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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-08T19:28:22.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Claudia Sheinbaum’s list of accolades is long: She has a Ph.D in energy engineering, participated in a United Nations panel of climate scientists awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and governed the capital (Mexico City), one of the largest cities in the hemisphere.\n\nOn Sunday, she added another achievement to her résumé: becoming the first woman elected president of Mexico.\n\nMs. Sheinbaum, 61, captured at least 58 percent of the vote in a landmark election on Sunday that featured two women competing for the nation’s highest office — a groundbreaking contest in a country long known for a culture of machismo and rampant violence against women.\n\nClaudia Sheinbaum was projected to win the presidential race in a landslide victory, which was a vote of confidence to continue the leftist policies of her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López\n\n**New York Times piece on this, pierces the paywall for next 14 days, i.e. until June 17, 2024.**...\n\nRead more",
  "title": "Mexico elects 1st female president"
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