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2024-06-03 Caribbean-Latin America

Claudia Sheinbaum becomes Mexico's first woman president with landslide victory

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Claudia Sheinbaum has become Mexico's first female president

The 61-year-old is the former city of Mexico city, and is a scientist by training

She won up to 60% of votes, according to preliminary results

Posted by Skidmark 2024-06-03 06:17|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 Mexico elects Sheinbaum as first woman president

Posted by Skidmark 2024-06-03 07:28|| 2024-06-03 07:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Supposedly, a Santeria practitioner.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-06-03 07:53|| 2024-06-03 07:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Santeria is a Caribbean islands thing. If she is into cult action, it's probably Santa Muerte.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-03 08:15|| 2024-06-03 08:15|| Front Page Top

#4 From Skidmark’s BBC link:

Prior to running for president, Ms Sheinbaum was mayor of Mexico City, one of the most influential political positions in the country and one that is seen as paving the way for the presidency.
Ms Sheinbaum, whose Jewish maternal grandparents immigrated to Mexico from Bulgaria fleeing the Nazis, had an illustrious career as a scientist before delving into politics. Her paternal grandparents hailed from Lithuania.
Both of her parents were scientists and Ms Sheinbaum studied physics before going on to receive a doctorate in energy engineering.
She spent years at a renowned research lab in California studying Mexican energy consumption patterns and became an expert on climate change.
That experience and her student activism eventually earned her the position of secretary of the environment for Mexico City at the time when Andrés Manuel López Obrador was mayor of the capital.
In 2018 she became the first female mayor of Mexico City, a post she held until 2023, when she stepped down to run for president.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-06-03 08:41|| 2024-06-03 08:41|| Front Page Top

#5 ...and became an expert on climate change.

I'm 59 years of age. The study of 'climate science' has been around for about that same period of time. Even last week yet another negative impact on local climates by 'clean energy' has been identified, but the same 'climate experts' will insist despite such evidence that they can still 'save the planet' or some such codswallop.

Prediction - this broad's going to be an unmitigated disaster.

Posted by Raj 2024-06-03 10:41|| 2024-06-03 10:41|| Front Page Top

#6 But maybe...maybe, she's not mobbed up.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-06-03 10:48|| 2024-06-03 10:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Globalist flunky who is capable of playing ball with the cartels. Everybody wins.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-06-03 15:20|| 2024-06-03 15:20|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ Bingo! And she'll fix Mejico's water problems too. Can't remember if they're getting too much or not enough of it.

Posted by jpal 2024-06-03 16:29|| 2024-06-03 16:29|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ Varies...weekly

Posted by Frank G 2024-06-03 19:00|| 2024-06-03 19:00|| Front Page Top

#10 It is a constant that you shouldn't drink it.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-03 19:02|| 2024-06-03 19:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Interestingly Sheinbaum's success will in large part depend on Mexico's success in increasing oil production.

Back in 2000-2010 Mexico was producing about 3M b/day but this had fallen to below 2M by 2020 and hasn't risen since. If Mexico would de nationalize Pen Mex they would probably get back to 3M b/day in 5 years or so but doing this isn't likely given the politics. The best that Mexico could realistically do is grant more leases to private companies (they started doing this a few years ago).

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-06-03 19:33|| 2024-06-03 19:33|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ De-nationalize PEMEX = breaking too many ~~delicious~~ rice bowls. Bureaucrat parasites align with Cartels

Posted by Frank G 2024-06-03 19:40|| 2024-06-03 19:40|| Front Page Top

#13 you shouldn't drink it

Churn much time there you learn to brush your teeth with Corona. Refrigerated, not from a ice bucket.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-06-03 22:58|| 2024-06-03 22:58|| Front Page Top

#14 Not just in Mexico, Skidmark. Even in five-star hotels in the Third World, avoiding tap water is wise. Mr. Wife told of sticking to bottled — but only if he broke the seal himself — or something with alcohol. When he got amoebic dysentery in Bombay, he assumed he’d caught it from breathing the dust in the air — he’d only just got off the airplane, and hadn’t yet had anything to eat or drink.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-06-03 23:09|| 2024-06-03 23:09|| Front Page Top

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