Mexico

Guardian - Claudia Sheinbaum has won a landslide victory to become Mexico’s first female president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose popularity among the poor helped drive her triumph. Sheinbaum, a leftwing climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won the presidency with between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, according to a rapid sample count by Mexico’s electoral authority  Claudia Sheinbaum has won a landslide victory to become Mexico’s first female president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose popularity among the poor helped drive her triumph. Sheinbaum, a leftwing climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won the presidency with between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, according to a rapid sample count by Mexico’s electoral authority.

Washington Post - Sheinbaum’s victory caps a decades-long campaign for gender parity in Mexico, where women didn’t win the right to vote for president until 1953.

On Up First, NPR's Eyder Peralta describes women crying, dancing and hugging the Mexican flag while carrying Sheinbaum dolls as they celebrated the achievement: "It is being celebrated as a woman breaking the highest of glass ceilings." He spoke with 69-year-old Rosa Maria Garcia, who said she felt that a female president was a dream because Mexico's power structures had been in place too long, and Mexicans would never break free of them. She said knowing a fellow woman would be in charge of the Mexican people made her feel "complete."