Abstract

ANAYA MUNOZ, Alejandro  and  GARIBAY VILLALBA, Montserrat. Mexico’s human rights foreign policy during the administration of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Foro int [online]. 2025, vol.65, n.4, pp.1095-1136.  Epub Nov 14, 2025. ISSN 0185-013X.  https://doi.org/10.24201/fi.3127.

This article provides a detailed account of Mexico’s foreign policy on human rights during the six-year term of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). It examines both continuity and change relative to previous administrations, with particular attention to tensions between the principle of sovereignty and non-intervention, and the policy of openness to international scrutiny and monitoring. The analysis identifies continuity in key actions aimed at maintaining Mexico’s traditional openness, a defining feature of its human rights foreign policy since the beginning of the century. It also notes the persistence of “denial” behaviors-characteristic of a more “sovereigntist” foreign policy-that have been evident since the Peña Nieto administration. At the same time, the AMLO government introduced changes suggesting a growing preference for sovereignty and non-intervention as foundational principles of Mexico’s foreign policy on human rights. The article concludes that, in the overall balance between openness and sovereignty, the latter has continued to gain ground-though not to the point of entirely displacing the former.

Keywords : openness policy; international scrutiny; sovereignty; non-intervention; continuity and change; denial.

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