Posted on 05/27/2024 5:10:11 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Sheinbaum, 61, is poised to make history as Mexico’s first female president and first Jewish head of state. Polls a week before Mexico’s election show her enjoying a wide lead over the next candidate, the conservative entrepreneur Xóchitl Gálvez.
Still, after nearly a quarter-century in the public eye, she remains an enigma, known mainly as the low-key protégé of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the charismatic leader known as AMLO.
AMLO doesn’t speak English and dislikes traveling abroad. Sheinbaum did postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley; her sister and daughter live in the United States.
The president, raised in Mexico’s poorer south, has the kind of folksy, small-town charm that catapulted Bill Clinton to the presidency. Sheinbaum grew up among the intellectual elite in the capital, enjoying daily ballet lessons and private tutoring in French.
What unites the two is a passion for political activism.
Sheinbaum’s parents were committed leftists, with a copy of Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital” hidden in the closet. Her mother, a biology professor, lost her job for participating in the 1968 student-led demonstrations against the one-party system that ruled Mexico for decades.
She’s not religious; she rarely discusses her Jewish heritage. (Her grandparents migrated from Lithuania and Bulgaria to escape discrimination and Nazi persecution.)
In many ways, Sheinbaum’s mayoralty was an exercise in pragmatism. To battle crime, she brought in Omar García Harfuch, a former head of Mexico’s equivalent of the FBI, who had worked closely with U.S. law enforcement. He was the scion of a police family despised by many on the left; his grandfather was defense secretary in 1968 when security forces massacred hundreds of pro-democracy protesters, many of them students, in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco plaza.
Sheinbaum claims that homicides dropped by half on her watch. Analysts have questioned her figures...
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Good. Trump can steamroll her when he gets back in.
A hard lefty? I don’t think she will have any interest in stopping the border crashers.
This chick may be an idealogue. I may be wrong but probably not.
Indeed. He treated Trump with more respect than most American politicians.
definitely looks like La Raza
“Sheinbaum’s parents were committed leftists, with a copy of Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital” hidden in the closet. “
Call me crazy, but a red-diaper baby as president of Mexico sounds like a bad idea.
I have to concur.
Yeah. Looking back, it made sense. They were both "populists".
“Call me crazy, but a red-diaper baby as president of Mexico sounds like a bad idea.”
The USA had Obama, why should we suffer alone?
I instantly thought of the kind of hilarious routines our legendary, pre-woke Jewish comedians would have done on the topic of a Jewish woman being elected president of Mexico.
I’m laughing out loud about it, actually.
If Sheinbaum is indeed a “protégé” of López Obrador she has to be bad news. Like being a “pal of Barry Soetoro.”
How do you pronounce “Karen” in Spanish?
Sounds like she's a JINO.
Twenty-five years ago, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which was still Center-Right and Pro-Israel, ranked Mexico as the #1 Most Antisemitic Country in the Western Hemisphere.
Does Madame Sheinbaum despise Netanyahu and 2024 Israel?
*Trump can steamroll her when he gets back in.*
Women-Take away reason and accountability-Jack Nicholson.
Trump will not be able to get her to back down like he bragged with the other guy. Push will have to come to shove.
another bleeding heart...
Every Mexican President has been lily-White. While the majority of the population is Mestizo.
Long overdue.
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