Economy

How President AMLO’s Policies Lifted 13.4 Million Mexicans Out of Poverty

rt Hackbarth, writer for Jacobin and host of Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast, joins the show to discuss Mexico’s historic achievement under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador: 13.4 million people lifted out of poverty in six years, including 2 million from extreme poverty.

Hackbarth explains how AMLO’s social programs, wage increases, and labor reforms fueled this unprecedented progress and how the US continues to interfere, impose tariffs, and pressure Mexico, seeking to block its path to independent development.

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Rania Khalek

Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.

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