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Jun 2024
26m 19s

Breaking Mexico’s Glass Ceiling

CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies
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CSIS’s Mariana Campero, host of Mexico Matters and co-host of It’s More than Grit with Andrew Schwartz, joins the podcast to discuss Mexico’s historic election of Claudia Sheinbaum, the country’s first woman and first Jewish president, and how Mexicans are reacting to the election results.

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