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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The first female president in north america jeb write better headlines smh

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

not true, in north america she's actually the 6th female president, and 10th 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 had a female president (excluding countries where the presidency is only a figurehead role):

  • Costa Rica

  • Haiti

  • Honduras (incumbent)

  • Nicaragua

  • Panama

NA countries that have had a female PM (excluding countries where the prime ministry is only a figurehead role):

  • Barbados (incumbent)

  • Canada (only interim so kinda on a technicality)

  • Dominica

  • Jamaica

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

First elected president in nafta states jeb (i was going by concacaf zones 🥺)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not a president, but Canada had a female PM for like 4 months in 1993.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

not elected jeb (or was she?)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

You are right! Thanks for the feedback, comrade!!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

How did AMLO lose? I thought he was popular.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

She is the continuation (at least seems so) of AMLO.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

He didn't lose, he just cannot serve another term. She belongs to his party and he effectively campaigned for her. His popularity helped boost her in the election.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. It would be dope if they get a clear majority and use it to change the constitution.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Liberals are already seething. Guessd in Mexico we are not "civilized" enough for a female president.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

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"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Only one term per president? That seems a bit extreme.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

There are very understandable reasons based in Mexican history for strict term limits.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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) 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 and who they try to pin all sorts of economic woes on.

Not one of the mainstream media articles about her so far has mentioned that she is extremely pro-Palestinian.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yea its interesting that western media lumps in AMLO & Modi, Erdogan, Orban into one 'populist' blob.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

to liberals populism = government i don’t like