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I think you're mixing up your populists here... AMLO (Andrés Manuel López Obrador) and Lula are left-wing (so you can maybe call them communists if you want to

• alephnerd 3y ago
  Nope. This is my point exactly. All 3 are electoral authoritarians that came to power due to public anger at a corrupt status quo (Maluf in Brazil in the 90s-early 2000s, Coalgate/2Ggate/Jan Lokpal in India from 2011-13, and 2017 gas price hike in Mexico) and enabled by cheap populism and campaigning directly to the subaltern of their countries. Furthermore, all 3 are products of dysfunctional democracies where criminalization of the electoral process has been the norm since the 1990s. While electoral institutions Ann all 3 remain somewhat strong (as is reflected in the EIU's democracy index), civil society has died in India, Brazil, and Mexico. Furthermore, all 3 leaders are notoriously anti-ideological in the sense that they will take right leaning and left leaning positions on policies at a whim depending on the electoral winds