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☆ What these homebuyers and owners told us an interest rate cut means to them
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Last month, the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point and signaled that more cuts are coming. He hopes interest rate cuts will increase his buying power. Mortgage rates have steadily fallen in anticipation of further interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. Mortgage rates have steadily fallen in anticipation of further interest rate cuts from the Fed, with the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate dropping to 6.12% in the week ended October 3, according to Freddie Mac. “Even a decent interest rate today far exceeds what we’ve been planning and budgeting on since we bought this home,” said Tony, who said his interest rate was 3.75%.

Persons: Robert Galvez, ”, Galvez, “, ” Galvez, Kamala Harris ’, homebuyers, Brandon Bell, Tony, Freddie Mac, it’s, Safiya Reid, Nico Williams, Reid, Nico Williams “ I’m, ” Reid, she’s Organizations: CNN, Federal Reserve, National Association of Realtors, Federal Housing Administration, NACA Locations: New Hampshire, Atlanta, Okinawa, Japan

☆ 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

☆ 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

CNN —Mexico seems set to elect its first female president in next year’s election after the country’s leading parties both unveiled women candidates. Sheinbaum is a former mayor of Mexico City who has long been considered a favorite to get the nomination. Born in Mexico City in 1962, Sheinbaum has a degree in physics and a PhD in energy engineering. Senator Xóchitl Gálvez, opposition candidate for Mexico's 2024 presidential election, speaks at the Angel of Independence monument, in Mexico City, on Sunday. From 2015 to 2018, she served as the mayor of the Miguel Hidalgo borough in Mexico City.

Persons: Morena, Claudia Sheinbaum, Xóchitl Gálvez, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Sheinbaum, Obrador, Gálvez, Marco Ugarte, López Obrador, …, ” Gálvez, Miguel Organizations: CNN, Sunday, Mexico City, Frente Amplio, Institutional Revolutionary Party, Twitter, PRI, National Action Party, PAN, Democratic Revolution Party, Español, Senate, Federal Locations: Mexico, Mexico City, Frente Amplio Por Mexico, Morena, Miguel Hidalgo

☆ There's a big disparity in the number of Latino doctors and surgeons. Advocates are working to change that.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-30 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Edwin-Head-Shot-Copy.Jpg | Edwin Flores | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

"For the last 40 years, the number of Latino physicians has not changed. Meanwhile, almost 1 in 5 Americans, 62.6 million, are Latino, according to the latest 2020 census numbers, a 23% increase from 2010. "There was urgency to increase the number of Latino physicians in the United States before Covid. “I was the only Mexican in my medical school class out of 104 students. We’re going to keep working towards this until there is complete awareness from every institution [and] medical school.

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