In July, for the first time in history, Mexico elected a left-wing president who won by a landslide on the promise of profound changes to the country’s political, economic and social institutions. Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Morena’s victory has vested the new administration with unprecedented legitimacy to fulfill these promises, but the details of the policies remain unexplained. Join us for a conference that will examine López Obrador’s main proposals, potential challenges for implementation and the changes to expect over the next six years. The conference will bring together high-level public officials, scholars and journalists from the U.S. and Mexico. Agenda: 10 a.m. – Registration 10:30 a.m. – Welcome and Opening Remarks 10:45 a.m. – Panel 1: Is Morena a Political Party?

• Rafael Fernández de Castro, Director, Center for U.S.- Mexican Studies, UC San Diego

• Kathleen Bruhn, University of California Santa Barbara
• Jesús Silva Herzog Márquez, School of Government, Insituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
• Gibran Ramírez Reyes, Political and Social Science Department, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• Moderator: Lynn Stephen, Fellow, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies

• Gina Cruz, Mexican Senate, President of the Senate’s Commission on North America
• Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times
• Juan Carlos Moreno Brid, Economics Department, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• Moderator: Gastón Melo, Executive Director, Instituto de la Mexicanidad