authoritarian country. It's fair to question how the judicial reform was implemented, but argu-ing that the country is undemocratic because it challenged the mechanism used to elect the judiciary lacks critical context.In her analysis, Viri identifies the key paradoxes of Morena's left-wing project. She notes that hte party has eleveated milliosn from poverty yet preserved some of the pillars of the neoliberal and oligarchic state. She also highlights the contradictions in some of Morena's most cherished initiatives, such as the judicial reform, which is intended to democratize access to justice but is likely to entrench the capture of judicial institutions by powerful interest groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]