Claudia Sheinbaum
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 Jewish person 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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Sep 19, 2026
Lean Left
Responded to Trump's demand that Mexico do more against cartels by turning the spotlight on U.S. drug use and money laundering.
The PRD criticizes Sheinbaum for converting a sovereignty question into a rhetorical volley with Washington while Morena's security strategy still produces violence and impunity at home.
Sep 18, 2026
Far Right
President Sheinbaum continues to push judicial reform and defends her security strategy despite rising violence in several states.
PAN views Sheinbaum as a dangerous centralizer who is using Morena's supermajority to eliminate checks and balances while failing to control cartels.
Sep 18, 2026
Lean Right
Sheinbaum is navigating the fallout from the U.S. terrorist designation of Mexican cartels and facing criticism for her cautious response.
PRI sees her as weak on sovereignty and security, prioritizing ideological posturing over concrete results against organized crime.
Sep 18, 2026
Lean Left
Led the 216th Grito de Independencia from the National Palace, celebrating migrants, women insurgents, and Indigenous peoples in her annual address.
PRD sees Sheinbaum's nationalist spectacle as a cynical substitute for the democratic pluralism her party once embodied, and her refusal to protect electoral autonomy threatens what remains of Mexico's competitive politics.
Sep 18, 2026
Far Left
The Senate approved her request to allow 139 US soldiers into Chihuahua for joint exercises, and her government is touting the Infonavit's 2% reduction in bad loans.
Morena sees her as a steady hand managing US military cooperation without ceding sovereignty, and as a president whose housing and financial policies are bearing fruit after years of PRI neglect.
Sep 16, 2026
Lean Right
Mexico's president is deepening technology cooperation with Beijing in sectors most sensitive to US security concerns [5].
Criticized by market liberals for trading regulatory independence and US goodwill for Chinese capital without transparent safeguards.
Sep 16, 2026
Far Right
The president continues to defend her security strategy and energy reforms while facing criticism over cartel violence and CFE failures.
PAN sees her as an ideologue who inherited AMLO's popularity but lacks his political instinct, and who is doubling down on failed policies rather than course-correcting on security and energy.
Sep 16, 2026
Lean Right
As president, she oversees policies leading to Pemex's losses and judicial reassignments.
PRI blames her administration for economic mismanagement and attacks on judicial independence, framing her as continuing AMLO's failed policies.
Sep 16, 2026
Lean Left
As president, she oversees the security cooperation allowing U.S. troops into Chihuahua and the tax proposals from Morena lawmakers on soda and salty foods.
The PRD criticizes Sheinbaum for deepening military ties with the U.S. and expanding regressive consumption taxes that hit working-class Mexicans, despite her party's leftist rhetoric.
Sep 16, 2026
Far Left
Her request for 139 U.S. military personnel to enter Chihuahua for joint training was approved by the Senate.
Morena sees this as sovereign cooperation managed on Mexico's terms, a contrast to the subordination they accuse PAN and PRI of historically accepting with Washington.