There's first of all the uncertainty of what does he really want to do and how much does he really want to transform the society, and second, there's the uncertainty of how much will the let him, how much margin will he have to carry out some of the more fundamental or structural changes there.

Live from Mexico City, Laura Carlsen reports on Mexican politics on the eve of the 2018 presidential elections - from Andrés Manuel López Obrador's broadly left-populist campaign for increasing social spending - to the the deep, structural crises of 30 years of neoliberal capitalism facing Mexico's next president.

Laura previewed the elections in her latest report for Hecho en América.

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Laura Carlsen

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Laura Carlsen is the director of the Americas program at the Center for International Policy.

Not radical, but very different: An election report from Mexico.

Laura Carlsen

This was always going to happen: Lessons for the left on the loss of Bernie Sanders.

Way more is possible: On depoliticization, resurgent radicalism and seeing the revolutionary horizon.

Don't let them get what they want: Superdelegates against Sanders.

The real change hasn't arrived yet: Mexican politics in AMLO's first year.

The hollow centrist: Joe Biden's four decades working against the working class.

We must have a demand: Towards a transformative, Black-lead reparations movement.

NAFTA, AMLO and the borders of national sovereignty in a neoliberal world.

If you are stronger, we are stronger: Radical women unite in Zapatista territory.

An immigrant's path beyond fear, a feminist's road towards peace.

A view on Trump and Mexico, from the other side of a future wall.

It was the state: Ayotzinapa's crime scene spreads upward.

Striking teachers in Oaxaca face neoliberal cuts and government bullets.