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Mexico’s incoming president announces top posts but her new cabinet includes familiar faces

Mexico’s incoming president has announced her appointees for top posts, but hopes for a fresh approach were dashed by the re-appearance of old faces in the new cabinet.

Mexico’s incoming president appoints expert in sustainable development as head of energy

Mexico’s incoming president announces first Cabinet picks: academics and former public servants

Mexico’s incoming president says surveys show support for controversial judicial reforms

Aides’ vehicle in a convoy carrying Mexico’s next president involved in a crash that killed 1

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Mixed feelings in Mexico as two women vie for country’s presidency

Still hurting from violence, Mexican priests and families hope for peace ahead of elections

Xóchitl Gálvez trails the ruling party’s candidate to be Mexico’s first female president

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Mexican peso weakens as next president vows to forge ahead with 20 reforms - and adds a couple more

The Mexican peso has continued to weaken as Mexico’s outgoing president _ and his successor _vowed to forge ahead with some 20 constitutional changes that have rattled investors.

Mexico’s outgoing president vows to pursue changes to Constitution despite market nervousness

Mexico’s outgoing president has pledged to press ahead with judicial reforms despite nervousness among investors, and suggestions from his own handpicked successor that he should wait.

Mexico’s next president faces 3 pressing challenges: money, dialogue and the US election

Mexico’s newly elected president faces a long list of challenges, including persistent cartel violence, a deeply divided country, cash-straitened social programs and the long shadow of her mentor, outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Market jitters follow election of first woman as Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum

Mexico’s first female president held out an olive branch to the more than one-third of Mexicans who didn’t vote for her, but she faces a market meltdown and a tough path toward reconciling a country left deeply divided by outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The first woman elected to lead Mexico faces pressing gender-related issues

Claudia Sheinbaum’s name will go down in Mexican history. The governing party candidate has won Mexico’s presidential election, a turning point in a mostly conservative nation that for over two centuries has been exclusively ruled by men.

A scientist, a leftist and a former Mexico City mayor. Who is Claudia Sheinbaum?

Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s next president and its first woman leader in more than 200 years of independence, captured the post by promising continuity.

Mexico elects Claudia Sheinbaum as its first female president

Mexico’s projected election winner Claudia Sheinbaum will become the first female president in the country’s 200-year history.

Sexist tropes and misinformation swirl online as Mexico prepares to elect its first female leader

As voters in Mexico head to the polls, a flurry of false, sexist and misleading posts on social media are blurring the lines between fact and fiction.

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As election nears, violence is key issue for Mexicans, including Catholics jolted by priest killings

Ahead of upcoming presidential elections, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum have strongly rejected any criticism of the governing party’s security strategies.

Mexico’s presidential front-runner walks a thin, tense line in following outgoing populist

As she runs to replace outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Claudia Sheinbaum is struggling to construct her own image, leaving many wondering whether she can escape the shadow of the larger-than-life incumbent.

Mexico presidential candidates offer little detail to address country’s violence in final debate

Less than two weeks from Mexico’s national elections, opposition presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez is trying to close the gap between herself and governing party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum.

Mexico proudly controls its energy but could find it hard to reach its climate goals

Mexico’s taking control of its oil from U.S. and British companies is taught in schools and celebrated every year.

AP WAS THERE: Mexico’s 1938 seizure of the oil sector from US companies

Mexico took control of its most precious natural resource by seizing the oil sector from U.S. companies in a move that’s taught to schoolchildren and celebrated as a great patriotic victory.

Mexico’s presidential candidates discuss social spending, climate change in 2nd debate

Mexico’s leading presidential candidate repeatedly touted the social programs of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and walked a fine line between supporting the national oil company and promising a clean energy transition in the second debate ahead of the June 2 election.

A woman might win the presidency of Mexico. What could that mean for abortion rights?

If a woman wins Mexico’s presidency during the June 2 elections, would she rule with gender in mind?

Mexico’s likely next president would be its first leader with a Jewish background

By mid-2024, Claudia Sheinbaum will most likely become Mexico’s first female president. She would also be its first leader with a Jewish background in a country that’s home to nearly 100 million Catholics.

Mexico’s leading presidential candidate stopped by masked men who ask for help in stemming violence

Masked men stopped a vehicle carrying Mexico’s leading presidential candidate while she was traveling between campaign stops to ask that she address the violence in the southern state of Chiapas if she wins the June 2 election.

Candidates spar in Mexico’s first presidential debate ahead of June 2 election

In Mexico’s first presidential debate ahead of June 2 elections, former Mexico City Mayor and frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum appeared comfortable with her lead, remaining calm amid ex-Senator Xóchitl Gálvez’s personal attacks.

Mexico’s likely next president is a scientist. Politics has her mostly quiet on climate threats

Sea-level rise and increasingly ferocious storms are eroding thousands of miles of Mexico’s coastline.