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Mexico: Former presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez will challenge electoral process

Gálvez filed a formal challenge on Thursday before Mexico's National Electoral Institute (INE)

Latin Times · Jun 14, 2024

Mexico: why Sheinbaum’s historic election may not translate to gender equality

Claudia Sheinbaum has made history. On June 2, she became the first woman to be elected as president of Mexico. Nearly 36 million Mexicans cast their votes for Sheinbaum, more than double the number received by her closest rival and fellow woman candidate, Xóchitl Gálvez.

The Conversation · Jun 12, 2024

Mexico elects first female president − but will that improve the lot of country’s women?

Mexico will have its first woman president following a landmark vote on June 2, 2024.

The Conversation · Jun 3, 2024

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Who is Claudia Sheinbaum? Mexico elects its first female president

The 61-year-old beat Xóchitl Gálvez by almost 30 per cent

Evening Standard · Jun 3, 2024

Mexico elects its first female president. How the country got here before the U.S.

Mexico's election results are a strong argument that waiting for progress to just happen doesn't work.

Fortune · Jun 3, 2024

Mexico has elected its first female president. Claudia Sheinbaum inherits a country ravaged by violence – and searching for hope

On October 17, 1953, constitutional reform granted women the right to vote in Mexico, and two years later, women cast ballots for the first time in a federal election.

The Conversation · Jun 3, 2024

Climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum to become Mexico's first woman president

The former head of Mexico City's government beat opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez.

Axios · Jun 3, 2024

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High school football scores: Week 3

All the Chicago-area scores from the third week of the 2026 football season.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 3, 2024

Mexican Presidential Candidates Encourage Voter Turnout On Election Day

Mexican presidential candidates Sheinbaum and Gálvez share their perspectives on election day, reflecting diverse political ideologies in the Mexican polit...

Mexico votes in election certain to bring country’s first female president

Claudia Sheinbaum is the presidential front-runner, with 20,000 other posts up for grabs in the country’s biggest election ever

The Guardian - US · Jun 2, 2024

Mexico's Presidential Election: Populist Policies Vs. Anti-Cartel Stance

Mexico's presidential election presents a critical choice between continuity and change, with two female candidates offering distinct visions for the count...

Misinformation And Misogyny Cloud Mexican Presidential Election

Explore the impact of misinformation and violence on Mexico's historic election with the first female president.

In Mexico’s Historic Vote, Politics Are Little Changed

A Puente poll represents a rare survey of the Mexican public by U.S. media.

Texas Observer · May 31, 2024

Mexico’s voters set to make history by electing the country’s first woman president

Tens of millions of Mexicans will go to the polls on June 2 to vote in the country’s largest election in history. The election will allow voters to decide more than 20,700 positions at the local and national levels.

The Conversation · May 31, 2024

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Latin Times · May 31, 2024

Mexico Presidential Elections: How The 3 Candidates Plan To Combat Organized Crime

Based on manifestos, public statements, and appearances in the last of three presidential debates held on May 19, here is how the candidates have vowed to deal with organized criminal gangs in the country who still have a lot of power over territories and communities.

France 24 · May 30, 2024

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

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…

The Independent UK · May 29, 2024

Mexico's next president is likely a woman. But in some Indigenous villages, men have all the power

Seventy years ago, Mexican women won the right to vote, and today the country’s on the verge of electing its first woman president

France 24 · May 28, 2024

Mexican elections: Dodging bullets on the campaign trail

Mexico heads to the polls on June 2 and it’s almost certain that the country's new head of state will be a woman. The two favourites are Claudia Sheinbaum, who has been mentored by outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador; and Xochitl Galvez, who is backed by three opposition parties.…

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The Independent UK · May 27, 2024

A woman could be Mexico’s next leader. Millions of others continue in shadows as domestic workers.

Some 2.5 million Mexicans — mostly women — are domestic workers, a profession that has come to encapsulate gender and class divisions long permeating Mexico

The Independent UK · May 27, 2024

A woman could be Mexico's next leader. Millions of others continue in shadows as domestic workers

Some 2.5 million Mexicans — mostly women — are domestic workers, a profession that has come to encapsulate gender and class divisions long permeating Mexico

France 24 · May 24, 2024

Señora Presidenta: Mexico set to vote in first woman president

On June 2, millions of Mexicans are set to make history by voting in their first-ever female president with the two leading candidates both being women; Dr Claudia Sheinbaum from the leftist Morena party, and her right-wing rival, Xóchitl Gálvez. Annette Young heads to Mexico to ask what does this…

The Independent UK · May 24, 2024

Mexico's poorest receiving less government funds under president who brought poor to the fore

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador swept into office nearly six years ago with a simple motto laying out his administration’s priorities: “For the good of all, first the poor.”

The Independent UK · May 23, 2024

Strong winds topple stage at a campaign rally in northern Mexico, killing at least 9 people

At least nine people are dead and 63 more injured after the collapse of a stage during a campaign rally in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon

Latin Times · May 20, 2024

Mexican presidential candidates trade accusations of cartel ties as elections near

Claudia Sherinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez engaged in their last debate before the June 2 elections

The Texas Tribune · May 13, 2024

Mexican citizens in Texas prepare to vote in landmark presidential election

People living in Texas who have registered to vote in the Mexican elections could elect the country’s first female president next month.

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