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October 2, 2024

Claudia Sheinbaum Inaugurated as Mexico's First Female President
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Claudia Sheinbaum was sworn in as Mexico's first female president
Tuesday, pledging her six-year term will be a "time for transformation."
Sheinbaum has vowed to strengthen women's rights in Mexico, which has
one of the highest rates of femicides; to expand access to public
healthcare and education; and other social reforms that have been
bolstered by the ruling Morena party. Sheinbaum received the baton of
power from Indigenous and Afro-Mexican women, who joined Sheinbaum on
stage as she addressed thousands of supporters gathered in Mexico City's
Zócalo Square.

President Claudia Sheinbaum: "I am certain that power is honesty and
humility, that our thinking is Mexican humanism, that our nation and
people are great. And I am certain we are the only option that
represents well-being and progress with justice."



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