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May 2024
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Mexico will elect its first woman presid...

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About this episode

Mexico is on the verge of electing its first female President. But there have been historic levels of violence in this election and violence against women still rampant across the country. What difference will either Claudia Sheinbaum or Xochitil Galvez make for Mexican women?

In this episode: 

  • Lucia Newman (@lucianewman), Al Jazeera Senior Latin America Correspondent

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Sarí el-Khalili, Ashish Malhotra, and Sonia Bhagat, with Duha Mosaad, Catherine Nouhan and our host Malika Bilal. 

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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