By The Opinion
This Wednesday, Time magazine highlighted the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, as one of the 100 most influential people of the yeara list in which she is the only Latin American leader and shares the ‘Leaders’ category with her American counterpart, Donald Trump.
The publication highlights that Sheinbaum is “one of the most popular leaders in the region”and has offered “a lesson in diplomacy” after beginning his first year in office, since October 2024, with “pressure from all sides,” including Trump’s “threats” to impose tariffs on Mexico and bomb Mexican territory.
Her profile, written by journalist Ioan Grillo, also highlights that the Mexican leader has faced the “violent gangsters” who traffic fentanyl and migrants on the border, in addition to facing critics in Mexico who argued that she would be “overshadowed” by her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“She hit the cartels hard, raided laboratories, transferred her bosses to US custody and took down the kingpin ‘El Mencho’helping to avoid more aggressive US intervention. “She spoke calmly in defense of Mexican sovereignty while avoiding confrontation,” Grillo said.
These “victories,” the magazine argued, “have made her one of the most popular leaders in the region,” and a “success story for mixing populism with pragmatism.”
Even so, The note warns of challenges such as a “slow” Mexican economy, the persistence of crime and the crisis of tens of thousands of missing people.
Sheinbaum shares the category of ‘Leaders’ with Pope Leo XIV and the leaders of the United States; Canada, Designate Carney; China, Xi Jinping; Japan, Sanae Takaichi; Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu; Namibia, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, and Denmark, Mette Frederiksen. EFE
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