Claudia Sheinbaum is likely to be Mexico’s next president. Who is she?

MSN/WaPo ^ | May 2024 | Mary Beth Sheridan, Lorena Ríos

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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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Mexico needs to be attacked for their decades-long invasion of the USA.

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Based on this article, she received her education at Cal Berkeley, which means she’s received a Marxist education and is likely a true believer.

Hopefully, she’s not stupid enough to invite a foreign enemy like Russia or China to maybe build a port in Mexico or some other way invite them in a formal basis, worse yet, she could invite in Iran or give safe haven to known terrorist groups besides the Cartels.

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This is the actress’s daughter in 2013 Star Trek Continues.

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White-ish, but not all lily-white. Diaz was part Indian. Juarez was all Indian.