Mexico is almost certain to elect its first female president in June — both leading candidates are women.
Given the panoply of issues the new president will face and the limited time available to develop strategies to address them, the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute has prepared a series of recommendations on six of the most salient issues for consideration by the presidential candidates and their ...
Gonzalez has a long record in public service and served as finance director of the Mexico City government during Sheinbaum's tenure as the capital's mayor from 2018-2024. She has no direct energy industry experience. Sheinbaum won a convincing victory in the 2 June presidential ...
Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, Republican former President Donald Trump and five third-party candidates will compete for New Mexico’s five electoral votes, but the most competitive race on the ballot will likely be a U.S.
with women leading the way. The Mexican presidential election only involves one round of voting, and the candidate who obtains a simple majority will win. Multiple polls in May showed that Claudia Hinbaum, the presidential candidate of the ruling party National Renaissance Movement in Mexico, had...
Mexico is no exception: In the last five presidential transitions (that is, the last 30 years), growth has always slowed during the first year of the new government (figure 1). In the three most recent cases (former Presidents Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Enrique Peña Nieto, and Felipe...
It was a good thing Ronald Reagan didn’t win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 1976. It’s also a good thing Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020. It’s strange to say, but both of their losses turned out for the better – for themselves and, so far anyway, for...
Another key factor that has been putting investments on hold is the presidential election that will be held on June 2. Like other parts of the world, Mexico is polarized between two candidates with very different political views. “Everyone is waiting to see what will happen before investing no...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Campaigning in Bolivia for Sunday’s judicial election may be strictly forbidden, but look closer on the streets of the capital La Paz and you’ll find that some candidates have sneakily plastered their faces on packs of corn puffs and others have...