Sloan: In Mexico, don’t expect much to change with new President
By Kelly Sloan | Contributing Columnist, Rocky Mountain Voice
You may have missed it, but at the beginning of this month Mexico elected a new President. By which to say they elected an extension of their previous one.
Claudia Sheinbaum, former mayor of Mexico City, won the election in what can only be described as a landslide for the ruling left-wing Morena Party. Sheinbaum happens to be Mexico’s first female President (it’s first Jewish one too, though it seems she likes to keep her Jewishness rather suppressed unless politically convenient.) More importantly, she is a protégé of her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador known somewhat affectionately as “AMLO”. Both are socialists, after a fashion, and it is not expected that President Sheinbaum will stray much from the pol...