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 16, 2026
Far Left
Sheinbaum proposed sweeping corporate income tax changes to raise up to 140 billion pesos, angering businesses but aiming to narrow Mexico's budget deficit.
The far left is watching Sheinbaum carefully: a leftist president trying to fund public priorities by taxing corporations is a welcome contrast to the US, but the risk is that capital flight and business pressure will force a retreat.
Sep 15, 2026
Far Right
Sheinbaum is pushing judicial reform and defending her security strategy amid rising violence in Sinaloa.
PAN views her as a continuation of AMLO's authoritarian project, criticizing her for prioritizing power consolidation over public safety and checks and balances.
Sep 15, 2026
Lean Right
President Sheinbaum continues to push her legislative agenda, including judicial reform and energy sovereignty, while facing criticism over security and economic management.
PRI views Sheinbaum as continuing AMLO's authoritarian tendencies and failing to address the real concerns of Mexicans on security and economy.
Sep 15, 2026
Center
Although not directly named in these articles, she is the central figure in the judicial reform's first anniversary and the T-MEC negotiations.
Centro voters weigh her administration's judicial overhaul against economic management; the T-MEC talks and judicial documentary keep her policies under scrutiny.
Sep 15, 2026
Lean Left
She is the implicit beneficiary of the 'Mexico's week in review' framing that credits record exports and gas production to the current government.
The PRD should be pressing Sheinbaum on whether record exports translate into wages and regional development, not just headline macro numbers, and on why PISA results got buried under patriotic framing.
Sep 14, 2026
Far Right
Consolidó la reforma al Poder Judicial que permite la elección popular de jueces y ministros, y avanza con su agenda legislativa.
El PAN la critica por concentrar poder y debilitar contrapesos institucionales, considerándola continuadora del autoritarismo de AMLO.
Sep 14, 2026
Lean Right
Her administration's Isthmus development poles and security strategy are under fire as zero firms operate and explosives seizures spike.
The PRI blames Sheinbaum for prioritizing photo-op projects over real investment and for a security policy that has emboldened cartels.
Sep 14, 2026
Center
As president, Sheinbaum indirectly owns the controversy over Universidades del Bienestar, which El Universal reports suffer from opacidad en resultados académicos.
Centro voters see Sheinbaum's education flagship as a test of whether Morena can govern with transparency, and the opacity story feeds doubts that her party prioritizes loyalty over measurable results.
Sep 14, 2026
Lean Left
Her government is touting record export and gas production figures as proof of economic success in the weekly news roundup.
The PRD criticizes Sheinbaum for using macroeconomic numbers to mask the PISA education collapse and for concentrating power through Morena's legislative majority instead of strengthening checks and balances.
Sep 14, 2026
Far Left
President Sheinbaum will give the Grito de Independencia from the National Palace balcony, marking a historic moment as the first woman to do so.
Morena celebrates this as a triumph for gender equality and the party's progressive agenda, highlighting Sheinbaum's leadership.