Sheinbaum is 1st Female Mexican President in 200 Years: AMLO ( www.telesurenglish.net )

During Monday's morning press conference, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) highlighted the importance of the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the first female president of Mexico.

"Yesterday I already congratulated her. I am very happy because you can imagine what it means to hand over the presidency to a woman after 200 years of republican life in which only men governed Mexico since 1824," he said.

plinky ,
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The first female president in north america jeb write better headlines smh

rainpizza OP ,
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You are right! Thanks for the feedback, comrade!!

ksynwa Mod ,
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How did AMLO lose? I thought he was popular.

cubaenjoyer ,

Mexico doesn't have second term for presidency (They started their Revolution in 1910 because of that issue). She is from his party, I think

ksynwa Mod ,
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Only one term per president? That seems a bit extreme.

cfgaussian ,

He didn't lose, he just cannot serve another term. She belongs to his party and he effectively campaigned for her. His popularity greatly helped boost her in the election. As a result of this election AMLO's party now has such a historic majority in government that the liberal media is fearmongering about how this may even give them a mandate to change the constitution.

ksynwa Mod ,
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Thanks. It would be dope if they get a clear majority and use it to change the constitution.

cfgaussian ,

The liberal media have already been portraying AMLO as a dictator for his "populist" policies, if his party tried to change the constitution to make it more leftist all the liberals would go crying to the US for intervention and regime change.

cfgaussian ,

The reactions from the Western media so far are split between hoping she will be less "populist" and more "pragmatic" (by which they mean more of a malleable technocrat who will bend to the bourgeoisie and to US diktat) than AMLO on the one hand, and trying to smear her by association with him on the other, whom they despise and call all sorts of names and try to portray as anti-democratic and pro-crime compared to previous right wing governments. As usual they try to pin all sorts of economic woes on the left. And of course they are already demonizing her for her party associating with other left wing governments like Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

And not one of the mainstream media articles about her i've read so far has mentioned that she is extremely pro-Palestinian.

FuckyWucky ,
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yea its interesting that western media lumps in AMLO & Modi, Erdogan, Orban into one 'populist' blob.

vaguevoid ,
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to liberals populism = government i don’t like

SexUnderSocialism ,
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The Western media is so fucking despicable and predictable as always. It really is the most effective propaganda apparatus on this planet, and nothing even comes close.

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