The country’s first female president faces a raft of challenges, from crime to a fractured polity. Mexico has elected Claudia Sheinbaum, a former mayor of the capital, as the country’s first female president after a heated election on Sunday, with the nation’s top election authority projecting a comfortable win for the 61-year-old physicist-turned-politician. Sheinbaum, a protege of Mexico’s outgoing President …
Mexico's new election reform is a blow to its young democracy EYDER PERALTA, HOST: Mexico is at a crossroads. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says the law reins in a bloated and corrupt government agency, but critics say it is a stunning blow to Mexico's young democracy. He's the former president of Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute, the organization that, among …
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s coalition is set to fall short of the two-thirds majority necessary for big reforms. Mexicans have voted to curb President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s power in elections initial forecast of results showed, delivering his Morena party and allies a reduced majority that will make it more difficult to push through substantial reforms. As well as …
