Why the hell can’t we have candidates this awesome on the ballot here in the US?! 😿
You don’t like deciding which person who will be the oldest president we’ve ever had for president is interesting?
Yeah, it’s a pretty frustrating time to be leaning left. And given the chaos Trump would unleash, it’s not like there is any choice at all about whether or not to vote for Biden… 😿
bc mexico is actually democratic with significant proportional representation and not the weird arse shit merica calls “democracy”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Mexico#Current_Elected_Federal_Offices
Yeah 37 assassinated candidate runner ups being murdered speaks volumes about that
Yeah, kinda wondering why the cartels want her in office. Maybe she’s less good than she appears.
Also wondering why anyone would want to lead Mexico given that angering the cartels will get you cartel’d…
I’ll tell you what I told the previous commenter: They were not all runner-ups, that’s misinformation. The assassinations were not presidential candidates. They were local politicians, running for mayoral or council seats.
Which is also disgusting, of course, but no, the cartels did not kill off all her competition to get her into office.
Maybe they don’t want her in the office, maybe they didn’t want the other guys they offed
Hmm… so it’s not the electoral system that needs reform… Murcia just needs to murder more candidates?!
They were not all runner-ups, you’re falling for misinformation bullshit (and stop upvoting misinformation, people!). The assassinations were not presidential candidates. They were local politicians, running for mayoral or council seats.
Which is absolutely fucking horrifying in and of itself, don’t get me wrong, but what you’re saying is just not true.
You have Bernie Sanders, AOC
Yes, and I voted for Bernie when he ran and I would absolutely vote for AOC if/when she does run. Just… the choices in this election cycle are wanna-be, half-demented dictator-for-life vs a “moderate” Democrat who, while he’s gotten a surprising amount done, isn’t exactly renowned for pushing the corporations hard on climate change.
Honestly, the stuff he’s gotten done over his career has been life changing for me. I hate that I have to give him credit for legalizing cannabis, but here we are.
Yeah but they’re basically relegated to side show characters by their party.
Sheinbaum is better than those two, but not as much as you think. Her mayorship and her party have good relations with Israel, cooperated with the US in violence against migrants, and silenced protestors.
Fair point
Meanwhile in America:
To be clear, 37 other candidates were murdered. Leaving this final one the pick of the cartels as the survivor.
Actually, you’re not being clear, at all. The article you linked, yourself, notes that the 37 murdered political candidates were local government candidates murdered between September and May, not national candidates. Far cry from your insinuation that 37 of Claudia Sheinbaum’s political opponents were murdered so she could win by the hands of the cartels.
RIP
She sounds promising, good luck to Mexicans for the next electoral period.
Nice! Congratulations Mexico! 🇲🇽 🍾🥂
Is this the first Nobel laureate to run a country? How bloody amazing. Well done Mexico!
Barak Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate nine months after his inauguration. Subsequently, he used a drone to murder an American citizen, among a litany of other atrocities.
He got that prize mainly for not being George W. Bush if I remember 2009 correctly.
Best thing Obama did was pulling out of Iraq, finally leaving an illegal war, so hats off for that. But all his talk about envisioning a world free of nuclear weapons and then not even attempting disarmament of the US ones kinda seems weak.
I think his attempts to reestablish new diplomacy with Cuba and Iran were good.
Then Trump fucked it all up and Biden doesn’t seem to give a shit about going back.
Kudos to Obama for actually following through, but the withdrawal from Iraq had a deadline set by the U.S. Status of Forces Agreement signed by Bush, per the request of the Iraqi government.
Meanwhile Lê Đức Thọ refused the prize as it was shared with FUCKING KISSINGER.
Wasn’t Carter a Nobel recipient too?
Yes, but that was in 2002, long after his term in office.
We actually bombed the moon on the day of the Nobel Prize announcement!
Seriously though, it was a middle finger to Bush more than anything.
Nobel Laureate is a bit of an overstatement but she was part of an organization that won the Nobel Prize, similar to how Amnesty International has won it a few times:
She was a contributing author to the 2007 IPCC report, maybe not a huge deal (there were 100+ authors) but it is reasonably relevant. Here is a chapter that she contributed to (I don’t know if there is more than one) and her earlier work is cited.
Lots of Peace winners, but Winston Churchill had one in literature:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_and_government_Nobel_laureates#In_office
Churchill was a master of historical non-fiction. Not “history books,” per se, but basically books about historical topics pertaining to England that interested him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_the_English-Speaking_Peoples. They were very popular during his day.
Oh yes, I’d forgotten about Winnie. I have a lot more respect for science and literature prizes than the peace prize though. Harder work, I reckon.
She’s the same party as the incumbent and the results were a blow out. She got a majority in a three man race, those guys didn’t stand a chance.
How much does the parliament count among the cartells?
This is amazing for the world. Good job Mexico.
I mean, you couldn’t source a link to a tweet yourself and had to share a reddit post on reddit’s competing platform?
x is not open to non x users! So it is a no no
Plus using the competing platform bandwith is the better form of warfare anyway
Those are pretty good points. Still, you had to participate in Reddit in order to find that story.
The point is that news organizations, reporters, etc. need to start using fediverse platforms so we’re not stuck still using Xitter and Reddit. Moreover, a source from a reputable news outlet would be preferred over social media.
I post around 5-10 link per day to feed the fediverse, Some of them come from reddit. Actually , despite all the good intention the fediverse is a dead place compared to reddit. But dont worry, when I read something worthwhile here, I dont post it on reddit, I have no account there.
I see plenty of content in my feed on lemmy. I don’t think it’s dead.
Now the GOP is really hating Mexico.
She’ll be dead in 6 months probably
If she made deals with the cartels to be alive this long I doubt it
Well I hope she survives. One thing going for her is that Claudia is pretty much like Karen here in the US. If you had a Claudia at your school, she was probably either really fat and annoying or had the biggest chest possible and was the teacher’s pet so she could go smoke with her boyfriend during recess.
Calm down Kevin
Generalizations, ableism, sexism all in one comment. Well done 👍
Efficiency, efficiency, efficiency
Edit: don’t forget the fatphobia!
Gracias 🙏😁. The juro que me Dio trabajo. Pero me salio! Osea, suena chingon.
What’s the ableism in the comment? Sincere question because I thought I knew what it was but can’t spot any here so I must be ignorant.
It doesn’t have to mean anything! It gets the people going
No. I’m ignorant. I thought body-shaming (fat-shaming) was ableist. I researched it and found I was wrong. You are correct.
But que es ableismo? Sorry but Mexican Wikipedia requires payment.
Guessing she’s still around because the cartels want her around. Not sure how good this is.
She was selected and placed there as a mere puppet of current president amlo. México is indeed a narco governement but people who don’t actuallly experience it first hand living it every day think that this facade is true. She was married to a guy who was investigated for embezzlent but got off the hook because of political contacts. Her father was a chemist who owned a solvent factory (he has passed away and she inherited the business) with very sketchy practices regarding toxic waste management. Factory is still hers and it still operating under the same principles.
Probably the same reason the whole party is still around. It would be awesome to get a real input from someone who lives in Mexico (preferably a normal person and not a summer beach home/mansion owner who pretends to live like normal people do), but honestly don’t know how likely they are to lurk here on Lemmy…surely there is at least one among us?
My skepticism stems mostly from the “popularity” of former president, supposedly reaching some 80%? Sounds pretty good if it’s genuinely true, but it’s eerily approaching fabled 90-100% authoritarian levels.
Mexican here.
As you say, Mexico is a bit divisive about her, many calling her just a mere puppet of current president López Obrador and worrying about her not doing that much when she was state governor.
And many of her claims about feminism, ecologism, pro-Palestina positioning, are a bit weird, in respect of her former position and the little things she did in regard those.
What worries me personally rn is that legislative power will also be at her mercy. If she wants to do any change to Constitution (as Lopez Obrador already had tried many times), little to nothing will be able to stop her. For better or for worse.
What’s that last part about she changing the constitution? How could no one be able to stop her?
Mexico, just as USA, has three branches in government. Two of them are elected by popular vote (President and Congress) and the other one by internal vote (Supreme Court).
In the past, Lopez Obrador tried to change Constitution via reforms on various subjects. A couple of them were so controversial that divided the Congress in two: those of his party vs. those of other parties. The latter won just for a bit for the super-majority requirement for that type of reform.
Aside from that, the Supreme Court also didn’t support some of those reforms. So, just as any authoritarian figure would do against their opposition, Lopez Obrador intended to change how the Supreme Court elects its magisters and judges, turning it into another popular vote branch (which he could control just as with Congress).
Back to the present, Sheinbaum will have that super-majority in Congress that Lopez Obrador didn’t. That could allow her even reforms to the Supreme Court, effectively disappearing any opposition to whatever reform they wanted to pass.
So… let’s just hope she has good intentions.
Oh My good lord you guys are screwed
Thanks, appreciate it
She is a puppet of the current president, she was apponted by himself
That said, the opposition was also a woman but she was an unknown and 3 parties with different views allied to launch her as candidate
The party is projected to have qualified majority of the Congress and maybe senate so they’ll be able to do a bunch of stuff so that may be worrying
They have done a lot of good stuff but also they are full of corruption like cancelling a great airport that still needs to be paid and building a shitty one very far away that no one wants to use and that interferes with the operation of the other airport so it doesn’t really help with congestion
Sheinbaum is a climate scientist so I’m curious about who she’ll appoint to the energy commission because the current government is all-in on carbon
First question how is she a puppet. Second question, and the Congress, what might be worrying about it?
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The president was thoroughly involved in the process of selecting the party’s candidate. Claudia’s campaign was that she’ll continue with AMLO’s plan
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With super majority they can make changes to the Constitution
That’s never good. It’s basically waiting to be a monarchy in all but name. Look no further than Venezuela and North Korea
Same thing with Biden lol. Obama interfered hard to get him elected during the primary. He’s not great, but he’s been surprisingly better than Trump (in every way but the genocide thing and immigration) so hopefully she’s better than expected, too!
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My first thoughts,
U.S.A.: Can we have that president?
U.S. Govt.: No, you have president at home
Biden
But seriously this is awesome to see, It’s nice to see some uplifting news.
