Mexican Corridos About Trump Assassination Attempt Released

Posted on July 16, 2024 by Allan Wall

A corrido is a Mexican song genre which relates a story. At least two corridos have already been released by Mexican musicians in the United States about the recent attempt to assassinate former and possible future U.S. president Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13th.

Are these examples of Mexican assimilation to American culture, or American assimilation to Mexican culture?

I’m not sure, but what is for sure is that corrido composers are always on the lookout for a dramatic story, and the Trump assassination attempt certainly fits that bill.

The first corrido on this topic I learned of is entitled el corrido Del Atentado a Donald Trump (The Corrido of the Attempt on Donald Trump). The lyrics were composed by Pepe Sanchez, and recorded by Compa Camaney, vocalist and accordeonist of Conjunto Diamante Norteño, a group located in Greensboro, North Carolina. Compa Comaney is from San Luis Potosi in Mexico.

Source: Milenio

Here are the lyrics in English, my translation. I do not claim the same literary quality for the English translation as the Spanish original. But it’s the meaning. Here are the lyrics:

“From afar he [the shooter] was pointing with a rifle at his [Trump’s] head
and when he shot him he hit an ear.
He (the shooter) wanted to take away the existence of Trump, the former president.
Two bullets he shot, but with bad aim,
but immediately the police shot him down.
He wanted to murder Trump , who knows why?  
The news spead in that moment,
they wanted to kill Trump in a violent attack,
who knows the reason they wanted Trump dead? 
The people saw that sniper,
they informed the police and they [the police] did not mobilize,
they took action after he was shot.

“Trump is a brave man,
and has not known fear,
because he appeared calm and of that there are many witnesses,
he didn’t get agitated at all regardless of what happened. 
Trump was saved by a miracle, but he saw it [death] close,
because he received  a shot in one of his ears,
but the sniper shot at his head. 
Two wounded and a dead man, followed in the Trump incident
and also the one who shot him lost his life,
after shooting at Trump, the police shot him down.

Click here for a video of the corrido, click here for the lyrics in Spanish, click here for an article in Milenio:

Here are the lyrics in Spanish (by Pepe Sanchez):

“Desde lejos le apuntaba con un rifle a la cabeza
y cuando le disparó fue y le pegó en una oreja
al expresidente Trump, quería quitar la existencia,
dos balazos le tiró, pero no con puntería,
pero de inmediatamente lo abatió la policía,
quiso asesinar a Trump, quién sabe por qué sería.
La noticia se extendió en ese mismo momento,
quisieron matar a Trump en un ataque violento,
quién sabe por qué razón, a Trump lo querían ver muerto.
La gente se percató de aquel francotirador,
avisó a la policía y no se movilizó,
se pusieron en acción ya después que disparó.

Trump es un hombre valiente que el miedo no ha conocido,
porque se veía calmado y de eso hay muchos testigos,
no se agüitó para nada a pesar de lo ocurrido.
Trump se salvó de milagro, pero si la miró cerca,
porque recibió un balazo en una de sus orejas,
pero el francotirador le tiraba la cabeza.
Dos heridos y un muerto, seguido en el de este Trump,
y también perdió la vida aquel que le disparó,
después de tirarle a Trump, la policía lo abatió.

Another corrido about the assassination attempt has surfaced, by the
Grupo Norteño Gethsemani de Los Angeles. You can listen to it here.

There may be more out there.

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How Many Americans Live in Mexico?

Posted on July 9, 2024 by Allan Wall

My previous Mexico News Report asked the question How Many Americans Travel to Mexico ?

This article asks the question “How Many Americans Live in Mexico?

Why do Americans move to Mexico?

Some go there to teach English. Some are missionaries. Some American retirees move to Mexico. There are American business people who reside in Mexico. Americans of Mexican ancestry sometimes move to Mexico. And now we have the “digital nomads”, people who work online and thus can live in many places, who choose to reside in Mexico.

I myself formerly resided in Mexico, for about a decade and a half.

Today it is estimated that there are 1.6 million Americans living in Mexico.

Banderas News is an English-language Mexican website published in Puerto Vallarta on the Mexican Pacific Coast.

Banderas News recently published an article entitled U.S. Citizens Migrating to Mexico in Record Numbers. It reports the 1.6 million American estimate, and says that “Factors driving this migration include lower living costs, healthcare expenses, and rent, along with ample job opportunities.”

There are also Canadians living in Mexico. When I was teaching English in Mexico, a number of my colleagues were Canadians.

Source: ontheworldmap.com
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How Many Americans Travel to Mexico ?

Posted on July 1, 2024 by Allan Wall

How many Americans travel to Mexico annually?

On June 20th, Statista.com published a list entitled Number of United States citizens traveling to Mexico from 2002 to 2023.

In 2023, 36.71 million Americans traveled to Mexico. That was an increase over the previous year’s total of 33.54 million.

The highest total on the list was in the year 2019, when 39.94 million Americans traveled to Mexico. The next year, 2020, saw a drastic drop due to COVID, but even that year it was 21.73 million.

There was an increase every year from 2011 to 2019, then the COVID drop in 2020, and an increase in each of the 3 years after that, with the total of 36.71 million in 2023.

Source: OnTheWorldMap.com
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The Astonishing Growth and Power of Mexico’s MORENA Party

Posted on June 23, 2024 by Allan Wall
MORENA party symbol:
“MORENA -The Hope of Mexico”
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Claudia Sheinbaum won the Mexican presidential
election on June 2nd, 2024. Her MORENA party
also did quite well in the Mexican congressional
election.

Amazingly, the MORENA party has only existed
as a political party for 10 years, since 2014.
It was founded by current President
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO).
It is now the biggest and most powerful
political party in Mexico.
Take a look at the last four election cycles and you can
see how impressive the growth of the party is.

THE 2006 MEXICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Back in 2006, there were three main political parties in Mexico: the PRD (left), the PRI (center) and the PAN (right). From left to right, here are the three candidates: AMLO of the PRD coalition, Roberto Madrazo of the PRI coalition, Felipe Calderon of the PAN.

(Photo Credits: AMLO photo by Ariel Gutierrez Vivanco; Madrazo photo by Gustavo Benitez; Calderon photo by Roosewelt Pinheiro.)

It was a close and disputed election. Calderon (right) won with 36.69% of the vote,
squeaking by AMLO (left) with 36.09% of the vote. Madrazo (middle) had 22.75% of the vote.  (In Mexico you only need a plurality, not a majority to win the presidency).  

Look at map the below and you can see that northern Mexico (in blue) mostly went for Calderon and southern Mexico (in yellow) mostly went for AMLO

Source: Alberto0617

THE 2012 MEXICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
In 2012, the three main parties were still the PRD, the PRI and the PAN. The main candidates were AMLO of the leftist PRD coalition ( left), Enrique Pena Nieto of the centrist PRI coalition (middle) and Josefina Vasquez Mota of the right-wing PAN (right):

Source: Notimex TV
Photo by
Angelica Rivera

Photo by Eneas de Troya

Pena Nieto (middle) won the election with 39.17% of the vote. AMLO (left) won 32.41% of the vote and Vazquez Mota won 26.03% of the vote.

Note the map below. The PRI dominated in western and central Mexico, the PAN on the Gulf Coast and the PRD in the south:

Source: Alberto0617

THE 2018 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

This year was AMLO’s third time to run, but this time he was the standard-bearer of his new MORENA party, which he had founded. The three principal candidates were
AMLO of the leftist MORENA coalition (left), Jose Antonio Meade of the PRI coalition (center) and Ricardo Anaya of the right/left PAN coalition (right):

Source: USEmbassyMEX
Source: UK Foreign Office

Source: Agencia de Noticias ANDES

AMLO won the 2018 election with 54.71% of the vote, followed by Anaya of the PAN coalition with 22.91% and Meade with 16.88%. Additionally, independent candidate Jaime “el Bronco” Rodriguez garnered 5.38% of the vote. As for the PRD, formerly AMLO’s party, it actually ran in coalition with the PAN. Note the map of the 2018 election. AMLO won in every state with the exception of Guanajuato (blue on the map):

Source: Alberto0617


THE 2024 MEXICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
By 2024, the political panorama is very different. What were formerly the 3 principal parties (PAN, PRI and PRD) are now one coalition with one candidate, Xochitl Galvez. There’s a small party (Movimiento Ciudadano) running a candidate (Jorge Alvarez Maynez). And MORENA is running in coalition with two smaller parties, with the candidate Claudia Sheinbaum.

(Photo Sources: Sheinbaum Eneas De Troya; Alvarez Maynez EneasMX ; Galvez EneasMX)

This time, MORENA won with an even bigger majority than in 2018. Claudia Sheinbaum, the MORENA coalition candidate, received 59.7594 % of the total. Xochitl Galvez of the PAN/PRI/PRD coalition received 27.4517 % of the total. Jorge Alvarez Maynez of Movimiento Ciudadano won 10.3213% of the total.

And look at the map. Sheinbaum of MORENA won every state with the exception of Aguascalientes:

Source: Alberto0617

In the Mexican congressional election, MORENA won majorities in both houses of the Congress. In the Chamber of Deputies (House of Representatives equivalent) the MORENA coalition (MORENA, Labor Party, Green Party) won 372 seats out of 500. That’s higher than the 334 seats which would give them a two-thirds super-majority. In the Senate, the MORENA coalition (MORENA, Green Party,Labor Party) won 83 seats out of 128. That’s two seats short of the 85 required for a two-thirds super-majority, necessary for constitutional amendments.

CONCLUSION

In the past ten years, AMLO has accomplished a lot. Not only did he win the presidency, but he formed a political party which is now the biggest and most powerful party in Mexico, and his protege (Sheinbaum) is set to take office on October 1st.

The former major parties, the PAN, PRI and PRD have been greatly diminished.

The supporters and politicians of the MORENA party are glad, of course.

But is it good for one party to wield so much power?

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Who is Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s Next President?

Posted on June 21, 2024 by Allan Wall

Claudia Sheinbaum. Source: EneasMX


On June 2nd, 2024, Claudia Sheinbaum won
the Mexican presidential election.

She is scheduled to take office as president
on October 2nd, as Mexico’s first
woman president and first Jewish president.

A Mexican presidential term is 6 years. Thus
her term should go from 2024 to 2030.

Who is Claudia Sheinbaum and what kind of
president will she be?

GENERAL BIOGRAPHY

Claudia Sheinbaum was born in 1962 in Mexico City, the daughter of Carlos Sheinbaum and Annie Pardo. Her father was a chemical engineer and her mother a biologist.

Claudia Sheinbaum is an ethnic Jew, though she does not practice Judaism as a religion.  

A scientist, Sheinbaum studied physics at Mexico’s UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and earned her PhD in energy engineering at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California in the U.S.A.

Dr. Sheinbaum has written more than 100 articles and two books dealing with energy, environment and sustainable development.

In 2007, Dr. Sheinbaum was on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the United Nations in the field of energy and industry and was part of a group that won the Nobel Peace Prize.

From 2000 to 2006, Dr. Sheinbaum was Mexico City’s Secretary of the Environment. From 2015 to 2017 she was mayor of Tlalpan, a borough in Mexico City.  

From 2018 to 2023, Claudia Sheinbaum was Mayor of Mexico City.

POLITICS

Claudia Sheinbaum is a member of the leftist MORENA party, now the most powerful party in Mexico.

She is a protege of current President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO).

Sheinbaum has pledged to continue AMLO’s Cuarta Transformación, the “Fourth Transformation”. This agenda refers to the fourth historical transformation of the country after three previous transformations: (1) The Independence Struggle (1810-1821; (2) The Reform War 1857-1861; and (3) the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920).

JEWISH ETHNICITY

Claudia Sheinbaum is an ethnic Jew.

Her father was an Ashkenazi Jew. Ashkenazis descend from the German Jews of the Middle Ages. Her mother is a Sephardi Jew. Sephardis descend from Spanish Jews of the Middle Ages.

Her father’s parents migrated to Mexico in the 1920s, from Lithuania. Her mother’s parents migrated to Mexico from Bulgaria, escaping the Holocaust, in the 1940s.

Claudia Sheinbaum participated in Jewish religious celebrations with her grandparents, but her parents were secular.

There are about 50,000 Jews in Mexico, mostly in Mexico City. While American Jews tend to vote for the Left, in Mexico the Jews tend to vote Center-Right. Therefore, it’s likely that most Mexican Jews did not vote for Sheinbaum.

While Claudia Sheinbaum is the first ethnic Jew to be President-elect, she is not the first Mexican president to have some Jewish ancestry.

Most Mexican presidents have substantial Spanish ancestry, and some Spaniards have some Jewish ancestry. This is due to Jews in Spain converting to Catholicism in the Middle Ages and the early Modern Period.

Carlos Salinas, president of Mexico from 1988 to 1994, had some Sephardic Jewish ancestry and on that basis acquired Spanish citizenship in 2021.

President Francisco I. Madero (1911-1913) had some Jewish ancestry, and President Plutarco Elias Calles (1924-1928) was said to have Jewish ancestry. There were probably others.

As far as Claudia Sheinbaum’s election in Mexico, a majority Catholic country, there is nothing surprising about that. The Mexican political world is very secular-oriented, much more so than that of the United States.

CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM’S FAMILY LIFE

Claudia’s father, Carlos Sheinbaum, passed away in 2013. Her mother, Annie Pardo, is still living.

Claudia’s brother Julio is a physicist and oceanographer. Her sister Adriana, a teacher, resides in the United States.

In 1987, Claudia married Carlos Imaz. They had a daughter, Mariana Imaz, born in 1988. Claudia also raised Rodrigo, son of Carlos from a previous marriage.

Claudia and Carlos divorced in 2016.

Tarriba/Sheinbaum. Source: Twitter X

In November of 2023
Claudia Sheinbaum
married Jesús María Tarriba,
who had been her old college boyfriend
back in the 1980s.

When Sheinbaum assumes the presidency,
Tarriba will probably be known as the
Primer Caballero, the “First Gentleman”.

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Mexico’s Election Violence

Posted on June 17, 2024 by Allan Wall

Mexico held an election on June 2nd. It was a massive election, with 20,000 official posts up for grabs, from the presidency and Congress down to local offices. There were 70,000 candidates competing for those 20,000 posts.

In some parts of Mexico, violence accompanied the election, mostly targeting those competing for local offices.

During the campaign season leading up to Election Day, there were 38 candidates assassinated. That surpasses the record of the 2021 midterm elections of 36 assassinated.

According to the InsightCrime website, in this election season, from September 2023 to June 2nd, 2024, “…[E]lection observers recorded 129 political violence events targeting officials…The scale of violence, which included 102 political assassinations, as well as kidnappings, forced disappearances, attempted murders, and attacks on family members, campaign staff, and official infrastructure like ballot boxes, made this election season particularly concerning, Tiziano Breda, ACLED’s Associate Analysis Coordinator for Latin America, told InSight Crime.”

According to Tiziano Breda, “The violence was due to two main reasons: the magnitude of the election, with it being the biggest in the country’s recent history, and it’s also the consequence of how Mexico’s criminal landscape has evolved into a growing number of fractured groups with diverse economic portfolios competing for influence, and therefore exacerbating violence.”

Half of the election violence occurred in just five Mexican states:
Michoacan, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas and Veracruz. See the five states on the map below:

Michoacan, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas and Veracruz. Source: Passagemaker

Click here for another map entitled Officials Killed in Mexico by State | Flourish, which goes from September of 2023 to the Election Day.


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Public Assistance and the Sheinbaum Triumph

Posted on June 14, 2024 by Allan Wall

On June 2nd, Mexico had a presidential election with three candidates: Claudia Sheinbaum, Xochitl Galvez and Jorge Alvarez Maynez.

Sheinbaum, Galvez, Alvarez Maynez. Source: Reuters

Claudia Sheinbaum won. The results:
CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM received 35,924,519 votes, which was 59.7594 % of the total.
XOCHITL GALVEZ received 16,502,697 votes, which was 27.4517 % of the total.
JORGE ALVAREZ MAYNEZ received 6,204,710 votes, which was 10.3213% of the total.

AMLO. Source: EneasMX

Claudia Sheinbaum’s political party is MORENA,
the same party as current president
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO).

On June 7th, Milenio published an interesting article by Saul Hernandez. The article was entitled Sheinbaum eleva su votación en estados con más programas sociales, which translates to “Sheinbaum elevates her vote in states with more social programs”. Here is the link to the article:
Sheinbaum eleva su votación en estados con más programas sociales – Grupo Milenio

Here’s what Hernandez reports (my translation):

“A cross-reference of data carried out by Milenio reveals that the former chief of government of Mexico City [Claudia Sheinbaum] won the presidential election with 63.5% of the votes in the 16 states with the greatest coverage of social programs. In contrast, she received 56.2% of the votes in the 16 entities with fewer programs.”

To be clear, with the exception of Aguascalientes, Sheinbaum won in every state and in Mexico City. But she had a wider margin of victory in states with more government welfare.

“In Oaxaca and Chiapas, where more than half the population has a subsidy from the federal government, [Claudia Sheinbaum] won with more than 70% of the vote (compared to 59.8% nationally).”

“She also won wide margins in San Luis Potosi, Hidalgo, Veracruz, Nayarit, Yucatan, Campeche, Puebla and Guerrero, where the signature programs of Obradorism surpass the national coverage of 29% and arrived to least 1 of every 3 persons.”

“In contrast, her victory was more modest in places where scholarship and pensions are not so broad. This is the case of Nuevo Leon, Queretaro, Guanajuato and Jalisco, where fewer than a fifth of the population receives federal assistance.”

“In Aguascalientes, the only entity in which the opposition candidate Xochitl Galvez beat Sheinbaum, social programs only benefit 15% of the inhabitants.”

Then Hernandez looks back six years to the previous election:

“…[I]n the same 16 states where Claudia Sheinbaum won with a wide margin, Lopez Obrador also obtained a wider victory six years ago (56.6%) than he obtained in the other half of the country (49.7%). This was before there were so many social programs.”

“Sheinbaum swept the election where Andres Manuel also did before. The difference is that with [Sheinbaum] the margin of victory was even wider, now with the asstance programs of Obradorism at their height.”

This also fits in with a national exit poll conducted by El Financiero (my translation):
“Another weighty factor in the [vote for MORENA] was that of social programs: 56% of the voters reported themselves, their family or both, having received social benefits from the government. Among that segment of beneficiaries, Sheinbaum received 69% of the vote, in contrast to 23% for Xochitl Galvez. Nevertheless, Sheinbaum also had the advantage among non-beneficiaries, obtaining 49% of the votes of that sector, in contrast to 37% who chose to vote for the opposition candidate [Galvez].”

It definitely appears that AMLO’s social assistance programs had an effect on the election, driving up the vote for the MORENA candidate Claudia Sheinbaum.

But then, since the ancient Romans, politicians have used public assistance to gain public support.

 


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The Next Mexican Congress and the Power of AMLO’s MORENA Party

Posted on June 12, 2024 by Allan Wall

In Mexico’s general election of June 2nd, Claudia Sheinbaum, of current president AMLO’s MORENA party, won handily.

In the same election, the entire Mexican Congress was up for grabs.

MORENA and its coalition also won a majority in both chambers of Congress.

THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES

The lower house is the Cámara de Diputados, the Chamber of Deputies, equivalent to the U.S. House of Representatives. It has 500 representatives, and meets here in the Palacio Legislativo de San Lázaro:

Source: Cámara de Diputados Website

In the Chamber of Deputies, MORENA’s coalition (including MORENA, the Labor Party and the Green Party) won 372 seats out of 500. That’s higher than the 334 seats which would give them a two-thirds super-majority.

THE SENATE

The upper house is the Senado, the Senate, equivalent to the U.S. Senate. It has 128 senators, and meets here:

Source: Wikimedia Commons

In the Senate, the MORENA coalition (MORENA, Green Party and Labor Party) won 83 seats out of 128. That’s two seats short of the 85 required for a two-thirds super-majority.

RAMIFICATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS

It takes a two-thirds super-majority in both houses to amend the Mexican Constitution. In the new Congress, set to take office September 1st, the MORENA coalition has the super-majority in the lower chamber and only lacks two votes to have it in the upper chamber. This gives MORENA, which also has the presidency, great power.

Current president AMLO is not a lame duck and still has things he wants to accomplish. AMLO wants to pass a number of reforms in the month of September, his last month as president and the first month of the new Congress.

With its legislative and executive power, the MORENA party could extend its power even more by taking away power from more independent elements of the government, including the Supreme Court and the INE (the election agency). This is concerning to many.

Apparently, it’s a concern to the markets, as well. Since the election, both Mexico’s stock exchange and the peso have dropped.

The MORENA party, founded by AMLO himself, has only been a registered political party for ten years, since 2014. Now it’s the biggest and most powerful party in Mexico.

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Looking at the Mexican Election Results

Posted on June 8, 2024 by Allan Wall

The Mexican election of 2024, held on June 2nd, 2024, was won by Claudia Sheinbaum of the MORENA party.  She is scheduled to assume the presidency on the 1st of October, as Mexico’s first woman president and Mexico’s first Jewish president.

Claudia Sheinbaum. Source: VOA

And it wasn’t just a presidential election. 

It was also an election for the entire Mexican Congress. All 128 seats in the Senado and all 500 seats in the Cámara de Diputados were at stake.

The mayorship of Mexico City was decided, as were 8 state governorships.

There were elections for state legislatures and local governments.

Across Mexico there were more than 20,000 official posts up for grabs on June 2nd, with 70,000 candidates competing for them.

Let’s look at some results:

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

There were three candidates:

Sheinbaum, Galvez, Alvarez Maynez. Source: Reuters

CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM (on left in photo). Candidate of the MORENA/PT/GREEN coalition.

XOCHITL GALVEZ (in middle in photo). Candidate of the PAN/PRI/PRD coalition.

JORGE ALVAREZ MAYNEZ (on right in photo). Candidate of the Movimiento Ciudadano party.

Here are the results, according to INE (Instituto National Electoral), the Mexican national electoral agency:

CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM received 35,924,519 votes, which was 59.7594 % of the total.

XOCHITL GALVEZ received 16,502,697 votes, which was 27.4517 % of the total.

JORGE ALVAREZ MAYNEZ received 6,204,710 votes, which was 10.3213% of the total.

So Claudia Sheinbaum won the election very handily. She won in every state except the central state of Aguascalientes, where Xochitl Galvez won narrowly.

CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM DIDN’T EVEN VOTE FOR HERSELF !

Claudia Voting. Source: Diego Simon Sanchez

When she went to vote on June 2nd, Claudia Sheinbaum was so confident of victory that she didn’t even vote for herself!

After voting, she announced that she had voted for Ifigenia Martinez. 

Ifigenia Martinez is a Mexican politician, diplomat and academic who was was head of the school of Economics at UNAM, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, from 1966 to 1970. During the political unrest of 1968, she defended her school when the Mexican Army took control of parts of the UNAM. Sheinbaum respects her for this and thus voted for her as an homage to her.

It appears then that Claudia was confident enough of victory to do this.

MEXICO CITY

Mexico City is not a state, but it’s the equivalent of a state. Its elected leader is not called a governor, but the Jefe (for a man) or Jefa (for a woman) de Gobierno, the “Chief of Government”.

In this election, the post was won by Clara Brugada, of the MORENA/Green/PT coalition. She is scheduled to take office on October 5th.

Clara Brugada. Source: Enfoque Noticias

GOVERNORSHIPS

There were 8 state governorships up for grabs, and the MORENA/PT/Green party won 6 of them: Chiapas, Morelos, Puebla, Tabasco, Veracruz and Yucatan state. Movimiento Ciudadano won in the state of Jalisco and the PAN/PRI/PRD coalition won in Guanajuato.

THE MEXICAN CONGRESS

The MORENA/PT/Green alliance also did quite well in
congressional elections, winning a majority in both houses of Congress. The new
Congress begins its term on September 1st, which is one month before Claudia
Sheinbaum takes office on October 1st. That means that for one month, September
of 2024, the new Congress would be working with current President AMLO, in his
final month in office.


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Claudia Sheinbaum Wins Mexican Presidential Election

Posted on June 3, 2024 by Allan Wall

Mexico held its presidential election on June 2nd. The winner was Claudia Sheinbaum, who beat runner-up Xochitl Galvez by 30 points.

Claudia Sheinbaum, Source: Reuters

¡ Felicidades, Doctora Sheinbaum !

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