The Mexican Model The Mexican Model Does Morena’s success offer a blueprint for the left? Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum shows her thumb after casting her vote in the country's first judicial elections on June 1, 2025. While reforming the judiciary was the right instinct, Morena’s judicial reform was so reckless, rushed, and erratic that it left wide openings for oligarchic influence to persist. AMLO summarized the objective as such: “to separate political power from economic power.” But the results have been mixed. There is another authoritarian dimension to Morena’s political project that is often overlooked: the formation of a new model of civilian−military government.