Claudia Sheinbaum has swept to victory in Mexico’s presidential election, making history as the first woman to hold the office. As the hand-picked successor of leftist president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the former mayor of Mexico City was always favorite to win. The president-elect faces some big challenges, including migration, relations with the United States, and the country’s rampant drugs-related violence.
For more on this, we talk to Jason Marczak. He is senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center and joins us from Washington DC.
We talk to Arturo Sarukhan, a former Mexican ambassador to the United States and now president of the consulting group Sarukhan & Associates.
And we talk to Gema Kloppe-Santamaría. She is an Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs, at George Washington University.
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