Mexico's new president!
Mexico's new president!
Wait, after all those murders and sabotaging during the elections the people still managed to elect a really worthy president (seems like the best president I've seen in all the countries the last years)??
Wow, maybe I should move to Mexico
Congratulations Mexico!
Edit: Well, hmm:
Either that or back deals with the cartels to ensure the same happened to the opposition, or not to the official candidate
Legitimate question: Who exactly is it that won't attend her inauguration? Were they invited, but refused to attend? Who else from the US is going?
Also, congrats to Mexico! sounds like a great choice for a president!
Yeah, I'd be interested in how many people go to the inauguration of other countries heads of state.
Like, my best guess is that it's a dig at, like, Gov Abbott, but I agree that I don't think I'd expect him to, even if he was a Democrat.
Also, is it normal for them to attend, or are we just making this great Mexico news about America?
Guessing it is common for the state department to send a representative. Perhaps the Secretary of State since it’s an important neighbour. Since it’s campaign time, you could see others going if they believe it helps their reelection bid somehow ( though I don’t know how), but it would not be unusual if only the US ambassador to Mexico is present. I don’t know of any foreign politician that attend the US presidential inauguration.
I mean you have to assume they're talking about like the governor of Texas or something, but I've never heard of them attending before.
I will NOT be attending, so I'm on the list. I can't go, but I won't be going, either, as I neither have an invitation nor the means to do so.
Yeah I'm confused as to why that sentence was in the announcement.
Is this the first Nobel laureate to run a country? How bloody amazing. Well done Mexico!
Barak Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate nine months after his inauguration. Subsequently, he used a drone to murder an American citizen, among a litany of other atrocities.
Meanwhile Lê Đức Thọ refused the prize as it was shared with FUCKING KISSINGER.
He got that prize mainly for not being George W. Bush if I remember 2009 correctly.
We actually bombed the moon on the day of the Nobel Prize announcement!
Seriously though, it was a middle finger to Bush more than anything.
Lots of Peace winners, but Winston Churchill had one in literature:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_and_government_Nobel_laureates#In_office
Churchill was a master of historical non-fiction. Not "history books," per se, but basically books about historical topics pertaining to England that interested him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_the_English-Speaking_Peoples. They were very popular during his day.
Oh yes, I'd forgotten about Winnie. I have a lot more respect for science and literature prizes than the peace prize though. Harder work, I reckon.
Nobel Laureate is a bit of an overstatement but she was part of an organization that won the Nobel Prize, similar to how Amnesty International has won it a few times:
She was a contributing author to the 2007 IPCC report, maybe not a huge deal (there were 100+ authors) but it is reasonably relevant. Here is a chapter that she contributed to (I don't know if there is more than one) and her earlier work is cited.
My first thoughts,
U.S.A.: Can we have that president?
U.S. Govt.: No, you have president at home
Biden
But seriously this is awesome to see, It's nice to see some uplifting news.
I had the impression that people running for office in Mexico were being assassinated a lot, if she is real force for good then I hope she's safe
edit ok I was wrong here, I understand what people disagreeing with me are saying
The top comment on this thread should be an unqualified “Hell yeah!” not speculation over whether she is going to be murdered.
I am not attacking you, I understand the knee jerk reaction, I am just pointing this out because I think it is true. I also don’t question that you are genuine in your concern, that isn’t what I mean.
To everyone else on this thread, especially if you are white/European or from the US and are white please don’t joke about the President of Mexico getting assassinated given the history with Mexico and the US (and by extension Europe). It isn’t funny, even when you are being sarcastic.
Just be happy for Mexico.
I might be wrong but I don't think the commenter was joking. It's not a joke to say a lot of politicians have been assassinated and to question how someone in such a situation managed to get safely elected. I wonder the same thing.
I understand but I literally just left Nogales to visit my stepfather and during my week there there were so many campaign ads. The only thing he told me about them is that candidates from all positions from Mayor to Governor and up wind up dead all the time.
Apparently it's really common and my father had a similar reaction to the top comment. Yes it's scary but it's something that the government needs to take precautions for
The top comment on this thread should be an unqualified “Hell yeah!” not speculation over whether she is going to be murdered.
What should be and what are, are frequently two different things. In this case, political candidates shouldn't be commonly murdered, but that's a reality for them and one they should be planning for.
And it's not a knee jerk reaction, it's just a legitimate worry posted by someone who pays attention to the news. I'm sad to say that I both had the 'hell yeah' reaction right before thinking 'I hope her security can keep her safe' thoughts back to back.
Wasn't that mostly for local offices likes amyors and such?
How the hell did Mexico get a Jewish president before the USA? We need to step up our game.
But also good on her and on Mexico. She sounds exactly like the sort of person I’d want running my country.
they also approved gay marriage and socialized medicine before we did & do
they also had gay marriage … before we did
The US legalized gay marriage nationwide in 2015; Mexico didn’t achieve the same until 2022.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage (Timeline section)
A person with good ideas that leaves their religion at the door would be swell right now. Religion only divides us into smaller, scarier groups. (See: Christian nationalism, women's rights, the middle east, etc.)
That said, it is a damn shame Bernie didn't have a fair chance.
How the hell did Mexico get a Jewish president before the USA?
there just aren't that many places as racist as the good ol USA man.
You have a self-declared zionist in office now.
Mexico City had the world's largest population of Jewish folks before Israel was created, iirc.
Huh, I definitely would’ve guessed it was New York City. I suppose I was mistaken about the ethnoreligious diversity of my neighboring country
We got close once. Unless you want to count Netanyahu
Not at all surprising to me. America is deeply reactionary. Made worse by the fact that our electoral system gives disproportionate representation to rural areas.
She has Jewish ancestry, but she's said she does not practice religion.
Hell, how did Mexico get a female president before the USA wtf? Even South Korea did (okay that one sucked but it's still baffling regarding the US)
United Sates of Israel
In October 1991, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari went to Stanford University to give a talk on the benefits of Latin American neoliberalism, but was met with a demonstration against it. The angry college girl holding the sign with the inscription "Fair Trade and Democracy Now" in English is the current president-elect of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum
En octubre de 1991 el presidente mexicano Carlos Salinas de Gortari fue a la Universidad de Stanford a para dar una charla sobre las bondades del neoliberalismo latinoamericano, pero se encontró con una manifestación en su contra. La chica universitaria enojada que sostiene el cartel con la inscripción "Comercio justo y Democracia ahora" en inglés es la actual presidenta electa de Méxi
co, Claudia SheinbaumAnd the picture from 1991 is in black and white?
GTFO
Edit: seems I was wrong in my assumptions
It’s obviously scanned from a newspaper. Not everything is a conspiracy…
Edit: Found another picture:
Why the hell can't we have candidates this awesome on the ballot here in the US?! 😿
You have Bernie Sanders, AOC
Yes, and I voted for Bernie when he ran and I would absolutely vote for AOC if/when she does run. Just… the choices in this election cycle are wanna-be, half-demented dictator-for-life vs a "moderate" Democrat who, while he's gotten a surprising amount done, isn't exactly renowned for pushing the corporations hard on climate change.
You don't like deciding which person who will be the oldest president we've ever had for president is interesting?
Yeah, it's a pretty frustrating time to be leaning left. And given the chaos Trump would unleash, it's not like there is any choice at all about whether or not to vote for Biden… 😿
bc mexico is actually democratic with significant proportional representation and not the weird arse shit merica calls "democracy"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Mexico#Current_Elected_Federal_Offices
She sounds promising, good luck to Mexicans for the next electoral period.
President Sheinbaum.
Not "President Claudia".
Now the GOP is really hating Mexico.
And below retirement age, too! Finally someone who won't just want to secure a cozy last few few years for their elderly rich friends.
Her republikkklown neighbors are petty, petulant children. I hope she does well.
Which US politicians typically attend the inauguration of the Mexican President? I'm genuinely curious, it's not something I've ever paid attention to and which US politicians attend it isn't usually something that gets news coverage here.
Mike Pence was at the one in 2018.
republikkklown
Grow up, please, lol.
More leaders like her please, looking at you US
Edit but yeah being technically capable aside, many eugenists were PhDs and philosophers. Sam Harris comes to mind as he is a racist and a sophist with lots of academic qualifications. So yeah, ethics and morals also matter greatly. Mexico seems to have lucked out, good for them!
Morena is a staunchly anti-liberal party, they'd never have a chance in the US.
Id love for Bernie to get a real chance
I'm going to move to Mexico I guess. Here in The Netherlands, as well as most of the European countries, right wing extremism is on the rise. Who would have thought it would be Mexico to show we don't have to live in a dystopian shit show.
If you do or know someone that will do, please take into consideration that the housing market in México, right now, has been favoring foreigners and that in some areas, they've displaced the locals and raised prices so much that they can't afford to be there anymore (be for shopping, working, etc.). Please don't contribute to this and research before, do not try to pay in euros/dollars, come legally and work legally.
That's seriously fucked up. I wouldn't want to contribute to that. Sadly, I've seen this shit way to often and I strongly oppose to it.
Also, depending on what you move, make sure to take into account areas with drought, and future rain and heat patterns. Climate change is only going to get worse. Make sure you have a secure water supply to work with.
Ok so I'm not moving for the coming 10 years for sure, and if I'm moving it probably won't be Mexico. But the climate change thing is something I worry about. I live in the Netherlands, most parts are below sea level. The dykes are being reinforced, but the plans for now are finished in about 10 years and won't be high and strong enough in about 5 years, so we need to start to reinforce it even more 5 years before the current plans are being completed. At the same time ground water levels are getting lower, so trees are unable to get water from the ground and die, so the roots will die too and won't be able to hold the ground together. It's getting harder and harder pumping drinking water from the ground. Next to that, salt seawater is normally held back in the ground by the ground water, but because it's level is getting lower while the sea level is rising, salt seawater is making it's way into the ground, killing more greenery because it's polluting the groundwater and making it undrinkable. So I may be forced to move, as well as most inhabitants here if this shit continues. 10 to 12 million people forced to relocate due to lack of water AND too much water at the same time. Weird AF.
Please do so, there is nothing more we love here in LATAM as clueless gringos arriving to be easily robbed
Ha! Jokes on you! I'm poor because I have to spend 1900 euros per month on rent alone so there's nothing to rob me of. You can't even rob me of my dignity anymore.
Jokes aside, I'm aware of the major issues Mexico has. I've never been there but I would love to visit as it's a beautiful country. But I'm too chicken to go due to the high crime rate etc. And tickets are too expensive, I wasn't joking about having no money because my decent salary is being sucked up completely by rent, taxes, bills, insurances and food.
But I'm glad Mexico has elected a leader I could only dream of. I hope she can make a change towards better. Or at least, I hope she is what she looks like. I mean, is she really good or only looks like that (like the president of India). At least she looks like Merkel + + +
This is amazing for the world. Good job Mexico.
Nice! Congratulations Mexico! 🇲🇽 🍾🥂
She's the same party as the incumbent and the results were a blow out. She got a plurality in a three man race, those guys didn't stand a chance.
Worldnews
A Tweet
Thanks, for that, and thanks for dodging R1 by including a link to Boing Boing, they seem reputable
Fair. But did you get the news? In time? was it important?
It was bouncy
Her being a woman is probably the least significant thing about this.
Incoming CIA sponsored coup/assassination.
She appears to be a Social Democrat, not a Socialist, so she should be safe as long as she plays ball with the US, rather than pushing back against US Imperialism.
Morena is a pretty solid party overall, and we should treat socdems in the global south differently from their counterparts in the imperial core.
AMLO for example is pushing hard against the US extradition of Julian Assange, even playing the the collateral murder video when some New York Times journalists started throwing shade. Morena also recognizes Palestine and is closing doors to Israel, against the wishes of the US.
Great to see the people of Mexico continuing to support Morena and reject liberalism, this is a great day.
Mexico recently applied to join the Genocide case against israel.
Lets hope she can keep it going. It's difficult to do deals withh America without being forced into supporting a few coups every so often.
lol @ the downvotes for mentioning the Cartel who is known for assassinating, at the very least threatening government employees and politicians, including actual presidents.
Does Mexico want to get freedomed? Because this is precisely how you get freedomed.
Gotta love these commends: she is less "radical" in her leftist stances as her predecessor. But yes, surely Mexico will be invaded any minute now by the radical inventionist that is Joe Biden.
How can she be president? She doesn’t look like she’s about to die of old age
The important thing is she didn't die from the Cartels. Do you know how many politicians have been taken out by cartels in the last year. Just recently in April down in Chipas a cartel got 538 politicians to resign all on the same day and murdered 38.
To be a politician in Mexico from any party you need blessings from the right people.
Guessing she's still around because the cartels want her around. Not sure how good this is.
Probably the same reason the whole party is still around. It would be awesome to get a real input from someone who lives in Mexico (preferably a normal person and not a summer beach home/mansion owner who pretends to live like normal people do), but honestly don't know how likely they are to lurk here on Lemmy....surely there is at least one among us?
My skepticism stems mostly from the "popularity" of former president, supposedly reaching some 80%? Sounds pretty good if it's genuinely true, but it's eerily approaching fabled 90-100% authoritarian levels.
Mexican here.
As you say, Mexico is a bit divisive about her, many calling her just a mere puppet of current president López Obrador and worrying about her not doing that much when she was state governor.
And many of her claims about feminism, ecologism, pro-Palestina positioning, are a bit weird, in respect of her former position and the little things she did in regard those.
What worries me personally rn is that legislative power will also be at her mercy. If she wants to do any change to Constitution (as Lopez Obrador already had tried many times), little to nothing will be able to stop her. For better or for worse.
She is a puppet of the current president, she was apponted by himself
That said, the opposition was also a woman but she was an unknown and 3 parties with different views allied to launch her as candidate
The party is projected to have qualified majority of the Congress and maybe senate so they'll be able to do a bunch of stuff so that may be worrying
They have done a lot of good stuff but also they are full of corruption like cancelling a great airport that still needs to be paid and building a shitty one very far away that no one wants to use and that interferes with the operation of the other airport so it doesn't really help with congestion
Sheinbaum is a climate scientist so I'm curious about who she'll appoint to the energy commission because the current government is all-in on carbon
She was selected and placed there as a mere puppet of current president amlo. México is indeed a narco governement but people who don't actuallly experience it first hand living it every day think that this facade is true. She was married to a guy who was investigated for embezzlent but got off the hook because of political contacts. Her father was a chemist who owned a solvent factory (he has passed away and she inherited the business) with very sketchy practices regarding toxic waste management. Factory is still hers and it still operating under the same principles.
Can you explain more of the background? Ignore the downvotes
Can we also elect a smartypants nonretiree ? Is that even an option ?
I wish hera long, happy, productive career, really
Oh is this why Biden is suddenly cracking down on immigration and wanting to build the wall too? I had assumed it was just blatant appeals to the right.
Suddenly? Biden has barely changed the policies from the end of trumps administration. That's why the Republicans bitching about the open border are such clowns
Well can't have all the wage slaves escaping to Mexico
Viva Mexico!
I mean, you couldn't source a link to a tweet yourself and had to share a reddit post on reddit's competing platform?
x is not open to non x users! So it is a no no
Plus using the competing platform bandwith is the better form of warfare anyway
Those are pretty good points. Still, you had to participate in Reddit in order to find that story.
The point is that news organizations, reporters, etc. need to start using fediverse platforms so we're not stuck still using Xitter and Reddit. Moreover, a source from a reputable news outlet would be preferred over social media.
She sounds like a badass. Go Claudia Go! 🎉
Super badass considering her opposition got assassinated.
Mexico elects
Not yet... voting isn't over until June 8
What? We voted yesterday...
i tought i heard somewhere about her being a fascist? what are her proposals for mexico, what you guys like about her?
i tought i heard somewhere about her being a fascist?
Without any background or context or evidence on that accusation, I am hesitant to accept "I thought I heard somewhere" .
Actual fascists and nazis have been projecting that accusation onto their opponents for a while now.
She'll be dead in 6 months probably
If she made deals with the cartels to be alive this long I doubt it
Clocks ticking
Don't need to point out the fact she's Jewish. Nobody cares. Just do a good job.
You. You are the reason they need to point it out.
Just move on. You think no one cares, but I care infinitely less about your comment on it than I do learning the background of an elected official, especially given the situation in Gaza.
As an American jew, I care as well
This smells like how Obama 'got rid of racism' in US. I wonder how the women deaths in Mexico are gonna lower in the followihg years...
RIP
