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

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[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago

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

[-] vaguevoid@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 5 months ago

to liberals populism = government i don’t like

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 26 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 48 points 5 months ago

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

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

not true, in north america she's actually the 5th elected female president, and 8th elected female leader overall! (maybe many USians don't know but North America includes everything above South America, including Central America and the Caribbean)

NA countries that have elected a female president (excluding countries where the presidency is only a figurehead role):

  • Costa Rica

  • Haiti

  • Honduras (incumbent)

  • Nicaragua

  • Panama

NA countries that have elected a female PM (excluding countries where the prime ministry is only a figurehead role):

  • Barbados (incumbent)

  • Dominica

  • Jamaica

unelected leaders:

  • Canada (interim PM)

  • Haiti (interim president, tried to coup the government)

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

First elected president in nafta states jeb (i was going by concacaf zones 🥺)

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 5 months ago

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

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

Not a president, but Canada had a female PM for like 4 months in 1993.

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

not elected jeb (or was she?)

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 5 months ago

How did AMLO lose? I thought he was popular.

[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 5 months ago

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

[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[-] CommieBeetle@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Liberals are already seething. Guessd in Mexico we are not "civilized" enough for a female president.

[-] ProbablyKaffe@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 5 months ago

this is similarly the current SK government's stance on getting called out for their sexism: "we can't be sexist, look at Afghanistan, that's sexism"

[-] cubaenjoyer@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 5 months ago

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@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 5 months ago

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

[-] jack@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago

There are very understandable reasons based in Mexican history for strict term limits.

[-] cubaenjoyer@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 5 months ago

6 years term though. And it is very ingrained thing on mexican political life after Porfirio Diaz ruled for almost 30 years and 6 terms in the beginning of the century

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

She is the continuation (at least seems so) of AMLO.

[-] big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 5 months ago

yeah, latin compradors are screeching about "muh venezuela" "muh dictatorship" or saying "she's jewish and she's bad" by the same people that probably are supporting the zionists

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