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Mexico’s First Woman President Inherits a Crisis of Femicide

How do we reconcile these coexisting realities?

November 11, 2024 • by Ever Osorio

This July, two of the three party-backed candidates in the Mexican presidential elections were women. Claudia Sheinbaum, the candidate of the ruling left-wing party, MORENA (an acronym for “Movement for National Regeneration”) won with between 58.3 and 60.7 percent of the vote, the highest percentage in Mexico's democratic history. As ...

Mexico’s First Woman President Inherits a Crisis of Femicide

A view from Mexico on the crisis of the migration system

An original version of this piece was written in Spanish for the Mexican magazine Letras Libres, focusing on Mexico’s response to the issue of family separation in the context of the July 1 presidential election. The separation of fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters at the U.S.-Mexican border, part of the Trump administration’s ...

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Mexico’s First Woman President Inherits a Crisis of Femicide

How do we reconcile these coexisting realities?

Beyond the Separation of Families

A view from Mexico on the crisis of the migration system

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