‘We will continue working for a united Latin America’: Claudia Sheinbaum, elected president of Mexico, responds to greetings from Gustavo Petro

“President Petro, thank you very much for your congratulations. We will continue working for a united Latin America, for the well-being and happiness of our people and the friendship between our nations. A big hug,” wrote Sheinbaum, after Petro congratulated her on her victory. .

Earlier, Petro congratulated his “friend” Claudia Sheinbaum and applauded that Mexico has elected “a progressive as the first president in its history” after the victory of the leftist candidate this Sunday at the polls.

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“It is a triumph for the Mexican people and for their democracy. Congratulations to my friend Claudia Sheinbaum, together we will work to see Latin America united and progressing,” Petro said in a message on his X account, where he included a photo next to the elected president.
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Also the Vice President and Minister of Equality of Colombia, Francia Márquez, received “with great satisfaction the results of the presidential elections in Mexico, which represent renewed hope for the region.”

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“We congratulate and embrace Claudia Sheinbaum, the first female president of Mexico. The ties of freedom and justice that unite our people date back to historical leaders such as General José María Melo and Benito Juárez. We look forward to a highly successful mandate, working together to strengthen the change towards social justice in Mexico and throughout the region,” Márquez added on social networks.

Sheinbaum made history by being elected this Sunday as the first female president of Mexico in 200 years, after obtaining between 58.3% and 60.7% of the votes, according to the quick count of the National Electoral Institute (INE).
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With this result, Sheinbaum, who promised to continue along the path of the current president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, achieved a victory of around 30 points ahead of his main opponent, the opposition and conservative Xóchitl Gálvez.

“I did not arrive alone. We all arrived, with our heroines who gave us our homeland, with our ancestors, our mothers, our daughters and our granddaughters,” said Sheinbaum from a hotel in the Mexican capital once the results were known.
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The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, also assured this Monday that the elected president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, years ago helped the M-19 guerrilla in that country, of which he was a part in his youth, after congratulating her for his victory on Sunday.

“Claudia helped the M-19 in Mexico during the underground times. From a very young age she has been a great social fighter. A woman from the left leading one of the largest nations in the world,” said the Colombian president in a message in your X account.

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In the message, along with a photo with Sheinbaum, Petro added: “May your leadership help us lead Latin America towards a decarbonized economy and the great democratic leap: the revolution of life.”

The M-19 was an urban guerrilla that operated in Colombia from the mid-1970s until the signing of peace and its demobilization in 1990, after which it became a political party with which its members entered politics, among them the now president Gustavo Petro.