News about Claudia Sheinbaum

The United States of America and its southern neighbor, Mexico, could each have a woman president - their first - within the next few months. Yet even if Kamala Harris does make it to the White House, she can expect few sisterly favours from Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum. Elected on a radical Left platform in June, the 62-year-old has already irritated Washington with provocative stances on everything from geopolitics to gun control. Bolstered by a landslide victory and an economy attracting billions in foreign investment, Sheinbaum will be difficult to ignore, let alone silence, when she formally takes office on October 1.Already concerned by the spy base China appears to be building in Cuba, America is now asking this: could Mexico become a giant Cuba - a listening post for hostile powers right on its southern doorstep? That's exactly what some in Washington believe.

Elections in three of the world's largest emerging markets have each, in their own way, produced unexpected results. They have shown democracy to be alive and well on three continents. They also offer the prospect of revived investment opportunities in a world torn apart by conflict, geopolitics, fragmented trade and diminishing buying opportunities. India has long offered the most intriguing possibilities. China's fall from grace in Western chanceries has revived interest in South Asia. A UK frustration has been failure to secure a British-India free trade deal.

Mexico's newly elected and first female president Claudia Sheinbaum faced a market meltdown hours after being elected as stocks and the value of the peso dropped. Stocks fell nearly 6 percent and the peso lost as much as 4 percent in the hours after Sheinbaum won a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election. The scale of the gains for the Morena party and its allies took markets by surprise, with some fearing the results would pave the way for the ruling coalition to pass constitutional reforms without opposition support. 

President Biden is expected to sign new executive order on asylum Tuesday, as he faces ongoing political pressure to gain control of the border. He saluted Sheinbaum on her historic win. He is set to sign a new executive order Tuesday that will ban migrants who cross the border illegally from requesting asylum, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Mexico's new president Claudia Sheinbaum has said she thinks her relationship 'will be good' with whoever wins the 2024 US election, whether its Donald Trump or Joe Biden.

Mexico's new president Claudia Sheinbaum has said she thinks her relationship 'will be good' with whoever wins the 2024 US election, whether its Donald Trump or Joe Biden. The first female president of Mexico struck a conciliatory tone on Trump, even though he has said immigrants are 'poisoning the blood of our country.'

Claudia Sheinbaum was elected Mexico's first woman president by a landslide Sunday, making history in a country plagued by rampant criminal and gender-based violence.

Claudia Sheinbaum has made history by being elected as the first woman President of Mexico , following a historic landslide win on Sunday. MailOnline delves into everything you need to know about the 61-year-old former Mexico City mayor, lifelong leftist and award-winning scientist.

Claudia Sheinbaum was elected Mexico's first woman president by a landslide Sunday, making history in a country plagued by rampant criminal and gender-based violence. Crowds of flag-waving supporters sang and danced to mariachi music in Mexico City's main square celebrating the ruling party candidate's victory. 'I want to thank millions of Mexican women and men who decided to vote for us on this historic day,' Sheinbaum said in a victory speech to the cheering crowd.

Pollster Parametria forecast Sheinbaum winning a landslide 56 percent of the vote, according to their exit polls, with opposition candidate Xochitl Galvez at 30 percent. Four other exit polls also said Sheinbaum was set to win. Provisional results will trickle in over coming hours. Galvez has not conceded and told her supporters to be patient for the official results. A victory for Sheinbaum would represent a major step for Mexico, a country known for its macho culture.

About 100 million Mexican are registered to vote in the in an election that will likely give the country its first woman president and will replace President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Frontrunner and Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum is running with the Morena party while Xóchitl Gálvez, the opposition presidential candidate is running with a coalition of major opposition parties. Polls open at 8am and close at 6pm for most of the country today

On Wednesday, Mexico's Supreme Court struck down a federal ban on abortion, meaning that the procedure will no longer be punished because it is unconstitutional and infringes on women's fundamental rights. The federal public health service and all federal health organizations are legally bound to provide abortion assistance to anyone who requests it under unanimous decision made by 11 judges. The decision was one that the Information Group for Chosen Reproduction, or GIRE, as it is known by its Spanish initials, and other human rights organisations had been supporting.

According to a security analyst, five young Mexican men who were thought to have been kidnapped and killed by the cartel in Jalisco were likely lured to their deaths by the prospect of serving as a security guard. According to El Universal, David Saucedo Torres, a security analyst, said that the CNJG has developed a network of call centers. 'A number of training and recruitment centers have sprouted in the last two years or so in several regions surrounding Lagos de Moreno,' he said. They have made Lagos de Moreno a vital operation site, particularly for recruiting and training batsmen.' The five young people who were kidnapped appear to have been taken in some sort of education by Jalisco Cartel, which conducts assessments for the new recruits, obstructing them from doing assassinations.'

The mayor of Mexico City has accused the attorney general of Morelos of colluding with a murder perpetrator to cover up the murder of a woman who was injured on a road last week. Rautel Aguillo turned himself in to authorities in Nuevo León, the northeastern Mexican state. Two bicyclists in Ariadna Lopez, a mother of a five-year-old boy whose lifeless body was discovered in Tepoztlán, 57 miles south of Mexico City, are being charged with the businessman.

According to a recent Mexican government survey, an increasing number of Americans are crossing the southern border to live in Mexico. According to the study, over 8,000 American citizens were granted provisional resident visas to live in Mexico during the first nine months of 2022, an 85% increase over the same period in 2019. Through the first three quarters of the year, nearly 5,500 Americans were granted permanent residence status.

During Mexico City's second earthquake this week, the quake struck early this morning, killing a woman who collapsed and struck her head as people fled their homes. The woman staggered on the stairs of her house in the Doctores neighborhood as earthquake sirens rang out and buildings began to shake, according to the Mexico City Government. After the earthquake, a man in the south of the capital had also suffered a deadly heart attack. The quake struck at a depth of 20.7 kilometers (12.9 miles) on Monday, which was both smaller and deeper than the previous one. Around 1.16 a.m. local time (6.16 GMT) today's earthquake struck Michoacan, not far from Monday's epicenter. There were no immediate reports of serious injury in Michoacan or the immediate regions, according to officials. Residents wait outside their homes after the earthquake this morning, along with an evacuated woman and a map showing the quake.

On Monday, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake shook Mexico's central Pacific coast, sparking an earthquake warning in the capital. According to USGS, the quake struck 29 miles south-southeast of La Placita de Morelos, Mexico's state of Michoacan, and was at a depth of 6.2 miles. According to the United States Geological Survey, there were no immediate reports of damage from the earthquake that struck at 1.05 p.m. local time. This comes exactly five years to the day after a tremor killed 370 people in the same area.