Bury Neoliberalism in the Ballot Box

The renewed attack of the international financial press against Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s government on the eve of the elections on Sunday June 6 is a reminder that the present government is one of the main opponents to the global political hegemony of the transnational companies and financial capital.

Neoliberalism is not only the imposition of a package of “pro-market” economic policies, but a scheme to subordinate the public interest to private interests. Neoliberalism means the loss of democratic processes and of national sovereignty, by leaving public policy in the hands of technocrats who serve private banking and corporate interests. Neoliberalism also promotes individualism, competition, consumerism, machismo, racism, and treachery. The neoliberal cultural project seeds fear and social division in to destroy communitarian bonds and democratic traditions, the medium for critical consciousness and popular resistance.

In 2018 the Mexican people rose up against the neoliberal hydra with an overwhelming vote in favor of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. With this historic act, 30 million people defeated the monster of false democracy, authoritarian neoliberalism, and neocolonial submission that characterized the government for so many decades... A vote for Morena is a vote against the neoliberal system. It’s placing a bet for a truly inclusive, plural, and democratic future.