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 6, 2026
Lean Left
She signed the new federal transparency decree on Tuesday, touting 'total transparency' while replacing the INAI system her government dissolved in 2024.
PRD sees her decree as the consolidation of Morena's control over information access, turning an autonomous watchdog into a presidential instrument.
Aug 6, 2026
Far Left
La Presidenta recibió recomendaciones del psicólogo Jonathan Haidt para separar a los alumnos de los teléfonos y fijar en 16 años la edad para abrir redes sociales.
Es la figura central de la 4T; su gestión se medirá por traducir esa asesoría en política pública, aunque se le critica lentitud regulatoria.
Aug 6, 2026
Far Right
Enfrenta su primera gran prueba internacional con la pausa arancelaria de Trump y empuja la elección popular de jueces.
El PAN la ve como la continuadora del proyecto de López Obrador, favorable a la militarización y a la destrucción de contrapesos.
Aug 6, 2026
Lean Right
She is central to the news cycle as she promotes Morena's new judicial rules, manages the tariff response, and presents her security plan.
PRI's verdict is that she governs as a disciplined Morena loyalist rather than as president of all Mexico, and her decisions concentrate power in the presidency.
Aug 4, 2026
Lean Right
The president is in the news for steering the ruling bloc's constitutional reforms and defending her trade and security agenda from opposition criticism.
PRI views her as the political heir of AMLO and the central threat to the party's survival because she uses Mexico's institutions to consolidate one-party rule.
Aug 4, 2026
Far Left
She laid the first stone of the new IMSS general hospital in San Lorenzo Cacaotepec, Oaxaca.
Praised by Morena as the leader consolidating the Fourth Transformation's health system expansion across the country.
Aug 3, 2026
Center
Her administration owns the Bienestar catering report and the federal security response to CJNG cells like Los Deltas.
Center readers grade her on closing the gap between Morena's austerity rhetoric and actual public spending, plus delivering measurable security results.
Aug 2, 2026
Far Right
President Sheinbaum is publicly defending the judicial election as democratic while opposition voices denounce it as a judicial takeover.
PAN criticizes her for executing AMLO's institutional demolition and turning the justice system into a Morena patronage operation.
Aug 2, 2026
Lean Right
She opens the news cycle with her daily morning conference and keeps control of Morena's legislative agenda.
PRI voters see her as the steward of a left-populist project that weakens federalism and punishes critical states.
Aug 1, 2026
Lean Left
She used Thursday's mañanera to tout Q2 GDP growth, back the Navy's sargassum plan, and endorse an INE ruling that barred PRI from calling her government a narco-government.
PRD sees her as the center of a presidential machine that mixes propaganda with institutional pressure to discipline the opposition.