Despite just taking office on December
1st, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is really shaking things up. Within
his first 100 days he's "answered more questions from the press, flown in more economy-class
flights, posed for more selfies with admiring citizens and visited more
genuinely risky areas with little or no security than several combined decades
of his predecessors” (Sherman 2019). His approval rating has surpassed 80%
which is impressive to me. He’s a man of the people and not afraid to prove it,
even in risky areas. Every week he announces something new, which is great, he’s
spicing things up in an otherwise sedentary country, but could it be too much
too soon? Sometimes he would announce more plans before enacting on previous
plans, overshadowing them. Lopez divided his army and navy to launch a military
assault on fuel theft gangs which were stealing from refineries and pipelines.
You’d think that this would provide the country with more oil since it was burning
off the leeches, but it created fuel shortages instead. It will likely be a
delayed effect before the people of Mexico see better gas prices. Lopez is
proving himself to be a man of the people. He got rid of the presidential
airplane, residence, motorcade, and his security to show his people he isn’t
afraid of them. I’m impressed, but I hope he doesn’t let it get to his head,
Mexico is still infested with Cartel.
David Pate
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