The National Regeneration Movement and the conquest of power in Mexico

Abstract

The article makes a historical review of the political trajectory of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, from the 1980s to 2018, when he won the elections for the presidency of Mexico. It analyzes his passage through the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), his performance as head of government of Mexico City and his rise as a political figure of the left with national influence, managing to create his own political movement, the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), which later became a political party and which was one of the bases of his electoral triumph in 2018. After the historical review, the factors of victory are analyzed, and alternative working hypotheses are proposed to interpret the arrival to power of MORENA from a perspective of alliances with the real factors of power in Mexico.

Keywords

• amlo
• mexico
• elections
• morena
• political history