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Montevideo, December 22nd 2024 - 17:39 UTC

Tag: Claudia Sheinbaum

  • Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

    Sheinbaum not happy with Moddy's lowering Mexico's grading

    “We are going to get ahead next year,” Sheinbaum insisted

    Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Friday expressed her disappointment after the credit rating agency Moody's lowered her country's grading from stable to negative citing an alleged “institutional weakening.” The newly elected head of state insisted “more arguments or evidence” were needed to back up that claim and denounced that there was a bias against Mexico. On Thursday, Moody's changed Mexico's credit outlook from stable to negative, due to a recent reform to the Judiciary.

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 09:23 UTC

    Lula's presidential airplane makes emergency landing

    The technical problem affecting the Airbus A329CJ is still to be detailed

    Brazilian Air Force's (FAB) VC-1 aircraft carrying President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spent five hours flying in circles, presumably to burn fuel, before making an emergency landing due to technical problems at the Felipe Angeles International Airport, a commercial terminal serving Mexico Valley metropolitan area, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Tuesday, October 1st 2024 - 22:45 UTC

    Leftist Sheinbaum sworn in as Mexico's first female president

    The new head of state has a PhD in energy engineering and considers herself a strong believer in science

    The 62-year-old Claudia Sheinbaum became Mexico's first-ever woman president Tuesday after being sworn in on Tuesday. The former Mexico City Mayor thus succeeds her leftwing MoReNa (Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional) mentor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has announced he would be retiring from politics.

  • Tuesday, June 4th 2024 - 11:59 UTC

    Mexico has elected its first female president, but has behind a very powerful mentor

    Claudia Sheinbaum, the former mayor of Mexico City and president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, AMLO

    By Luis Romero Gómez (*) -On October 17, 1953, constitutional reform granted women the right to vote in Mexico, and two years later, women cast votes in a federal election. Now, nearly 70 years later, Mexico has elected a woman president for the first time, according to Sunday's election results.

  • Monday, June 3rd 2024 - 10:53 UTC

    Sheinbaum poised to become Mexico's first woman president

    Sheinbaum is to succeed her MoReNa comrade AMLO on Oct. 1 for a 6-year term

    According to preliminary projections announced by Mexico's National Electoral Institute (INE) at around midnight Sunday local time, Claudia Sheinbaum of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (MoReNa) Party was poised to become the first woman president of the traditionally macho Latino country. The INE's calculations showed Sheinbaum would be garnering between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote. Turnout was between 60% and 61.5%, it was also reported. Over 99.5 million Mexicans were registered to vote.

  • Thursday, September 7th 2023 - 10:05 UTC

    Mexico's next president will be a woman

    The granddaughter of Jewish families from Bulgaria and Lithuania, Sheinbaum calls herself “a daughter of '68”

    Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has been appointed to run for president on behalf of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) Party in 2024. Sheinbaun was elected through a controversial process of surveys which ended up showing she had about 40% of the voting intention. Sheinbaum's main rival in the primaries, former Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, questioned the validity of the mechanism.

  • Thursday, August 31st 2023 - 15:47 UTC

    Mexico gearing for a major dispute next June, when the first woman could be elected president

    Xóchitl Gálvez is a 60-year-old computer engineer, trained in MIT and businesswoman

    Mexico's opposition coalition has named an outspoken female senator with indigenous roots as their candidate for the 2024 presidential election, raising the prospect of Mexico having a female president for the first time, when the general election next June.

  • Friday, February 11th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

    Mexico City Mayor takes flak for supporting use of ivermectin against COVID-19

    Sheinbaum is ahead in most polls to succeed AMLO in 2024

    Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum came under heavy flak Thursday for her handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for the alleged manipulation of a study which recommended the use of ivermectin to treat this disease.

  • Saturday, July 25th 2020 - 08:43 UTC

    Mayor of Mexico City warns of a possible resurgence of coronavirus cases

    Claudia Sheinbaum told a press conference that in the last five days hospitalizations had increased.

    The mayor of Mexico City warned on Friday of a possible resurgence of coronavirus cases in the sprawling capital in the coming months, noting that hospitalizations have been on the rise in recent days.