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Yesenia Lara Gutiérrez of the governing Morena party was gunned down while she was greeting supporters in the small town of Texistepec in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz on Sunday, where she was running for election. As she walks through the smiling and chanting crowd, gunfire suddenly rings out off camera. Some 20 gunshots can be heard in the video, which was still up on Gutiérrez’s Facebook page until the following day. Gutiérrez’s daughter was also killed in the shooting along with two others, while three more were wounded, Veracruz Governor Rocío Nahle García, also from the Morena party...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has officially caved, telling her nation’s press corps that she has no intention of escalating a trade war with the United States if President Donald Trump makes good on his promise to levee new tariffs on imports from her nation. Addressing the media on Tuesday from the National Palace in Mexico City, Sheinbaum declared that she would not pursue “retaliatory” tariffs if Trump slaps new ones on Mexican-made imports such as vehicles, agriculture, manufacturing products, and other goods. She promised on Thursday to “announce a comprehensive program, not a tit-for-tat on tariffs.” Instead, her administration will...

Mexico’s president has accused the US of harboring drug cartels and American citizens of working with organized crime groups in Mexico, in a riposte to Donald Trump’s allegation of an “intolerable alliance” between traffickers and her government. “There is also organized crime in the United States and there are American people who come to Mexico with these illegal activities,” Claudia Sheinbaum said during her morning press conference on Thursday. “Otherwise who would distribute fentanyl in the cities of the United States?”

Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said Sunday she expected "good" relations marked by "dialogue" with US President-elect Donald Trump when he returns to the White House in a week. In a speech to mark her first 100 days in office, Mexico's first female president stressed that her country, which is in Trump's sights over illegal migration and drug trafficking, was "free, independent and sovereign." "We coordinate, we collaborate, but we never subordinate ourselves" to other powers, the 62-year-old leftist president told thousands of supporters at a rally in Mexico City. Sheinbaum's early days in office have been dominated by a war...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum appears to have changed her mind and warmed to the concept of receiving migrants from other countries who are expected to be deported by the Trump administration later this month. During her daily news conference on Friday, Sheinbaum claimed that Mexico and the U.S. could collaborate on cases where migrants are deported to Mexico instead of being returned to their countries of origin. The Mexican politician said that Mexico could receive migrants from certain countries or ask the U.S. for compensation to return them to their home countries.

Mexican President Claudi Sheinbaum has indicated that she is ready to accept millions of illegal aliens set to be deported under the incoming administration. During her daily press briefing, Shenbaum said that in cases where the U.S. would not return them to their home countries, Mexico would be willing to accept them. v “We can collaborate through different mechanisms,” she said, although did not mention any specific details about what this may entail. “There will be time to speak with the United States government if these deportations really happen, but we will receive them here, we are going to receive...

What a difference a day makes! Especially when that day was November 5th.For the last four years, Mexico stood by while Joe Biden threw open the borders and did nothing about the drug cartels. Millions of people illegally entered during that period and deadly narcotics flooded the country. Now that the American electorate voted for real border security and an end to narco-trafficking, the Mexican government has decided to act -- before Donald Trump and his hardliners act first: > With Trump and his allies this year floating the use of American military force against Mexico’s drug cartels, Mexican officials...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is very concerned that President Trump will return the illegal migrants to Mexico. Perhaps Mexico should have thought about this before allowing millions of illegal migrants to travel through their country on the way to the U.S. southern border. President Sheinbaum is now telling people she wants an agreement with President Trump so that her country does not suffer from millions of illegal aliens swarming Mexico. The irony is too thick.

President-elect Donald Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum discussed Mexico’s approach to staving off illegal migration from Mexico but came away from the conversation with different characterizations of the plan. The call between the two leaders on Wednesday comes on the heels of Mr. Trump’s announcement that he would slap a 25% tariff on Mexico, Canada and China on all products coming from the countries until the flow of illegal migrants and drugs into the U.S. is halted. Mr. Trump said in a post on Truth Social that their conversation was “very productive” and that Ms. Sheinbaum “has agreed to...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum pushed back on President-elect Trump’s claim suggesting Mexico agreed to close its border with the U.S. “effectively immediately.” “In our conversation with President Trump, I explained to him the comprehensive strategy that Mexico has followed to address the migration phenomenon, respecting human rights,” Sheinbaum wrote Wednesday evening in a post on social platform X, according to translation from CNN. “Thanks to this, migrants and caravans are assisted before they arrive at the border,” she added. “We reiterate that Mexico’s position is not to close borders but to build bridges between governments and between peoples.”

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will wait until all votes are finalized in the US election before she acknowledges Donald Trump as the winner. Sheinbaum, who took office last month, told reporters at her daily press briefing in the National Palace in Mexico City Wednesday that she preferred to wait until several states completed the vote count. 'There is news that President Trump won, but we are going to wait, anyway, until today when some states finish counting and we can give the official announcement,' Sheinbaum said. Trump secured a resounding victory over Vice President Kamala Harris and a return to...

Cardinal, exorcists have differing takes on ‘cleansing’ ritual performed on Mexican presidentA Mexican cardinal and three priests, two of them exorcists, have differing takes on the “cleansing” ritual that was performed during the inauguration of the country’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum.Sheinbaum, a candidate of the coalition Let’s Keep Making History — which consists of the political parties National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), Labor Party (PT), and Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) — was the winner of the June 2 presidential elections. She assumed office on Oct. 1.Sheinbaum succeeds President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, founder of MORENA who in December 2018...

Mexico's new president Claudia Sheinbaum has said she would have a "good" relationship with Donald Trump if he becomes president again. Sheinbaum, the candidate of Mexico's current ruling party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), will become the country's first woman president, after winning the presidential election in a landslide. She will succeed her mentor, outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Asked about her thoughts on a possible Trump victory in an interview with Bloomberg News last month, Sheinbaum, Mexico's first Jewish president, said she would be able to maintain good ties regardless of who is commander-in-chief in the U.S. "I...

In a landmark election, Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman, and the first Jewish person, to be elected president of Mexico. This year’s election is considered the largest in Mexico’s history, with the highest number of voters casting ballots for the presidency and more than 20,000 local, state and congressional posts. This page shows preliminary results provided in real time on election night. The vote counts that determine the final result will take place from June 5 to June 8. Claudia Sheinbaum A scientist and former mayor of Mexico City who has pledged to continue President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's...

President Biden on Monday congratulated Claudia Sheinbaum for her historic win after she was elected the first female president of Mexico. “I look forward to working closely with President-elect Sheinbaum in the spirit of partnership and friendship that reflects the enduring bonds between our two countries. I expressed our commitment to advancing the values and interests of both our nations to the benefit of our peoples,” Biden said in a statement. Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former Mexico City mayor, is the first woman and the first Jewish person ever to be president of Mexico. She beat the opposition candidate...

Mexico goes into Sunday’s election deeply divided: friends and relatives no longer talk politics for fear of worsening unbridgeable divides, while drug cartels have split the country into a patchwork quilt of warring fiefdoms. The atmosphere is literally heating up, amid a wave of unusual heat, drought, pollution and political violence. Opposition presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez has focused her ire on López Obrador’s “hugs not bullets” policy of not confronting the drug cartels. She faces former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, who is running for López Obrador's Morena party. Sheinbaum, who leads in the race, has promised to continue all...

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,...

Melanie Morgan, founder of Move America Forward, the nation’s largest pro-troop organization, led about a dozen conservative activists who protested at the Venice home of Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans at a Saturday afternoon fundraiser for California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown. Morgan reports the pro-American protesters, “blocked the entrance of hundreds of wealthy Democrat liberals, including Sally Kellerman and Cindy Asner, ex-wife of Ed Asner.” Protesters laid down on the sidewalk outside the entrance gate where guests had to step over them. Event host Jodie Evans was visibly angry at getting a taste of her own medicine and had...