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☆ 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 ( 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 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 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'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 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

☆ 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

☆ 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 leads 2024 presidential race -poll
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 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 RightsSept 14 (Reuters) - The presidential candidate of Mexico's leftist ruling party, Claudia Sheinbaum, a close ally of the current president, is favorite to win the 2024 election, a new opinion poll showed. Those polled were asked to choose between Sheinbaum, Galvez, and former foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard, Sheinbaum's main rival for MORENA presidential nomination. The poll showed Ebrard winning 15% support as MC candidate against Sheinbaum and Galvez. In a head-to-head contest between the two female front-runners, Sheinbaum got 55% support and Galvez 34%.

Persons: Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, Henry Romero, Claudia Sheinbaum, Xochitl Galvez, Galvez, Marcelo Ebrard, Ebrard, Sheinbaum, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Raul Cortes, Natalia Siniawski, Stefanie Eschenbacher, Alistair Bell Organizations: Mexico City Mayor, Regeneration, REUTERS, National Regeneration, Spanish, El Pais, MORENA, Movement, Sheinbaum, Thomson Locations: Mexico City, Mexico, Sheinbaum, MORENA, Galvez

REUTERS/Raquel Cunha Acquire Licensing RightsMEXICO CITY, Sept 11 (Reuters) - The Mexican government's plan to run up the biggest budget deficit in decades during the 2024 general election year could put pressure on public finances and eventually threaten its credit rating, analysts said on Monday. Lopez Obrador last week backed former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum as his party's candidate to succeed him. Historic data show the projected budget deficit for 2024 will be the highest since 1988 as a proportion of GDP. The government's higher spending plans should bolster Latin America's second-biggest economy, which has outpaced forecasts this year, brightening the outlook for 2024. He also noted that since Mexico's current account deficit is currently considerably lower than foreign direct investment, there was a pool of untapped demand in the economy that the government could temporarily offset via higher spending.

Persons: Mexico's Finance Ministry Rogelio Ramirez de la O, Marcela Guerra, Raquel Cunha, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Lopez, Patricia Terrazas, Lopez Obrador, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, Gabriela Siller, Alberto Ramos, Goldman Sachs, Ramos, Raul Feliz, Feliz, Dave Graham, Diego Ore, Noe Torres, Jamie Freed Organizations: Mexico's Finance Ministry, Mexican, REUTERS, Lopez Obrador's, Action Party, PAN, Mexico City Mayor, Banco Base, Bank of, Thomson Locations: Mexico City, Mexico, MEXICO, Bank of Mexico

☆ Mexico's Election Year Deficit Plan Fuels Fear Over Finances
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Sept. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

By Dave Graham and Diego OréMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican government's plan to run up the biggest budget deficit in decades during the 2024 general election year could put pressure on public finances and eventually threaten its credit rating, analysts said on Monday. Lopez Obrador last week backed former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum as his party's candidate to succeed him. Historic data show the projected budget deficit for 2024 will be the highest since 1988 as a proportion of GDP. The government's higher spending plans should bolster Latin America's second-biggest economy, which has outpaced forecasts this year, brightening the outlook for 2024. He also noted that since Mexico's current account deficit is currently considerably lower than foreign direct investment, there was a pool of untapped demand in the economy that the government could temporarily offset via higher spending.

Persons: Dave Graham, Diego, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Lopez, Patricia Terrazas, Lopez Obrador, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, Gabriela Siller, Alberto Ramos, Goldman Sachs, Ramos, Raul Feliz, Feliz, Diego Ore, Noe Torres, Jamie Freed Organizations: MEXICO CITY, Lopez Obrador's, Action Party, PAN, Mexico City Mayor, Banco Base, Bank of Locations: MEXICO, Mexico, Bank of Mexico, Mexico City

☆ In 'macho' Mexico, stage set for first female president
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Dave Graham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

[1/2] Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum reacts after she was nominated as a presidential candidate, in Mexico City, Mexico September 6, 2023. "It's extraordinary in a patriarchal country," said Josefina Vazquez Mota, who made history in 2012 as the first female presidential candidate for one of Mexico's main parties. "Just imagine having a female president in a country as macho as Mexico!" Mexican women did not win full voting rights until 1953, 33 years after the neighboring United States. Today, Vazquez Mota said, her PAN ally Galvez no longer had to respond to whether Mexico was ready for a female president.

Persons: Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, Henry Romero, Claudia Sheinbaum, Xochitl Galvez, Galvez, Josefina Vazquez Mota, Vazquez Mota, Maria del Carmen Garcia, Mexico City Mayor Sheinbaum, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Marcelo Ebrard, Angelica Rodriguez, femicides, Guadalupe, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Lorenzo Meyer, anticlerical, Gabriela Cuevas, Dave Graham, Stefanie Eschenbacher, Alberto Fajardo, Stephen Eisenhammer, Claudia Parsons Organizations: Mexico City Mayor, REUTERS, Action Party, PAN, Mexican, Court, men's, Roman, Virgin, Church, Colegio de Mexico, Reuters Graphics, Inter, Parliamentary Union, Federal, Vamos, OECD, Mexican Institute for Competitiveness, Thomson Locations: Mexico City, Mexico, MEXICO, America, Brazil, Honduras, Peru, United States, Canada, Yucatan, Reuters Graphics Mexico, Britain, Mexican, U.S, Turkey, Argentina

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