Mexico election live updates: Voters set to elect first female president
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Mexico set to elect first female president
Polls are open in Mexico, where voters are set to elect the country's first female president. NBC News' Guad Venegas spoke to one woman who says she's excited that gender is no longer a deterrent to holding public office.
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Claudia Sheinbaum elected as Mexico's first female president
Claudia Sheinbaum is projected to win Mexico's presidential election and become the nation's first female president in history. "I will become the first woman president of Mexico," Sheinbaum said at a downtown Mexico City hotel shortly after electoral authorities announced a statistical sample showed she held an irreversible lead, according to The Associated Press. "I don't make it alone. We've all made it, with our heroines who gave us our homeland, with our mothers, our daughters and our...
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Mexico set to elect the first female president in its history
Mexicans voted Sunday in an election set to give the nation its first female president — a groundbreaking development in a country where women could not cast ballots for president until 1954. "Never in my entire life did I imagine that a woman would be president of my country," said Cristina Navarrete Santillán, 76, who voted in the southern Mexico City neighborhood of Tlalpan alongside her two daughters and two granddaughters. "I am glad to be alive to see it." Navarrete backed former Mexico...