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Sheinbaum is 1st Female Mexican President in 200 Years: AMLO (www.telesurenglish.net)

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During Monday's morning press conference, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) highlighted the importance of the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the first female president of Mexico.

"Yesterday I already congratulated her. I am very happy because you can imagine what it means to hand over the presidency to a woman after 200 years of republican life in which only men governed Mexico since 1824," he said.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

not true, in north america she's actually the 5th elected female president, and 8th elected female leader overall! (maybe many USians don't know but North America includes everything above South America, including Central America and the Caribbean)

NA countries that have elected a female president (excluding countries where the presidency is only a figurehead role):

Costa Rica
Haiti
Honduras (incumbent)
Nicaragua
Panama

NA countries that have elected a female PM (excluding countries where the prime ministry is only a figurehead role):

Barbados (incumbent)
Dominica
Jamaica

unelected leaders:

Canada (interim PM)
Haiti (interim president, tried to coup the government)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

First elected president in nafta states jeb (i was going by concacaf zones 🥺)