The Guadalajara Reporter
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The granddaughter of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews who arrived in Mexico between 1920 and 1940, Claudia Sheinbaum, 61, (Mexico’s virtual president-elect) grew up in middle-class Tlalpan, the largest of Mexico City’s 16 boroughs.
The ruling Morena party and its allies (the Partido Verde and Partido del Trabajo) won important victories in federal Congressional races on June 2.
Mexico goes to the polls on Sunday, June 2, in the largest election ever held in this nation’s history.
As most polls predicted, 61-year-old Claudia Sheinbaum swept to a landslide victory in the June 2 election and will become the first female president of Mexico, after taking office on October 1.
Nine people died and dozens were injured on May 22, when a fierce wind surge caused the collapse of a stage at a campaign rally for Lorenia Canavati, the Citizens Movement (MC) candidate for mayor of San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo Leon.
In a shock development, the British Ambassador to Mexico, Jon Benjamin, has reportedly been removed from his position after pointing an assault rifle at a frightened embassy employee.
Mexico ranked fourth worldwide in the number of “excess deaths” during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an independent commission installed in February to examine how Mexico managed the global health emergency.
A striking image of the devastation caused by the construction of the Mayan tourist train line on the Yucatan Peninsula has earned a major international prize for a Mexican photographer.
The chaos spawned by the claims of massive fraud in the 2020 U.S. elections brought wry smiles to the faces of many Mexicans.