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.
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.
yea its interesting that western media lumps in AMLO & Modi, Erdogan, Orban into one ‘populist’ blob.
to liberals populism = government i don’t like
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.
The first female president in north america
write better headlines smhnot 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):
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Costa Rica
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Haiti
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Honduras (incumbent)
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Nicaragua
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Panama
NA countries that have elected a female PM (excluding countries where the prime ministry is only a figurehead role):
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Barbados (incumbent)
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Dominica
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Jamaica
unelected leaders:
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Canada (interim PM)
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Haiti (interim president, tried to coup the government)
First elected president in nafta states
(i was going by concacaf zones 🥺)
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You are right! Thanks for the feedback, comrade!!
Not a president, but Canada had a female PM for like 4 months in 1993.
not elected
(or was she?)
How did AMLO lose? I thought he was popular.
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.
Thanks. It would be dope if they get a clear majority and use it to change the constitution.
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.
Liberals are already seething. Guessd in Mexico we are not “civilized” enough for a female president.
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”
LMAO
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
Only one term per president? That seems a bit extreme.
There are very understandable reasons based in Mexican history for strict term limits.
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
She is the continuation (at least seems so) of AMLO.
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
