AMLO, Mexico’s president-elect, is sending worrying signals

SINCE WINNING Mexico’s presidential election in July, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a left-wing populist, has been in power but not in office. In October AMLO, as he is known, summoned Mexicans to vote on whether to cancel a huge airport under construction for Mexico City. A small sample voted to scrap it; he promised to do so, thus preventing the expansion of links between Mexico and the outside world. His Morena party and its allies, in control of congress since September, passed a law barring any civil servant from earning more than the president, who plans to take a 60% pay cut. AMLO will be inaugurated on December 1st (see article); the omens for his six-year term already look worrying.