Claudia Sheinbaum, a Nobel Prize-winning climate scientist, will become Mexico’s first female president after winning a landslide election victory and promising to continue the work of her mentor and outgoing leader, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Accepting her victory, Sheinbaum thanked Lopez Obrador, calling him “an exceptional, unique man who has transformed Mexico for the better.”“We made history!” Sheinbaum told a crowd early Monday morning in the Zocalo square in the heart of Mexico City. Sheinbaum, who will take office on Oct. 1, is the first woman to win a general election in the United States, Mexico or Canada. She has vowed to improve security but has given few details and the election, the most violent in Mexico’s modern history with 38 candidates murdered, has reinforced massive security problems. More people have been killed – over 185,000 – during the mandate of Lopez Obrador than during any other administration in Mexico’s modern history, although the homicide rate has been inching down.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald June 03, 2024 23:44 UTC