Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum has said she will press charges against a man who groped her during a public appearance.

Mobile phone footage of the incident on Tuesday shows Sheinbaum speaking to a group of supporters on a street near the National Palace in Mexico City. A man approaches her from behind and attempts to kiss her on the neck and place his hands on her body.

“My view is, if I don’t file a complaint, what will happen to other Mexican women? If they do this to the president, what will happen to all women in our country?” Sheinbaum said at a news conference on Wednesday.

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    You know it was staged, right? Everyone knows it’s a distraction from this. It isn’t the first time she does something to distract from the current events…

    I know I’m going to get downvoted for this but it’s infuriating to live in México and you can’t criticize our government because all of you love that an empowered woman is in control… Most of México is a mess right now, cartels are in control, just last weekend I had a trip to my mother’s inherited grandmas house and in a small town and after a 6 hour trip we just went back because they control the town.

    My mom said she rather lose her childhood home than our lives…

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      Reminds me of Benazir Bhutto as Prime Minister in Pakistan.

      Her PPP party bombed Imran Khan’s cancer hospital a day after he announced his own PTI party.

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      What are you talking about?? You clearly don’t live in Mexico and just hear US propaganda/ Telemundo/ tv azteca which is the same.

      1. This wasn’t staged. Sadly there are men like this in Mexico
      2. carlos M. tragedy is begin blow out proportion by the media to decrease approval and have the elite funded parties rise again or use it as an excuse so the use can US can invade Mexico.

      This shit happened way more in previous governments and never heard about it.

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      The late mayor also told a group of women in his city that, if their children were in the crime, “do not squeal if they are killed by the government in a confrontation.”

      Imagine stanning for Milei like figures. Rest in piss mayor.

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        You mean besides the news articles I linked? The ones with photos?.. No I don’t.

        Edit: and because it’s usual for presidents to walk the streets without bodyguard… And more after one politician just got killed…

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          Se poco y nada de la politica mexicana, pero me acuerdo de alguna vez haber chateado con un mexicano que me dijo algo en las lineas de “te das cuenta de qué partido es el que está con los narcos, porque es el que gana las elecciones”.

          No se que tan real es o no eso, pero si es así, te entenderia que la presidente ande sin guardia.

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            Para mí todos son iguales, solo que tal vez ahora me afecta más directamente con mi jefecita adorada en este momento. No les creo a ninguno.

            For English speakers: to me all political parties are the same, maybe just this time it affects more directly with my grandma’s house. I don’t trust them

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      Are the federales lacking resources or intent? That assassination was clearly a message, I admittedly don’t know a lot about Mexican politics but is it possible to defeat the cartels or is it a competition of monopoly?

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        Morena, her political party, is very friendly to the drug cartels, AMLO (our last president) went to greet Chapo’s mom for example. He’s the one that created morena.

        His ideology was “let them work and they won’t mess with you” .

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          Idk why the quotations since this was never said.

          Yes cartels (which are funded by the US) do have a big influence in Mexico, but no MORENA isn’t friendly to the drug cartel.

          They understand that going into blood battles against them doesn’t improve it. ( which happened in previous governments) Instead they are targeting the root cause like:

          1. taking 11 million Mexicans out of poverty,
          2. increased salaries
          3. education grants
          4. infrastructure, etc.

          their actual slogan is: “abrazos no balazos” which means hugs instead of bullets.

          They understand that most don’t joins cartels out of fun, but need.

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            1 their numbers… Not the reality

            2 yes they are working on the minimum wage, but a what’s the point if inflation is sky high 30 eggs (la cartera, para que entiendas que soy mexa) it’s $100 pesos?

            3 education grants to teenagers that will vote next election? Are you kidding me? They are buying votes…

            4 infrastructure? Ask Samsung what they think? Or how about when he cancelled NAICM because they were corrupt without proof and they made vs El chAIFA that gets flooded?

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            I’m going to reply in Spanish since you think I’m not Mexican, sorry for whoever can’t understand.

            Y cuando soltó al Chapito? Cada año hacen su Badiraguato fest porque lo soltaron? A poco muy pro mujer pero ahí tienes al Salgado mascerdonio gobernando a través de su hija? No manches, chairo