Claudia Sheinbaum is the new, first female president of Mexico. She graduated in Physics and then in Engineering, she ran with the left-wing coalition led by Morena (National Regeneration Movement) of the outgoing president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. But who is there 61 year old, daughter of academicsof Jewish origins whose family migrated to Mexico last century?
“I’ve always said it: I’m a daughter of ’68,” Sheinbaum claimed on social media last April. During the election campaign she recalled several times that she had inherited the movementist political fervor of her parents, who took part in the protests, since she was a student. of ’68. The new president received her doctorate from Berkeley, California, a university that is a symbol of student struggles in the US.
Following in her parents’ footsteps she entered into an academic career, and in this capacity in 2007 she arrived at the IPCC, the UN panel that draws up reports on climate change and which won the Nobel Prize that year.
In the same years she became close to Lopez Obrador, elected mayor of Mexico City in 2000, starting to work with him as Environment Councilor. And when Amlo became president in 2018, Sheinbaum was elected the first mayor of the capital, a position she left in June 2023 when she ran in the presidential primaries of Morena.
The polls already gave Sheinbaum a large double-digit lead.
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