Mexico’s First Female President; a Georgia Cancer Patient’s Medicaid Struggle: A Tale of Two Professors, Lawyers, and Trade Unionists
Atlanta Philharmonic artistic director Amy Wilson wanted to be a conductor since middle school. Four years ago, doctors found a cancerous tumor in her brain, threatening her life and dream. She had to choose between having surgery or going through cancer treatment and deciding what to pay for later. She chose surgery. Her recovery has been difficult because she was denied Medicaid, a state-federal program that provides healthcare to low-income people. Wilson was told she makes $30 more than Georgia’s limit.
Narendra Modi is expected to become the new Prime Minister of India tomorrow. The limits of democracy are shown in the case of professors, lawyers, and trade unionists jailed over an alleged plot to assassinate Modi. The case involves the death of an 83-year-old priest, a computer hacking trail that leads back to local police and the Indian government’s use of the controversial Pegasus spyware.
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Sheinbaum, President Biden and the Up First Podcast: A First Look at the Misogynistic and Gender-Based Violence
President Biden surprised Israeli leaders and set off a political firestorm inside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet Friday when he publicly endorsed a cease-fire proposal that Israel had offered privately. The plan would unfold in three phases. A six-week phase calls for a full and complete cease-fire and the release of a number of hostages and Palestinian prisoners. The final release of hostages and an end to hostilities would follow. The final phase would focus on reconstruction efforts in Gaza.
Jury selection begins today in a federal court in Delaware for Hunter Biden‘s criminal trial on gun charges. Biden is accused of making false statements when buying a gun and of being in possession of a firearm by a drug user. It’s the first of two trials the president’s son faces this year as his father runs for reelection.
Claudia Sheinbaum, a former mayor of Mexico City, was overwhelmingly elected the country’s first female president yesterday. It’s a historic milestone in a country with misogynistic and gender-based violence.
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While the historic nature of Sheinbaum’s victory is considered a reflection of gender equality, many Mexicans see it more as a referendum against the last six years of AMLO, which they consider to have been bad.
Outgoing President Lpez Obrador has been widely seen as her political mentor.
Sheinbaum, Lpez Obrador, and her opponent Xchitl Glvez: new projects by a former Mexican environmental minister
The scientist was a member of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared a peace prize with Al Gore. The most powerful office in the country will be held by Sheinbaum, whose grandparents escaped the Holocaust.
He is one of the most divisive figures in Mexican history and he’s also known for his social programs that lifted millions out of poverty but have been denounced as an attack on democratic institutions.
“I don’t have a lot of life left to live, but I will support him to the death,” said Morales, 77, who is retired. There are a list of reasons. New train lines and oil refineries, along with a monthly pension for elderly Mexicans, are just a few of the new projects taken on by Lpez Obrador.
She was Lpez Obrador’s political mentor. She was an environmental minister when he was elected mayor of Mexico City. She has been unwaveringly loyal ever since, even supporting his pro-oil energy agenda despite her environmental background.
While Sheinbaum lacks López Obrador’s charisma and popular appeal, she has a reputation for being analytical, disciplined and exacting. She promises to support Lpez Obrador’s policies and popular social programs, including cash payments to low-income residents and a universal pension benefit for seniors.
There is a vegetable vendor in Mexico City who says thatClaudia is the continuation of theAMLO. After López Obrador’s election in 2018, Bautista Herrera began receiving monthly payments of $660 pesos, roughly $38, to help her support her 11-year-old daughter. With that money, she buys household goods like soap, eggs, sugar and Clorox.
Xchitl Glvez was Sheinbaum’s opponent for the presidency. An Indigenous, pro-business tech entrepreneur who represented several establishment opposition parties, Gálvez could never distance herself from the corruption and disenchantment that voters associated with those parties.
Many who cast their vote for Gálvez were more motivated by her promised break from López Obrador and the electoral power of his Morena party than Gálvez’s campaign promises. They worry about the security policy of Lopez Obrador, which has resulted in record high homicides, as well as his moves to undermine judicial independence in a country that saw one-party rule for 70 years until 2000.
“He’s a dictator, and Sheinbaum is his puppet,” said Almarosa Anaya, standing outside a polling center in Mexico City’s upscale Roma Norte neighborhood with her two adult daughters. She said López Obrador wants to turn Mexico into a communist country, “like Venezuela and Cuba.”
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The anniversary of the killing of Luis Huerta Cabrera in San Nicols Tolentino: A tribute to his beloved family and friends
These elections have also been historic for another grim reason: They have been one of the most violent. In the run up to these elections, more than 30 candidates were assassinated.
Voting went on as usual in the small town of San Nicols Tolentino. But in the church nearby, family and friends gathered for the funeral of Jorge Luis Huerta Cabrera.
She has to tackle the biggest budget deficit since the 1980’s, the growing power of the cartel and a complicated relationship with the U.S.