Claudia Sheinbaum is President of Mexico
The second stage of the fourth transformation begins
On October 1, 2024, Claudia Sheinbaum was sworn in as President of the Mexican United States, becoming the first woman president in the history of the country. But more important than her sex in and of itself is the fact that she pertains to a generation of Mexican women of the Left who have arrived to positions of influence in various institutions of Mexican society. I refer here not to the toxic woke Left of the USA, but to a contemporary manifestation of the Latin American Left, which has arrived to be a great force in the region in the twenty-first century. It is a Left that sees the active role of the state in guiding cooperation with big corporations and private companies in expanding the economic productivity of the nation, using the benefits to defend and promote the interests and the fundamental needs of the people. It is a Left that understands the need fo…