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Claudia Sheinbaum is likely to be Mexico's next president. Who is she? (WaPo)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/27/claudia-sheinbaum/Claudia Sheinbaum is likely to be Mexico’s next president. Who is she?
During the campaign, Claudia Sheinbaum has tethered herself to the policies of her popular mentor, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. How would her presidency differ from his?
By Mary Beth Sheridan and Lorena Ríos
May 27, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
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Sheinbaum, 61, is poised to make history as Mexico’s first female president and first Jewish head of state. Polls a week before Mexico’s election show her enjoying a wide lead over the next candidate, the conservative entrepreneur Xóchitl Gálvez. She has an impressive résumé, with a PhD in environmental engineering and a term as Mexico City mayor.
Still, after nearly a quarter-century in the public eye, she remains an enigma, known mainly as the low-key protégé of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the charismatic leader known as AMLO.
The question is whether a President Sheinbaum could step out of his shadow and govern a violence-racked country whose political institutions are in flux.
The Morena party, founded by AMLO in 2014, has become the 800-pound gorilla of Mexican politics, controlling Congress and 23 of 32 governorships. While Sheinbaum is the presidential candidate, the party faithful maintain an intense loyalty to AMLO of the sort that Donald Trump’s base has for him.
[...]
During the campaign, Claudia Sheinbaum has tethered herself to the policies of her popular mentor, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. How would her presidency differ from his?
By Mary Beth Sheridan and Lorena Ríos
May 27, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
[...]
Sheinbaum, 61, is poised to make history as Mexico’s first female president and first Jewish head of state. Polls a week before Mexico’s election show her enjoying a wide lead over the next candidate, the conservative entrepreneur Xóchitl Gálvez. She has an impressive résumé, with a PhD in environmental engineering and a term as Mexico City mayor.
Still, after nearly a quarter-century in the public eye, she remains an enigma, known mainly as the low-key protégé of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the charismatic leader known as AMLO.
The question is whether a President Sheinbaum could step out of his shadow and govern a violence-racked country whose political institutions are in flux.
The Morena party, founded by AMLO in 2014, has become the 800-pound gorilla of Mexican politics, controlling Congress and 23 of 32 governorships. While Sheinbaum is the presidential candidate, the party faithful maintain an intense loyalty to AMLO of the sort that Donald Trump’s base has for him.
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