New Mexican president to swear in today

The presidential ceremony will have a total of around 900 guests, 400 of them foreigners, and 20 of them Heads of States or Governments. Some 1,800 media have been accredited for the event.

Just as the G-20 summit in Argentina comes to an end, the new President of Mexico, Manuel A. López Obrador will take office on Saturday, 1 December.


The new president is backed by the widest and most solid social-electoral majority ever known in this important Latin American country, due to its demographic and economic weight.


The incoming leader has been marking, since his victory, positions of independence and adjustment to his electoral program, against the first pressures by the influential Mexican oligarchy, and its powerful North American neighbour.


In line with the above, the list of guests invited to the swearing ceremony. For example, the President of the Democratic Arab Republic of Saharawi (RASD), Braham Ghali, that will not only dislike the Moroccan monarchy but also its most important supporters, Spain and France.

The same goes for the invitation issued to the Venezuelan Government, thus breaking the blockade maintained in practice by both the OAS and the so-called Grupo de Lima.


The presidential ceremony will have a total of around 900 guests, 400 of them foreigners, and 20 of them Heads of States or Governments. Some 1,800 media have been accredited for the event.

Figures that perfectly express both the importance that the Aztec country maintain in the expectations of the international community, and the special peculiarities of the new president.

The new Mexican president faces really difficult challenges: an internal reality marked by social and economic inequalities, violence and the power of a complex relationship of drug traffickers, politicians and businessmen, which wear out the country in an unofficial war. During 6 years of mandate of the outgoing president Enrique Pena Nieto, some 120,000 dead have been counted in this war. 


Full of difficulties are also the relations with its powerful neighbour, the US, currently led by a threatening President. But the new Mexican president is a man of firm convictions who is not willing to speak from an inferior point of view. Which is a serious problem for the US only used to talk to lackeys.

Back to the presidential ceremony, on the American side Vice-President Mike Pence, and the always presentable daughter of Trump, Ivanka, will be attending.

While until now there are no clear reports of representations of Brazil, Colombia or other countries of the right wing-governed south of the continent.

It is true that Manuel López Obrador declared, shortly after his overwhelming victory, that his gaze was not focused on the South of the continent, however the victory of the ultra-rightist Jairo Bolsonaro in Brazil may have marked a change of perspective, since Mexico seems destined to become involuntarily the last frontier against the advance of the most ultra-conservative and neoliberal right in the region.