When Claudia Sheinbaum won election in a landslide this month to become Mexico’s next leader, many wondered how independent she would be from her mentor and predecessor, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
So far, the answer seems to be not very.
This week Sheinbaum threw her weight behind one of López Obrador’s most controversial proposals, a sweeping overhaul of the judicial system under which all federal judges, including members of the Supreme Court, would be elected by popular vote.
Read more at the Los Angeles Times.