Mexico's incoming president announces first Cabinet picks: academics and former public servants

[Judi Lynn]

Updated 7:09 PM CDT, June 20, 2024

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s incoming President Claudia Sheinbaum began naming her Cabinet Thursday, presenting an even gender distribution, as well as a heavy presence from academia and her prior administration as Mexico City’s mayor.

Sheinbaum, herself a climate scientist and former academic, appointed former Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard as her administration’s economy secretary. Ebrard stepped down from that post in 2023 to run against Sheinbaum for their party’s nomination.

Sheinbaum romped to victory in the June 2 election.

Ebrard, 63, was the official President Andrés Manuel López Obrador placed in charge of obtaining foreign-made vaccines for Mexico during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Bright people with very good minds, not standard politicians. Tremendous! Probably much less jaded and cynical, and sneaky!

Wishing them and their country the very best. They have a formidable job ahead.

[bahboo]

1. best of luck, Mexico....

[Cheezoholic]

2. This new United Mexican States Administration is so very very importatant to the US

Mexico has been teetering between being a failed corrupt state and a potential shining star among the worlds democracies nearly since it's independence. With a capitalistic bully to it's north disrespecting the country and it's people and doing nothing but profiteering from it in a way that would make a Batista proud and dealing with governments to it's south fraught with chaos sewn from foreign clandestine initiated destabilization and geographically cursed drug trade routes to fill the northern rich bullies noses and the powerful cartels that come with them, it's a fucking miracle there's still a democracy there to be salvaged.

During TSF's administration China made aggressive in roads economically into Mexico due to a once again hostile administration to the North. President Biden has been fighting an uphill battle to re-establish a confident and mutually productive relationship with our 2nd largest trading partner in the world. With this new administration to the south and and another 4 years of our current administration the potential is there to lay the groundwork for a trifecta of strong progressive democracies in North America. I'm not talking NAFTA BS, I'm talking 3 countries with like minded freedom loving people and borders that could slowly be dissolving to lines on a map the way the EU has united themselves.

Flushing out the corruption in the Mexican government didn't start with this election but hopefully this administration can go a long way to finishing the job. We can do our part by re-electing President Biden. This is an administration that Joe Biden can work with and maybe confidently invest in economically knowing the investments will go to strengthen their democracy and truly benefiting their people instead of getting sidetracked into the hands of cartels and greedy capitalists both Mexican and American. If TSF gets his hands on the wheel again he will do everything he can to destroy these leftist commies.

The Mexican people have voted to for themselves this time and I hope to hell it works.

[malaise]

3. Interesting

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