{"id":64983,"date":"2024-06-03T16:39:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T16:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/mexico-joins-list-of-latin-american-nations-that-have-elected-female-presidents\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T16:39:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T16:39:08","slug":"mexico-joins-list-of-latin-american-nations-that-have-elected-female-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/mexico-joins-list-of-latin-american-nations-that-have-elected-female-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Joins List of Latin American Nations That Have Elected Female Presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/03\/multimedia\/03LATAM-WOMEN-PRESIDENT-gfqh\/03LATAM-WOMEN-PRESIDENT-gfqh-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Mexico Joins List of Latin American Nations That Have Elected Female Presidents\" title=\"Mexico Joins List of Latin American Nations That Have Elected Female Presidents\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The presidential election in the United States this year is, yet again, a contest between two men. But in Latin America, as Mexico\u2019s milestone election showed over the weekend, electing a woman as president has become remarkably routine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Claudia Sheinbaum, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/02\/world\/americas\/mexico-election.html\" title=\"\">who won Mexico\u2019s election in a landslide<\/a> against another female candidate, X\u00f3chitl G\u00e1lvez, joins at least a dozen other women who have served as presidents of Latin American countries since the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This growing list includes past leaders of two of Latin America\u2019s largest countries, Dilma Rousseff of Brazil and Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner of Argentina, and those in smaller nations like Violeta Chamorro of Nicaragua and Xiomara Castro, the current president of Honduras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The ascension of women to such heights spotlights how some democracies in Latin America that emerged from the ashes of authoritarian rule have proven exceptionally open to tearing down barriers to political representation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jennifer Piscopo, a professor of gender and politics at Royal Holloway, a college at the University of London, said that women who had become president in Latin America generally followed a pattern of being nominated by incumbent parties already enjoying high levels of voter support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Citing the examples of Ms. Rousseff in Brazil, Michele Bachelet in Chile and Laura Chinchilla in Costa Rica, Ms. Piscopo said such parties \u201cenjoy the best of both worlds,\u201d first by reaping electoral benefits from their strong reputation going into an election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And second, \u201cthey can also use women to signal novelty or change to the electorate,\u201d Ms. Piscopo said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Mexico, the governing party, Morena, has steadily expanded its power around the country in recent years while enshrining gender parity in politics as a pillar of its ambitions to bring change to the world\u2019s largest Spanish-speaking country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While women in Mexico didn\u2019t gain the right to vote until 1953, the country now stands apart from others in the region with an assortment of policies and legislation aimed specifically at opening the way for women in politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The efforts picked up steam after a landmark election in 2000 ended decades of authoritarian rule. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/01\/world\/americas\/mexico-election-women-sheinbaum-galvez.html\" title=\"\">Quotas allowed more women to run for office<\/a>, then a 2019 constitutional amendment, supported by a far-reaching coalition of female activists, scholars and politicians, set parity goals in legislative, judicial and executive branches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just a few years later, Mexico not only has a female president-elect but also women at the helm of both houses of Congress, where women held half the legislative seats going into this election. Women also serve as chief justice of the Supreme Court and governor of the Central Bank.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Efforts to achieve equality reverberated through local and state elections. In a reflection of the presidential race, contests for governor in Guanajuato and Morelos states also saw two women vying to win.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The entry of more women into politics is reflected in landmark policy shifts, such as Mexico\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/06\/world\/americas\/mexico-abortion-decriminalize-supreme-court.html\" title=\"\">decriminalization<\/a> of abortion nationwide in 2023. Mexico joined countries such as , <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/30\/world\/americas\/argentina-legalizes-abortion.html\" title=\"\">Argentina<\/a>, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/22\/world\/americas\/colombia-abortion.html\" title=\"\">Colombia<\/a>, Guyana and Uruguay that have moved to expand abortion rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, Latin America\u2019s recent history also holds cautionary tales about how easily women can fall from rarefied positions of power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Brazil, for instance, a similar situation to this year\u2019s election in Mexico, where Ms. Sheinbaum was the prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of broadly popular male president, played out in 2010 when Ms. Rousseff, the former chief of staff to Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, won the presidential election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Rousseff went on to win re-election in 2014. But in the wake of huge corruption scandals involving her leftist party and economic weakening, she then faced an open revolt among lawmakers. The backlash resulted in her impeachment on charges of manipulating the budget to conceal economic problems and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/01\/world\/americas\/brazil-dilma-rousseff-impeached-removed-president.html\" title=\"\">her removal from office in 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The ouster paved the way for the rise to the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right figure who made verbal <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/worldcrunch.com\/culture-society\/bolsonaro-women-misogyny\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">attacks<\/a> on women a staple of his rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After her impeachment, Ms. Rousseff ran for a Senate seat in 2018 and lost. After Mr. Lula returned to the presidency in 2023, she also re-emerged, as chair of a development bank founded by Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt is not just about holding the position,\u201d said M\u00f3nica Tapia, founder of A\u00fana, a Mexican incubator of political leadership for women, \u201cIt\u2019s also about having the power and autonomy to control the agenda and the legacy women want to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Emiliano Rodr\u00edguez Mega<!-- --> contributed reporting from Mexico City.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/03\/world\/americas\/mexico-women-president-latin-america.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presidential election in the United States this year is, yet again, a contest between two men. But in Latin America, as Mexico\u2019s milestone election showed over the weekend, electing a woman as president has become remarkably routine. 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