A violent, polarized Mexico goes to the polls to choose between 2 women presidential candidates
Associated PressMEXICO CITY — 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. Soledad Echagoyen, a Mexico City doctor who supports President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party, says she can no longer talk about politics with her colleagues. She faces former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, who is running for López Obrador’s Morena party. Supporters of the presidential candidate Xóchitl Galvez hold crosses that read in Spanish “Get out Morena, Morena treason,” referring to the ruling party, during Galvez’s campaign rally in Los Reyes la Paz, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Supporters of ruling party presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum wait for the start of Sheinbaum’s closing campaign rally at the Zocalo in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 29, 2024, on the last day of campaigning ahead of the June 2 general election.