During Monday’s morning press conference, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) highlighted the importance of the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the first female president of Mexico.
“Yesterday I already congratulated her. I am very happy because you can imagine what it means to hand over the presidency to a woman after 200 years of republican life in which only men governed Mexico since 1824,” he said.
The first female president in north america
write better headlines smh
Not a president, but Canada had a female PM for like 4 months in 1993.
not elected
(or was she?)
not true, in north america she’s actually the 6th female president, and 10th female leader overall! (maybe many USians don’t know but North America includes everything above South America, including Central America and the Caribbean)
NA countries that have had a female president (excluding countries where the presidency is only a figurehead role):
Costa Rica
Haiti
Honduras (incumbent)
Nicaragua
Panama
NA countries that have had a female PM (excluding countries where the prime ministry is only a figurehead role):
Barbados (incumbent)
Canada (only interim so kinda on a technicality)
Dominica
Jamaica
First elected president in nafta states
(i was going by concacaf zones 🥺)
You are right! Thanks for the feedback, comrade!!