Biden should take a closer look at Mexico’s democratic decline | Opinion
He has also used his daily press conferences to attack journalists by name. This is troubling in a country already considered the most dangerous for journalists, with 13 killed in 2022. One journalist, Ciro Gómez Leyva, faced an assassination attempt in Mexico City the day after the president insulted him.
López Obrador has consistently sought to dismantle democratic institutions such as the National Election Institute and the National Institute for Access to Information. He has also worked to weaken the country’s nascent anti-corruption system. In response to the Mexican Supreme Court blocking some of his measures, López Obrador accused the justices of being beholden to criminals and threatened to institute direct elections for the judiciary.
President Joe Biden has made the mistake of giving López Obrador a pass on his authoritarian behavior because of the Mexican president’s cooperative stance on the border. But Biden’s approach produces only limited short-term results. Worse, it fails to recognize how the erosion of democracy under López Obrador strengthens the power and reach of the cartels and exacerbates the conditions that spur migration over the U.S. border.
Biden’s Mexico policy also assumes that Mexico’s 23-year commitment to democracy will continue unchallenged. But democracy has already declined enough that the Economist Intelligence Unit last year downgraded Mexico from a “flawed democracy” to a “hybrid regime.” This label is given to countries that hold elections but do so with “substantial irregularities.” It is clear that López Obrador would prefer something like the one-party system that governed Mexico until 2000.
Daniel Batlle is an adjunct fellow covering Latin America at the Hudson Institute. He wrote this column for The Dallas Morning News.
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