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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Daniel Rook

Mexico's President-elect Sheinbaum: A 'Tough Opponent' For US?

Claudia Sheinbaum, a left-wing former mayor of Mexico City, won a resounding victory to become Mexico's first woman president (Credit: AFP)

A landslide election win will embolden Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's first woman president, to defend her country's interests in sometimes-tense relations with the United States dominated by trade, migration and drugs, experts say.

While the president-elect is expected to be more diplomatic in public than her sharp-tongued predecessor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known by his initials AMLO, in private it could be a different story.

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