Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo
Mexico
Morena
President of Mexico
government
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo is a Mexican politician, energy and climate change scientist, and academic who has been serving as the 66th president of Mexico since 2024. She is the first woman and the first person with Jewish heritage to hold the office. A member of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), she previously served as Head of Government of Mexico City from 2018 to 2023. In 2025, Forbes ranked Sheinbaum as the fifth most powerful woman in the world.
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Aug 15, 2026
Far Left
She repudiated ICE raids and electric shock gloves, and received Oaxaca's CNTE teachers, who left with threats.
Morena sees her as the defender of migrants and national dignity, but expects concrete outcomes on education conflict and judicial reform.
Aug 13, 2026
Far Left
She announced that Mexico is ready to help Colombia after the 7.4 earthquake, pending the official request from Bogotá.
Morena celebrates her as a principled regional leader who projects solidarity and gives Mexico a stronger voice in foreign policy.
Aug 12, 2026
Far Right
Sheinbaum celebrates the judicial election results and presents Plan México as the answer to tariffs, while facing rising criticism over cartel violence in Sinaloa.
PAN sees her as the face of Morena's concentration of power, with her court sweep and military-first security policy eroding the checks PAN believes are essential.
Aug 10, 2026
Far Right
She is steering the judicial overhaul, the expulsion of Ken Salazar, and Plan Mexico without altering AMLO's core doctrine.
PAN criticizes her for deepening one-party control and for a security policy that has not lowered homicides in states like Sinaloa.
Aug 10, 2026
Lean Right
Sheinbaum is defending the judicial election plan and negotiating with Washington over tariff threats.
PRI criticizes her for replacing judicial merit with open elections while giving a nod to political loyalty.
Aug 10, 2026
Lean Left
She is the president at the center of the avocado certification suspension, fracking study debate and the federal stance on the Sinaloa ammonia plant.
The PRD criticizes her for refusing to ban fracking and for presiding over the security failures in Michoacán that triggered the U.S. avocado suspension.
Aug 9, 2026
Far Left
She led a Pensión Mujeres Bienestar event in Naucalpan and later clarified that no decision has been made on fracking.
Praised by Morena for advancing the social agenda with Pensión Mujeres Bienestar and for refusing to rush a fracking decision, keeping energy sovereignty central.
Aug 8, 2026
Lean Left
Announced a fracking ban in the Tampico-Misantla basin while leaving the door open elsewhere, met the Vatican envoy, and faces the avocado tariff backlash.
PRD sees her environmentalism as rhetorical half-measures and her trade strategy as reactive, not protective of Mexican workers.
Aug 7, 2026
Far Right
She is negotiating with President-elect Trump to avoid the 25 percent tariff threat and defending her Plan Mexico before the markets.
PAN criticizes her for giving in to Trump while maintaining the failed hugs, not bullets security policy that has allowed the Sinaloa conflict.
Aug 7, 2026
Lean Right
The president is campaigning for the judicial election and defending the elimination of autonomous agencies.
PRI sees her as a polished but equally centralizing successor to AMLO, using constitutional supermajorities to bury the PRI's electoral comeback path.