Opinion | Is Claudia Sheinbaum anti-trump?

“I am very proud of her”, last week Marta Lamas, professor of anthropology and Mexican feminist leader who has known Sheinbaum for years, told me to Mexico cities. “It is a light in this terrible situation we are facing: Putin, Trump.”

Lamas said he feared a sexist backlash against Sheinbaum, the first female president of Mexico, but six months after his mandate, there is no sign of one. Sheinbaum was elected almost 60 percent of the votes. Today its approval evaluation is greater than 80 %. Last week, Bukele, who likes to call himself “the coolest dictator in the world”, asked Grok, to Elon Musk’s chatbots, the name of the most popular leader on the planet, evidently expecting it would be him. Grok replied: “Sheinbaum”.

For those of us imbued in the policy of American identity, it can be difficult to understand how a woman like Sheinbaum has come to lead the eleventh country in the world. His parents, both of Jewish families who fled from Europe, were scientists who had been active in the left student movement of the 60s. As a child, Sheinbaum was dedicated to the dance dance, a discipline that still comes in her pretty posture and in the numerous videos on social media of her who made folk dances with her components. He did research for his research doctorate. In Energy Engineering at the UC Berkeley and shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the United Nations Intergovernmental Group on Climate Changes.

In short, it is part of the cosmopolitan intelligentsia typically demonized by populist movements. But as I was told again and still in Mexico, his rarefied background meant little in light of his close relationship with López Obrador, who had worked next to it since he was mayor of Mexico City 25 years ago and whose economic populism gained him the lasting devotion of many citizens scarcely.

As president, López Obrador has more than doubled the minimum salary and anchored it to inflation to ensure that the workers do not remain behind. He has implemented large social programs, including salaries for young people who make professional training and, above all, universal money transfers for the elderly. Second For the National Mexico Council for the evaluation of social development policy, five million Mexicans have escaped poverty during the first four years of its presidency. (Extreme poverty, however, has increased by almost half a million.)