Mexico: A Unique Way to Communicate by Andrés Manuel López Obrador | AMLO holds daily and direct meetings with the media

Andrés Manuel López ObradorAMLO, as President Mexicans call him by his acronym, is a very unique politician. In his folksy style, he resembles Pepe Mujica, his vocabulary – albeit much quieter – for Hugo Chávez and his tenacity to run for office for Lula. But no president — past or present — can live up to his mark Communication Government actions.

He has already duly crossed a thousand mornings Press conferences It provides very early. Monday through Friday and beginning December 3, 2018. For his compatriot, the philosopher and communicator Fernando Buen Abad, with this ritual he was a “A half struggle A new kind of liberation”. In America, where his neighbor listens to him, they invented another acronym for him. Journalists started calling him Amlong because he took 28 minutes to answer a question. It was a joint speech with Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on January 10. After the conference.

Neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war

AMLO – Reporter Stella Colony says day of Mexico in Argentina — “is doing an invincible job as president and as his leader Communication policy BREAKING THE CYCLE OF LIES I know him well, I did a long interview with him during his time as mayor of the Federal District, and he already had today’s ideas. Because you are in a difficult position The US is waging a bitter war on Russia and Ukraine for its neutrality in the conflict.”.

His views on foreign policy issues made him a benchmark for Latin American progressivism, even when the region’s other presidents disagreed with him on the war in Europe. While he has maintained a strained relationship with the United States because he has not regulated his view from the world, López Obrador strikes a delicate balance with his powerful neighbor on critical issues such as migration and drug trafficking. During his reign, 200 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries were completed. A history plagued by invasions, interventions and the building of walls, always in one direction: North-South.

López Obrador did not travel to the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles He cheated on Biden in 2022. Each time, he highlights Cuba’s dignity in the face of more than 60 years of US blockade. He clashed with Spain over its neocolonial revisionism and declared the conqueror Hernán Cortés the first fraud in Mexico’s history. In a counterpoint made public in 2019, he demanded in a letter that King Philip VI apologize for the massacre of the original people. He did the same with Pope Francis for the role of the Church of Rome.

His sober, didactic discourse, often supported by graphics, videos or artistic interventions, with appeals to Latin American history and its different cultural manifestations, made him a key communicator of his own politics. In that morning meeting with journalists, who regularly describes his main idea of ​​”Mexican humanity”, AMLO practices direct meetings with the media with a striking system.

He usually nuances his ideas with images of recitals by famous musicians such as Armando Manzanero, Joan Manuel Serrat, Silvio Rodríguez or his countryman Los Tigres del Norte. The most popular type. Mornings was not a creation born of his presidency. When he was the mayor of the Federal District (2000-2005), he already had this kind of face-to-face contact. The difference is that his communication policy has become a habit that will continue until the end of his term, which lasts until 2024. His most critical right-wing press is already citing the “lies” he allegedly told. overwhelmed by the weight of the daily agenda established by the President.

When he came to government AMLO launched what he defined as the fourth transformation, something as simple as expanding the rights of the most marginalized people, especially access to health. when Already entering his fifth year as president, he has made morning hours a key tool in troubling the PRI opposition (Institutional Revolutionary Party), National Action Party (PAN), Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) and Movement of Citizens (MC).

Today he is challenged from within and without, but he does not ignore criticism from the mainstream press or attacks from the right. The last rally in Zócalo square was chanted against budget cuts by the INE (National Electoral Institute), an opposition organization focused on government corruption. But on November 27 of last year, MORENA (National Regeneration Movement), PT (Workers’ Party) and (PVEM) Mexico’s Green Ecology Party, which is in coalition in the government, doubled that number under the same circumstances. Act in favor of his administration.

On September 6, 2021, Boon Abad wrote on his Telesure blog: “Make two, three… many mornings. ‘Los Mananares’ cannot be the only cases of communication orientation in a country as complex and diverse as ours. Two, three… create many mornings with different forms and purposes, united in a single diverse project of economic, political, ethical, aesthetic and poetic liberation.

At those early-morning interventions where journalists, photojournalists and cameramen line up to enter the presidential palace, AMLO moves willingly without ducking questions. His relaxed, direct style, with spicy phrases, unsettles the powers that be, anticipating his presidential retirement.

In February, he announced the nationalization of lithium through an executive order — Mexico would be the tenth country in the world to have the reserves — and challenged the US secretary of state for statements he saw as meddling in internal politics related to INE. “I tell Mr. Blinken that Mexico has more democracy than the United States. Here the people rule, there the oligarchy. It was from that place that he wanted to speak to the people without filter. With their own social networks and an audience reaching 8 million people. A real AMLO, who turns 70 next November 13, was celebrated last Saturday before a crowd at the Zócalo, which marked the 85th anniversary of the nationalization of oil during the government of Lázaro Cárdenas.

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