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☆ Opinion | Mexico’s Women Are Speaking. Will a Female President Listen?
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Cristina Rivera Garza | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The Mexican government did not grant women the right to vote in national elections — or the right to hold public office on a national level — until Oct. 17, 1953. Now, almost 71 years later, for the first time two women are leading the race to be Mexico’s next president: Claudia Sheinbaum, who is the front-runner, and Xóchitl Gálvez. But they have been cautious about lingering too long on women’s issues in their campaigns, conspicuously tiptoeing around abortion and reproductive rights, seemingly out of deference to conservative voters. Neither candidate has put forth a strong agenda to serve the women who put them where they are today. To be fair, male candidates have not historically been required to present their agenda for women either.

Persons: Claudia Sheinbaum, Xóchitl, machismo, Sheinbaum, Gálvez, Felipe Calderón, Andrés Manuel López Obrador Locations: Mexico, U.S

☆ Mexico election: What to know about a historic presidential race
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Aditi Sangal | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Here’s who is running for president:Claudia SheinbaumThe 61-year-old Sheinbaum is a former Mexico City mayor and climate scientist. A longtime political ally of incumbent President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, she was the Mexico City environment secretary from 2000-2006 when he was mayor. Her close alignment with López Obrador has been both a blessing and a curse politically. (López Obrador has repeatedly dismissed whispers that he favors a candidate that he could influence, telling press in February that he would “retire completely” after his term.) For a relative newcomer, Galvez’s entry into the presidential race has gained impressive momentum, experts say.

Persons: Here’s, Claudia Sheinbaum, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Sheinbaum, López Obrador, she’s “, “, Lopez, •, Xóchitl, Vicente Fox, • Galvez, ” Jorge Álvarez Máynez, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, San Pedro Garza García, • Máynez, López, Myriam Guadalupe Castro Yáñez, Greg Abbott, Gálvez, CNN’s Rafael Romo, David Shortell Organizations: Mexico City, National Guard, PRI, PAN, Federal Electricity Commission, Institute for Economy, National Migration Institute, National School of Social, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Texas Gov, Washington Locations: Mexico City, Chiapas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Morelos, Puebla, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatán, Mexico, San, prohibitionism, UNAM, Texas, United States

☆ Why Mexico’s election is more important than ever for the United States
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Sofía Benavides | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

But it’s not just the massive scale of the event that makes it so important in the eyes of observers across the border in the United States. Key to facilitating this shift was the creation of the USMCA trade agreement, which came into effect in 2020 between Mexico, the United States and Canada. “Mexico committed to addressing the two main Mexican issues affecting the United States and that will determine the next election: migration and fentanyl. “But the United States also has to dismantle the network of traffickers within (its own borders). There is a significant network of organized crime in the United States that the administration must arrest, bring to trial, and whose activities it must restrict,” she added.

Persons: Mexico’s, it’s, – Claudia Sheinbaum, Xóchitl Gálvez, Xochitl Galvez, Quetzalli, Claudia Sheinbaum, Raquel Cunha, Reuters “, ”, Rafael Fernández de Castro Medina, Lila Abed, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, “, ” Abed, Abed, Ulises Ruiz, Raquel López Portillo Maltos, Jorge Alberto Schiavon Uriegas, López Obrador, Schiavon Uriegas, Carin Zissis, Sheinbaum, Zissis, Lopez Obrador, ¨, Chandan Khanna, “ México, Jose Luis Gonzalez, “ López Obrador Organizations: CNN, Sigamos, Reuters, Center for US, Mexico Studies, University of California, Mexico Institute, Wilson, Workers, AFP, Getty, Mexican Council, Foreign Relations, Center for Studies, Foreign, Trump, Biden, Americas Society, National Guard, Army, ¨ Trump, Border Patrol, Mexican Refugee Aid Commission, Mexican Army, National Security Law, CIA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republican, Democratic Locations: United States, Morena, Mexico City, Mexico, San Diego, China, Canada, Ukraine, Cerritos, Ciudad Guzman, Jalisco, “ Mexico, Americas, Piedras Negras, Eagle, , Texas, Operation Juarez, Ciudad Juarez

☆ Mexicans Are on the Verge of Electing Their First Female President
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Natalie Kitroeff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Ms. Sheinbaum, 61, is the clear front-runner in the Mexican election on Sunday, putting her in position to become the country’s first female president. Many Mexicans are wondering: Can she be her own leader? Or is she a pawn of the current president? “There’s this idea, because a lot of columnists say it, that I don’t have a personality,” Ms. Sheinbaum complained to reporters earlier this year. “That President Andrés Manuel López Obrador tells me what to do, that when I get to the presidency, he’s going to be calling me on the phone every day.”

Persons: Claudia Sheinbaum’s, Sheinbaum, “, ” Ms, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, he’s, ” Organizations: Mexico City Locations: Mexico

☆ Mexico’s next president will be a woman. But violence has overshadowed the glass ceiling being shattered.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Tara John | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Sheinbaum is riding on a wave of popularity with the support of her long-time ally, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and their leftist Morena party. Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador gestures during an event in Mexico City. It was a strategy that saw the son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman released on the orders of López Obrador in 2019 to avoid bloodshed. The Supreme Court upheld an opposition complaint and ordered López Obrador to return the National Guard to civilian jurisdiction. Amid ongoing “gender-based violence, including femicides and disappearances,” Kloppe-Santamaría said, getting a female president at this moment feels “very paradoxical.”

Persons: Claudia Sheinbaum, “, Sheinbaum, –, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Xochitl Gálvez, Raquel Cunha, ” Stephanie Brewer, ”, López Obrador’s, Enrique Peña Nieto’s, Ulises Ruiz, Galvez, ” Gálvez, …, ” Brewer, Felipe Calderón, “ Militarization, López Obrador, Joaquin “ El Chapo ” Guzman, Armando Perez Luna, Ivan Macias Ivan Macias, Brewer, Falko Ernst, Gema, Santamaría Organizations: CNN, Mexico City, PAN, Reuters, Washington Office, Latin, Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics, –, coy, Mirador, AFP, Getty, National Guard, Defense, Defense . Police, National Action Party, REUTERS, Crisis, ” CNN, Defence, George Washington University ., Galvaz, Mexico City police Locations: Mexico, ”, Chiapas, Mexico’s, Guatemala, Morena, Mexico City, “ Mexico, Latin America, WOLA, Mirador San Miguel, Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco State, militarization, Maravatio, Michoacan, Mexican, femicides

☆ Opinion: Mexico is about to elect its first woman president. The US isn’t heading in that direction anytime soon
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Opinion Alice Driver | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

While he has stated support for Roe v Wade, in 2023, at a fundraiser Biden said, “I’m a practicing Catholic. Feminist activists demonstrate in favor of the decriminalization of abortion on International Safe Abortion Day, in Mexico City, September 2023. Silvana Flores/AFP/Getty ImagesFor decades, abortion was criminalized in Mexico, while in the US the constitutional right was established in the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, more than 20 US states ban or restrict abortion. I never imagined that.”In the US, I wonder if I will see a woman elected as president in my lifetime.

Persons: Alice Driver, ”, Mexico’s, Alice Driver Luis_Garvan, Claudia Sheinbaum, Xóchitl, “, Donald Trump, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Sheinbaum, Susan Segal, Trump, Stormy Daniels, Roe, Wade, Biden, “ I’m, I’m, Roe America, Silvana Flores, Verónica Cruz, ” Cruz Organizations: American Worker, Meatpacking Company, New Yorker, The New York, Oxford American, CNN, CNN —, Mexico City, Society, Americas, Roe, Getty, Mexico’s, America –, Trump, Biden, Young Texas Locations: Mexico, New, United States, New York, Roe, Mexico City, AFP, Arkansas, America, America – Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Mexican

☆ Mexico’s 2024 General Election: What to Know
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Emiliano Rodríguez Mega | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Why does this election matter? Mexico’s vote on June 2 will be a landmark election in several ways. It will be the country’s largest election in terms of voters and seats. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador cannot run again under the constitution, and he has strongly backed his protégée and fellow Morena party member, Claudia Sheinbaum, who pledges to continue the current leader’s agenda. Her primary opponent is Xóchitl Gálvez, a strong critic of the López Obrador administration who vows to return checks and balances to government.

Persons: Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Claudia Sheinbaum, Xóchitl Locations: Mexico

☆ Opinion | Will Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish Woman, Blaze a Trail or Follow One?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Ilan Stavans | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mexico’s presidential campaign is well underway and if the polls are to be believed, Claudia Sheinbaum, a physicist and candidate of the left-leaning ruling Morena party, could be the country’s next president. Ms. Sheinbaum, who is of Jewish descent, holds a staggering 30 percentage point lead over Xóchitl Gálvez, a tech entrepreneur of Indigenous descent. Ms. Sheinbaum, who lacks his charisma and political acumen, is seen as the continuator of his political project. If elected, Ms. Sheinbaum will be Mexico’s first Jewish president. As a Mexican of Jewish origin, I have seen with amazement and optimism how so many Mexicans, in a predominantly Catholic country, are backing someone of her gender and religious origin.

Persons: Claudia Sheinbaum, Ms, Sheinbaum, Xóchitl, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, AMLO Organizations: Mexico’s Locations: Morena

☆ Mexico’s Presidential Race Is Shaping Up to Be a Blowout
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Simon Romero | Emiliano Rodríguez Mega | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

With Mexico’s presidential election just three months away, one thing is clear: The candidate for the governing party appears to be running away with it. Claudia Sheinbaum, a physicist and protégée of the current president, holds a commanding lead of about 30 percentage points in the polls over the opposition’s Xóchitl Gálvez, a tech entrepreneur, as campaigning officially starts on Friday. Playing it safe at a time when the departing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, remains broadly popular, Ms. Sheinbaum has kept so closely to his policies and persona that she not only vows to adopt his priorities, she also sometimes imitates his slow-paced way of talking in appearances across the country. But while Ms. Sheinbaum’s exceptionally disciplined campaign has cemented her front-runner status, the candidate who could be Mexico’s first female president remains something of an enigma to many Mexicans.

Persons: Claudia Sheinbaum, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Sheinbaum

It may be just electioneering: López Obrador leaves office in September, and he really wants his party’s candidate, former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, to win the presidential elections. López Obrador has made other unfulfilled promises in the past, like pledging Mexico would have a health care system “better than in Denmark." But the cost of what López Obrador is proposing for pensions is striking. The other half of Mexicans, who work under the table in the ‘informal’ economy, have no pension program at all. It seems unlikely to be achieved, so why would López Obrador propose it?

Persons: —, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, López Obrador, Claudia Sheinbaum, “ It's, Morena, ”, Gabriela Siller, It's, he'll, “ López Obrador, Claudia, Sheinbaum, Viri Ríos Organizations: MEXICO CITY, Mexico City, Morena, Nuevo Leon, Banco Base, López Obrador doesn’t, National Guard Locations: MEXICO, Mexico, Denmark, Morena

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador immediately interpreted the reports as a U.S. attack on his government and his Morena party before Mexico’s June 2 presidential election. The stories described testimony by traffickers that they passed about $2 million to confidants of López Obrador in 2006, when he narrowly lost the race for president. Political Cartoons View All 253 Images“It is completely false, it's slander,” López Obrador said Wednesday at his daily media briefing. López Obrador is notoriously touchy about anything that tarnishes his own moral authority or reputation, upon which his entire party rests. Campaign operators linked to López Obrador have been caught on video several times receiving large sums of cash, but with no proof he knew about it.

Persons: —, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Salvador, López Obrador, ” López Obrador, “, ” “ It's, Mike Vigil, “ It's, ” Vigil, Cienfuegos, Vigil, Claudia Sheinbaum, López Obrador's, Mexico's, Beltran Leyva, didn't, Guadalupe Correa, Cabrera, ”, Correa, “ That's, Manuel López Obrador, Mexico’s Organizations: MEXICO CITY, ., Mexico’s, . Drug, Administration, López, ProPublica, Deutsche Welle, George Mason University, U.S, Republicans, Republican, DEA, Cienfuegos ’, United Locations: MEXICO, U.S, Mexico, Mexican, Salvador Cienfuegos, Cienfuegos, United States, López Obrador's Morena, ‘ Mexico, Los Angeles

☆ Rampant Extortion Reveals 'Corrosive' Hole in Mexico Security Strategy
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Jan. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +4 min

"Burgeoning extortion has not grabbed the headlines, but it's been the all-the-more corrosive fallout of a security strategy that never merited the label," said Falko Ernst, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group. Lopez Obrador denies his strategy has fed impunity, but said after the villagers' bloody takedown of extortionists in Texcapilla, some 75 miles (120 km) southwest of Mexico City, that Mexico must fight the problem. Security frequently tops polls of voters' chief concerns ahead of the June 2 presidential election to succeed Lopez Obrador, who under Mexican law cannot run again. Sheinbaum has defended the administration, while also pledging "zero impunity" and highlighting her own record on security in Mexico City, where murders fell far more sharply. A recent study by a Mexican Senate think tank said Mexico suffers some 13,000 acts of extortion daily.

Persons: Dave Graham MEXICO, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Lopez, it's, Falko Ernst, Lopez Obrador, abrazos, Lopez Obrador's, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, Sheinbaum, Ernst, Mexico's, extortioners, Carlos Heredia, Dave Graham, Lizbeth Diaz, Alistair Bell Organizations: Dave Graham MEXICO CITY, Crisis, Mexico City Mayor, Army Locations: Texcapilla, Mexico City, Mexico, Mexican

☆ Jane Goodall Says 2024 is the ‘Most Consequential Voting Year’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( David Gelles | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When I caught up with Jane Goodall in 2019, she was calling on consumers and businesses to make responsible choices and protect the natural world. And in a year when more than 40 countries — including the United States, India and South Africa — will be electing their leaders, Goodall is telling anyone who will listen that the health of Earth itself is on the ballot. “Half of the population of the planet is going to be voting,” she said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. “This year could be the most consequential voting year in terms of the fate of our planet.”As my colleague Manuela Andreoni wrote last week, the leaders elected this year will face consequential choices on energy policy, deforestation and emissions reductions. In the United States, Republicans are planning to undo environmental regulations if former president Donald J. Trump wins re-election.

Persons: Jane Goodall, Goodall, ”, Manuela Andreoni, Donald J, Claudia Sheinbaum Organizations: Economic, Trump Locations: United States, India, South Africa, Davos, Mexico, Mexico City

☆ AI defined 2023. Bullets and ballots will shape 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Simon Robinson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

In that spirit, I asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard – two of the most popular generative AI tools – to do the job for me. It missed the war between Hamas and Israel. In 2024, expect more progress and more news on regulators scrambling to keep up. Next year will also be defined by bullets and ballots. Like many newsrooms, Reuters is experimenting with how AI can help us package, produce and deliver our journalism.

Persons: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Bard –, ChatGPT, “, ”, Bard, –, Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, machismo, Claudia Sheinbaum, Vladimir Putin, Joseph Stalin’s, What’s, Taylor, Edward Tobin Organizations: United Nations, Gaza Health Ministry, Brussels –, Ukraine –, Washington, U.S, Mexico City, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, Ukrainian, Ukraine’s, Washington, Brussels, Moscow, Kyiv, Beijing, Taiwan, U.S, India, Mexico, United States

☆ Mexico's Samuel Garcia pulls out of 2024 presidential race
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Governor of Nuevo Leon state Samuel Garcia poses for a picture with students as he arrives at an event of school equipment delivery at the Prepa Tec high school, in Monterrey, Mexico April 25, 2023. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsMEXICO CITY, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Samuel Garcia, one of the two main opposition hopefuls competing in Mexico's 2024 presidential election, has withdrawn from the contest to return to his post as governor of the northern state of Nuevo Leon, his party said on Saturday. "I have decided to not participate in the electoral race for President of the Republic," the 35-year-old Garcia said in a statement from the Nuevo Leon government made public by his center-left Citizens' Movement (MC) party. Garcia then became embroiled in a dispute about who would replace him in Nuevo Leon, where his political opponents control the state legislature, which votes in the interim governor. Recent opinion polls have given Garcia around 10% support in the presidential race, putting him behind Xochitl Galvez, candidate of the main opposition alliance.

Persons: Samuel Garcia, Daniel Becerril, Garcia, Luis Enrique Orozco, Garcia's, Orozco, Xochitl Galvez, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, MORENA, Dante Delgado, Dave Graham, Adriana Barrera, Nick Zieminski Organizations: Tec, REUTERS, MEXICO CITY, Nuevo, ' Movement, Regeneration, Mexico City Mayor, Thomson Locations: Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico, MEXICO, Republic

☆ Mexican presidency race tightens slightly, Sheinbaum retains big lead -poll
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Former Mexico City Mayor and ruling National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) party, candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, gestures during her registration as oficial candidate for MORENA for the 2024 presidential election, in Mexico City, Mexico November 19, 2023. A prior survey by the firm published early last month had given former Mexico City Mayor Sheinbaum 55% support, and Galvez, a businesswoman-turned-politician, 20%. The latest Parametria poll gave a third contender, Samuel Garcia of the opposition center-left Citizens' Movement (MC), 10% backing. "That said, it's a big lead and we're looking at a scenario where she would have an absolute majority (in Congress)," Abundis told Reuters. Reporting by Dave Graham in Mexico City Editing by Matthew LewisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Claudia Sheinbaum, MORENA, Luis Cortes, Parametria, Xochitl Galvez, Galvez, Sheinbaum, Samuel Garcia, Francisco Abundis, it's, Abundis, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Lopez, Dave Graham, Matthew Lewis Organizations: Mexico City Mayor, Regeneration, REUTERS, MEXICO CITY, Mexico City Mayor Sheinbaum, ' Movement, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Mexico City, Mexico, MEXICO, Congress, North America, Asia

☆ Mexico Presidency Race Narrows Slightly, Sheinbaum Still Way Ahead -Poll
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Nov. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The race to become Mexico's next president has closed slightly, but former Mexico City mayor and ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum still has double the support of her main opposition rival, an opinion poll showed on Monday. Samuel Garcia, who is competing for the candidacy of another center-left party, Citizens Movement (MC), polled 8% support. A poll published in early October had given Sheinbaum 50% support versus 20% for Galvez, although that survey included a fourth, right-wing candidate who did not feature this time. "With the entry of Samuel Garcia as sole MC contender, the presidential ballot has been practically set in stone," Buendia & Marquez head Jorge Buendia wrote in El Universal. Separately, an analysis of several polls by research firm Consulta Mitofsky which stripped out undecided voters and those not backing any candidate showed Sheinbaum with 62.7% of effective support.

Persons: Mexico's, Claudia Sheinbaum, pollster Buendia, Marquez, Xochitl Galvez, Galvez, Samuel Garcia, Sheinbaum, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Buendia, Jorge Buendia, Garcia, Raul Cortes, Sarah Morland, Dave Graham, Andrea Ricci Organizations: MEXICO CITY, Mexico City, El Universal, Sheinbaum, Regeneration, Citizens Movement Locations: MEXICO, Mexico

☆ Mexico's Ebrard sticks with ruling party, avoids break with president
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Mexico's former Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, who was a runner-up to Claudia Sheinbaum in the ruling National Regeneration Movement's (MORENA) presidential primary, holds a press conference in Mexico City, Mexico, September 11, 2023. Afterwards, he had held out the possibility of seeking the presidency with the center-left opposition Citizens' Movement (MC) party. However, this weekend MC closed its register of contenders for its presidential candidacy without Ebrard. He was also a key interlocutor for Mexico's negotiations over trade and immigration with then-U.S. President Donald Trump, and the succeeding Biden administration. That has helped polarize public opinion, and Ebrard urged MORENA to broaden its base and cultivate middle class support.

Persons: Marcelo Ebrard, Claudia Sheinbaum, Raquel Cunha, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Ebrard, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, Lopez, Donald Trump, Biden, Lopez Obrador, MORENA, Dave Graham, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: REUTERS, MEXICO CITY, Regeneration, Mexico City Mayor, Citizens ' Movement, Thomson Locations: MORENA, Mexico City, Mexico, MEXICO, Asia

☆ Mexico's ruling party again picks woman to run for mayor of capital
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( David Alire Garcia | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Aspiring candidate for the position of mayor of Mexico City and Iztapalapa Mayor Clara Brugada, attends an event in the municipality of Iztapalapa, in Mexico City, Mexico September 5, 2023. REUTERS/Raquel Cunha Acquire Licensing RightsMEXICO CITY, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Mexico's ruling party on Saturday picked veteran politician Clara Brugada to be its candidate for Mexico City mayor, placing her in a strong position to win the election next June. "Today we came out strong and united to win the heart of our great capital." As runner-up for the capital, Brugada will run for the job to meet the quota, MORENA party leaders said. His then-environment chief Claudia Sheinbaum, who became mayor in 2018, won the party's presidential nomination in September for the 2024 election.

Persons: Clara Brugada, Raquel Cunha, Brugada, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's, Omar Garcia Harfuch, MORENA, Lopez Obrador, Claudia Sheinbaum, David Alire Garcia, Dave Graham, Diane Craft Organizations: Iztapalapa, REUTERS, MEXICO CITY, Saturday, Mexico City, Regeneration, Twitter, Thomson Locations: Mexico City, Iztapalapa, Mexico, MEXICO, Brugada

☆ Mexico's Ruling Party Again Picks Woman to Run for Mayor of Capital
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Nov. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

By David Alire GarciaMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's ruling party on Saturday picked veteran politician Clara Brugada to be its candidate for Mexico City mayor, placing her in a strong position to win the election next June. Brugada could become the second woman in a row to be elected as mayor of the Mexican capital if her campaign for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's leftist National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) is successful. "Today we came out strong and united to win the heart of our great capital." As runner-up for the capital, Brugada will run for the job to meet the quota, MORENA party leaders said. His then-environment chief Claudia Sheinbaum, who became mayor in 2018, won the party's presidential nomination in September for the 2024 election.

Persons: David Alire Garcia, Clara Brugada, Brugada, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's, Omar Garcia Harfuch, MORENA, Lopez Obrador, Claudia Sheinbaum, Dave Graham, Diane Craft Organizations: David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY, Saturday, Mexico City, Regeneration, Twitter Locations: Iztapalapa, Mexico, Brugada

☆ Mexico's Sheinbaum Holds 18 Point Lead in Presidency Race -Poll
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Former Mexico City Mayor and ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum holds an 18 percentage point lead over her nearest rival in the race to win Mexico's next presidential election on June 2, an opinion poll showed on Tuesday. Sheinbaum has the firm backing of popular President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who cannot seek reelection. A third presidential hopeful, Nuevo Leon state Governor Samuel Garcia of the center-left Citizens' Movement (MC) party, was polling 8 percent support. Respondents in the newspaper's poll suggested that those characteristics did not play in either candidate's favor. El Financiero said its poll had an overall margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.

Persons: Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's, El Financiero, Sheinbaum, Xochitl Galvez, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Galvez, Samuel Garcia, Lopez Obrador, Sheinbaum's, Dave Graham, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: MEXICO CITY, Mexico City Mayor, Regeneration, Nuevo, ' Movement Locations: MEXICO, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, Europe

☆ Mexico's Sheinbaum holds 18 point lead in presidency race -poll
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum gestures as she speaks on the day she is certified as presidential candidate for the ruling National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) party during a ceremony, in Mexico City, Mexico September 10, 2023. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsMEXICO CITY, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Former Mexico City Mayor and ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum holds an 18 percentage point lead over her nearest rival in the race to win Mexico's next presidential election on June 2, an opinion poll showed on Tuesday. Sheinbaum has the firm backing of popular President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who cannot seek reelection. A third presidential hopeful, Nuevo Leon state Governor Samuel Garcia of the center-left Citizens' Movement (MC) party, was polling 8 percent support. El Financiero said its poll had an overall margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.

Persons: Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, Henry Romero, Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's, El Financiero, Sheinbaum, Xochitl Galvez, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Galvez, Samuel Garcia, Lopez Obrador, Sheinbaum's, Dave Graham, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Mexico City Mayor, Regeneration, REUTERS, MEXICO CITY, Nuevo, ' Movement, Thomson Locations: Mexico City, Mexico, MEXICO, Nuevo Leon, Europe

☆ Mexico President's Former Finance Minister Backs Opposition Rival
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's former finance minister is backing the main opposition alliance in next year's presidential election, the opposition's candidate said on Tuesday. "Welcome to this team," Galvez wrote on X, sharing a picture of herself and Urzua, who was finance minister from 2018 to 2019 at the start of Lopez Obrador's presidency. A respected economist, Urzua from 2000 to 2003 was Lopez Obrador's top finance official when he was Mexico City mayor. However, he remains a popular president, and MORENA's candidate to succeed him, former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, has a commanding lead over Galvez in opinion polls. Galvez heads the main opposition alliance comprising three parties ranging from the center-right to the center-left.

Persons: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's, Xochitl Galvez, Carlos Urzua, Lopez, Galvez, Urzua, Lopez Obrador's, Lopez Obrador, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, Stefanie Eschenbacher, Dave Graham, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: MEXICO CITY, Regeneration, Lopez Obrador's, Mexico City, Mexico City Mayor, ' Movement Locations: MEXICO, Mexico

☆ In the country of ‘machismo,’ a woman will be the next president
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Rafael Romo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Sheinbaum, a 61-year-old former Mexico City mayor and longtime political ally of Lopez Obrador, hit all the right notes in thanking him. Lopez Obrador promises to ‘retire completely’Schettino believes the immensely popularly Lopez Obrador views Sheinbaum as his extension in power. In 2012, Lopez Obrador created Morena as a political party. “President López Obrador, a dinosaur who not only is a dinosaur, but also has the vocation of a tyrant. Earlier this year, Lopez Obrador denied he had any favorites among his party’s hopefuls or that he was pushing for one candidate or another behind the scenes.

Persons: Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Claudia Sheinbaum, Lopez Obrador, Morena, Sheinbaum, ”, –, Xochitl Gálvez, It’s, Lopez, Xochitl Galvez, wasn’t, Gálvez, López Obrador, Vicente Fox, Gálvez unapologetically, Macario, she’s, don’t, ” Schettino, “, let’s, it’s, ” Sheinbaum, ‘, Schettino, hew Organizations: CNN, Mexico City, Broad Front, PAN, PRI, PRD, Front, Mexican Congress, Social, Institutional Revolutionary Party, Party of Democratic Locations: Mexico City, Mexico, Monterrey, Mexican, Mexico’s

☆ Mexico's Sheinbaum handily leads 2024 presidential race, poll shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum gestures as she speaks on the day she is certified as presidential candidate for the ruling National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) party during a ceremony, in Mexico City, Mexico September 10, 2023. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsMEXICO CITY, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum, the presidential candidate for the country's ruling leftist party and a close ally of the current president, is now expected to easily win the 2024 election, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday. Sheinbaum, candidate for the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) founded by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, nabbed 50% of support in a four-way race of top contenders, according to a survey by polling firm Buendia & Marquez and newspaper El Universal. Sheinbaum, 61, was until recently mayor of Mexico City. Reporting by Kylie Madry; Editing by Aurroa EllisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, Henry Romero, Claudia Sheinbaum, Sheinbaum, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Marquez, Lopez, Xochitl Galvez, Mexico's, Samuel Garcia, Eduardo Verastegui, Kylie Madry, Aurroa Ellis Organizations: Mexico City Mayor, Regeneration, REUTERS, MEXICO CITY, National Regeneration, El Universal, Nuevo Leon, Thomson Locations: Mexico City, Mexico, MEXICO, MORENA

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