NeoLiberalism has been openly accused of failing to deliver on its loud predictions by the new Mexican president AMLO, with him promising to reverse practices which divided society and left a small section ultra rich, with the majority behind in poverty.

Just as it happened 50 years ago when the French people revolted against its national government and Mexico suffered a similar insurrection by its population right before the international Olympic Games, a sort of global series of movements in Japan, the US and other countries followed the infection demonstrating against their own political leaderships.

Three decades of neoliberalism in Mexico: the destruction of society.   "The privatization of social benefits and services requires state subsidies and allows the privatization of profits and the socialization of losses"

However pointed was his first speech, AMLO hardly mentioned the just signed NAFTA agreement with USA and Canada which Trump is not keen on, and could give AMLO the opportunity to change negative conditions during the acceptance congress debates.

While Trump and AMLO are opposites in their political ideologies, they share their nationalism to their benefit and it's showing in AMLO's project to create a 25 Km strip of Mexico all along the northen border with USA to lower taxes to attract national and international investment to create jobs, plus doubling the minimum wage in that zone to offer an incentive for Mexicans and central Americans to forgo jumping the border.   

In fact already 12 billion dollars are earmarked for the project with the US pledging to pay for a third of it.

AMLO and Trump are phoning each other some times for long conversations which is a good sign for both countries, and perhaps also for direct investment in the rest of Central American countries at the urging of AMLO.

Their likely next president has been compared to Hugo Chavez but he actually has much in common with Donald Trump.

By Michael J. Ard • June 21, 2018  (The American Conservative)