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President Biden congratulates Claudia Sheinbaum on her historic presidential victory in Mexico, highlighting collaboration and shared values between the US...

The 61-year-old beat Xóchitl Gálvez by almost 30 per cent

Mexico's election results are a strong argument that waiting for progress to just happen doesn't work.

Mexico has reached a political milestone. According to a quick count by the country’s electoral commission, Mexican voters have just elected their first female president. In a society that has long treated its women unfavourably, it is a seismic shift.

Thousands of singing, flag-waving people packed a downtown square to celebrate Claudia Sheinbaum's ground-breaking victory as Mexico's first woman president.

On top of security, immigration and the green transition, Mexico's President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum is facing a host of economic challenges. In this year's budget, Mexico's public deficit stands at 5.9 percent, the largest in decades. Plus, as she seeks to cut spending, Sheinbaum will have to decide what to do…

Leftwing climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City triumphs with a landslide, taking between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote. Plus, Hunter Biden trial to start

Her victory comes more than 70 years after women in Mexico were first given the vote, but the election was marred by violence

The president of the National Electoral Institute on Sunday said Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, saw an irreversible lead between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote.