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MEXICO ELECTS CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM AS ITS FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT IN LANDSLIDE VICTORY

Claudia Sheinbaum has won a landslide victory to become Mexico’s first female president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose popularity among the poor helped drive her triumph. Sheinbaum, a leftwing climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won the presidency with between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, according…

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MEXICO HOLDS HISTORIC ELECTION IN RACE LARGELY OVERSHADOWED BY VIOLENCE

Voters in Mexico are participating in the country’s largest election ever — casting votes Sunday to fill more than 20,000 local, state and federal positions and almost certainly elect their first female president. But rampant violence has marred the road toward one of the most consequential elections in Mexico’s history. Criminal groups have taken over large parts of Mexico…

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