During Monday's morning press conference, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) highlighted the importance of the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the first female president of Mexico.
"Yesterday I already congratulated her. I am very happy because you can imagine what it means to hand over the presidency to a woman after 200 years of republican life in which only men governed Mexico since 1824," he said.
The reactions from the Western media so far are split between hoping she will be less "populist" and more "pragmatic" (by which they mean more of a malleable technocrat who will bend to the bourgeoisie and to US diktat) than AMLO on the one hand, and trying to smear her by association with him on the other, whom they despise and call all sorts of names and try to portray as anti-democratic and pro-crime compared to previous right wing governments. As usual they try to pin all sorts of economic woes on the left. And of course they are already demonizing her for her party associating with other left wing governments like Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
yea its interesting that western media lumps in AMLO & Modi, Erdogan, Orban into one 'populist' blob.
to liberals populism = government i don’t like
The Western media is so fucking despicable and predictable as always. It really is the most effective propaganda apparatus on this planet, and nothing even comes close.