Mexico's likely next president would be its first leader with a Jewish background and first female elected
Mexico's likely next president would be its first leader with a Jewish background and first female elected
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.
While she is of Jewish ancestry, she is not religiously observant.
and then
While welcoming the dialogue with Sheinbaum, members of the Jewish community do not consider her to be part of their ranks, in part because Sheinbaum herself has rejected any such connection. “Claudia has actively tried to say: ‘This is not me,” Schlosser said. “It must be respected when a person does not want to be identified in one way or another.”
... and more of that.
Seems like this article is more preoccupied with her religion, which she clearly states is not a big part of who she is, rather than her policies, which I'd be more interested in hearing about.
TL;DR: Your usual sensationalized headline.
That article is under the religion category and the authors bio states:
Hernández is a reporter on the AP’s global religion team. She is based in Mexico City and covers Latin America.
So yeah, everything she posts is about religion.
Seems pretty disrespectful to the candidate to focus on it when she’s not identifying with it.
Was about to say how disrespectful this article is to her, but wow that reporter especially should have known better.
FWIW, from a Jew- If you say you're not Jewish, you're not Jewish.
I don't care if your name is Shlomo Moishe Cohen. If you tell me you're not Jewish, I accept that.
And yet there wasn't anything about how she was dressed.
Is she going to do anything about the gangbangers running the country?
Being reported for the potentially racially loaded term "gangbangers", but the fact of the matter is the cartels are allowed to act more or less with impunity.
"Cartel influence over Mexican government officials exists at all levels, and their influence does not stop at the United States-Mexico border. In Mexico, these cartels act with impunity against politicians, government officials, police, and journalists."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/15/world/mexico-cartel-violence-romo-intl/index.html
"Gangbangers" is an indelicate term, but talking about the cartels? Not necessarily incorrect.
we'll see - Mexico is notoriously difficult to govern
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Similarly, Jewish publicist Carlos Alazraki said in an interview that Sheinbaum was a “phony” for wearing a skirt with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe with the sole purpose of pleasing the Catholic electorate.
Since the official campaigns kicked off in March, Sheinbaum and Gálvez have been questioned and second-guessed in a country where sexist prejudices still debate whether a woman is prepared to rule the second largest economy in Latin America.
Religion’s role in the current elections was apparent when thousands of people supported the presidential aspirations of Eduardo Verástegui, a right-wing activist and film producer who — although his campaign faltered — echoed the voices of conservatives rejecting abortion and LGBTQ+ rights.
But Catholic leaders, during nationwide forums that the church held in 2023, have echoed the fears spread among thousands of average citizens who shared how violence broke their lives.
Under López Obrador’s “hugs, not bullets” policy, the government has avoided direct confrontation with the cartels, allowing them to essentially take control of a dozen or more mid-sized cities.
And though addressing violence is unavoidable, Capdevielle said, the Catholic Church’s actions during the campaign could also be seen as an attempt to try to recover part of the public standing it lost during López Obrador’s six-year term.
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I don't care about her gender or background so much as she continues the direction AMLO took the country.
She's basically AMLO's puppet.
why would you want that? amlo was trash who allowed gangs to flourish
He's done more to better their economy than any past presidents. Less of a US vessel state.
You can about that because.... You think it's a good thing? Because that's the takeaway from your post