Translated from Spanish by NACLA. This is a co-publication with Revista Común.
The June 2 elections consolidated a political and symbolic system change in Mexico. In the presidential race, Claudia Sheinbaum of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) won nearly 60 percent of the vote, twice the percentage garnered by opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez of the National Action Party (PAN). Thirteen years after its creation, Morena—founded in 2011 and since headed by outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)—will now control 23 state governorships, 243 seats in…
