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Tuesday briefing: How a leftwing climate scientist became Mexico’s new president

In today’s newsletter: After a landslide victory, Claudia Sheinbaum is Mexico’s first female, and Jewish, leader – and her problems have only just started

The Guardian - UK

Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum poised to secure supermajority after historic win

The leader of the Morena party could pass legislation and budgets unopposed through congress

The Guardian - US

Mexico elects its first female president. How the country got here before the U.S.

Mexico's election results are a strong argument that waiting for progress to just happen doesn't work.

Fortune

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Mexicans Celebrate Election Of First Woman President

Thousands of singing, flag-waving people packed a downtown square to celebrate Claudia Sheinbaum's ground-breaking victory as Mexico's first woman president.

International Business Times

Mexico has elected its first female president. Claudia Sheinbaum inherits a country ravaged by violence – and searching for hope

On October 17, 1953, constitutional reform granted women the right to vote in Mexico, and two years later, women cast ballots for the first time in a federal election.

The Conversation

What's Behind Claudia Sheinbaum's Election Victory?

Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman to be elected president of the Latin American nation on Monday.

International Business Times

Climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum to become Mexico's first woman president

The former head of Mexico City's government beat opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez.

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Sam Antonacci reaches base all six times up, sparking White Sox in rout of Twins

Antonacci went 4-for-4 with two doubles, a walk and his 12th hit-by-pitch of the season, tied for the most in baseball.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ruling leftist party candidate Sheinbaum elected Mexico's first female president

Climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum held an irreversible lead Sunday in the race that would make her Mexico’s first female president, according to an official quick count.

France 24

Mexico set to elect first female president in historic vote

Propelled by the popularity of outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the Morena party is projected to win.

Al Jazeera

Mexico votes in election certain to bring country’s first female president

Claudia Sheinbaum is the presidential front-runner, with 20,000 other posts up for grabs in the country’s biggest election ever

The Guardian - US

Mexico's Presidential Election: Populist Policies Vs. Anti-Cartel Stance

Mexico's presidential election presents a critical choice between continuity and change, with two female candidates offering distinct visions for the count...

Top News

Mexican officials criticise volunteer searcher after she finds more bodies

Ceci Flores has accused officials of ignoring the plight of Mexico’s more than 100,000 missing people

The Independent UK

In Mexico’s Historic Vote, Politics Are Little Changed

A Puente poll represents a rare survey of the Mexican public by U.S. media.

Texas Observer

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The Guardian - US

Amlo promised to transform Mexico, but he leaves it much the same

Many voters are better off, but the Mexican president failed to solve bigger problems like violence and corruption

The Guardian - US

‘It’s become a battleground’: Mexico’s local candidates face deadly violence

A candidate for mayor in Guanajuato state has the army on his roof after the candidate he replaced was shot dead – one of 30 killed so far in this campaign

France 24

Señora Presidenta: Mexico set to vote in first woman president

On June 2, millions of Mexicans are set to make history by voting in their first-ever female president with the two leading candidates both being women; Dr Claudia Sheinbaum from the leftist Morena party, and her right-wing rival, Xóchitl Gálvez. Annette Young heads to Mexico to ask what does this…

International Business Times

Mexican Presidential Candidate Far From Hometown Hero

In the rural Mexican town where opposition presidential candidate Xochitl Galvez grew up, the smiling face of her ruling party rival looks out from posters plastered around the streets.

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'Heart Of The Left': Ruling Party Fights To Keep Mexico City

A cable car soars above brightly painted houses, winding streets and evocative murals in a densely populated Mexico City neighborhood pivotal to the ruling party's chances of keeping control of the capital in upcoming elections.

International Business Times

Threats And Bullets: Mexico's Candidates Risk Lives To Compete

The warning left Margarita Galan with no choice but to abandon her mayoral bid in a Mexican town where three candidates have already been murdered ahead of June elections.

Latin Times

Key points to know as the biggest election in Mexico's history approaches

Mexicans will head to the polls on June 2 to choose the successor of Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Top News

Mexico's President Proposes Full-Wage Pensions in Election Bid

Mexican President López Obrador proposes guaranteeing full-wage pensions for retirees, among other reforms in a bid to attract voters in upcoming elections.

The Guardian - US

Carriers sneak life-saving drugs over border as Mexico battles opioid deaths

People forced to bring overdose-reversal drug naloxone from US, as critics accuse Mexican government of creating shortage

Latin Times

Organized Crime, Populism, Underinvestment: Mexico's Top Challenges in Key Electoral Year

A report by the Baker Institute outlined the main reasons for optimism and caution in the country as it gets ready to elect AMLO's successor

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