The world is a mess, I don't think we can view the world anymore as Left versus Right. The fight is Nationalists versus Globalists and AMLO is a nationalist but also he is a classic liberal, not far left, so he is very pro free speech and liberties in general.
There's alternatives scales that better describes the situation, for instance the 2 dimensional one with left - right on X axis, and authoritarian - libertarian on the Y axis. Still not perfect but better.
Only using left - right is crazy because both sides has borrowed stuff from each others, it's a complete mess really. Seems like we're just rotating, left hat moved up to authoritarian (a totalitarian state basically), while the right has moved down to libertarian (free speech, freedom in general). But in the sense of traditional right and left we're all centrists now.
"Right" would be Somalia, a country that has no government at all and anarchy capitalism.
"Left" would be north Korea, a country where the state owns everything.
The world is a mess, I don't think we can view the world anymore as Left versus Right. The fight is Nationalists versus Globalists and AMLO is a nationalist but also he is a classic liberal, not far left, so he is very pro free speech and liberties in general.
There's alternatives scales that better describes the situation, for instance the 2 dimensional one with left - right on X axis, and authoritarian - libertarian on the Y axis. Still not perfect but better.
Only using left - right is crazy because both sides has borrowed stuff from each others, it's a complete mess really. Seems like we're just rotating, left hat moved up to authoritarian (a totalitarian state basically), while the right has moved down to libertarian (free speech, freedom in general). But in the sense of traditional right and left we're all centrists now.
"Right" would be Somalia, a country that has no government at all and anarchy capitalism. "Left" would be north Korea, a country where the state owns everything.