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Two women vie for Mexico's presidency amid polarization, spiralling violence

Supporters of presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum attend her closing campaign rally at the Zocalo in Mexico City on May 29, 2024. © Matias Delacroix, AP

Mexico goes into Sunday’s election deeply divided: friends and relatives no longer talk politics for fear of worsening unbridgeable divides, while drug cartels have split the country into a patchwork quilt of warring fiefdoms. The atmosphere is literally heating up, amid a wave of unusual heat, drought, pollution and political violence.

It's unclear whether Mexico's next president will be able to rein in the underlying violence and polarization.

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