Obrador, however, has repeatedly warned that he would not remain silent if Trump continues with his “hate policies” and further “insults” Mexicans, as he has repeatedly done since he has been in office. If relations with the US don’t go in the right direction, Mexico’s new president actually has a variety of other options, given the strained relations between Washington and its allies, and the recently-started trade wars, Gerald Horne, the Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, believes.

“AMLO has more than one card to play. Number one, I expect him to tighten relations with China, I expect him to tighten relations with Japan and expect him to tighten relations with the European Union,” Horne told RT, adding that Obrador’s win spells the end to the “collaborationist approach” to Trump, shown by the outgoing Mexico president, Peña Nieto.

Moreover, AMLO’s decisive victory might signal a resurgence of the left in Central and Latin America, whose ranks have suffered a chain of setbacks over the past decade, Horne believes. And if Mexico would cozy up with socialist governments, it certainly “would cause sleepless nights in Washington.”

“It revived the Latin American left, which had suffered in recent years because of the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in Brazil and the stepping down of Kirchner in Argentina. Now you have Latin America’s second largest economy and its largest Spanish-speaking nation, now able and capable of aligning with Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua,” Horne said.

In Australia it is virtually a national sport to count the number of pre election promises that are broken once elected. All shades of the political spectrum have been seen to lose their honour.

Instead of judging him for things that may or may not happen, I think it would be better to wait and judge him for what he actually does or doesn’t do.