{"id":53002,"date":"2024-06-02T16:56:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T06:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=53002"},"modified":"2024-06-02T16:56:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T06:56:45","slug":"mexico-on-brink-of-electing-first-woman-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=53002","title":{"rendered":"Mexico on brink of electing first woman president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mexican voters are expected to make history Sunday by electing their first woman president, a milestone in the crime-plagued country where gender-based violence and discrimination have long been rampant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, a former Mexico City mayor and a scientist by training, had a 17 percentage point lead over her main<br \/>\nopposition rival Xochitl Galvez on the eve of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The only man running, centrist Jorge Alvarez Maynez, was trailing far behind as a particularly violent campaign season marked by a string of candidate murders drew to an end.<\/p>\n<p>It means that, barring a huge surprise, a woman is almost certain to break the highest political glass ceiling in Mexico, where around 10 women or girls are murdered every day.<\/p>\n<p>That prospect motivates other women to succeed and to think &#8220;yes you can,&#8221; said Blanca Sosa, a 31-year-old store worker in Mexico City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican voters are expected to make history Sunday by electing their first woman president, a milestone in the crime-plagued country where gender-based violence and discrimination have long been rampant. Ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, a former Mexico City mayor and a scientist by training, had a 17 percentage point lead over her main opposition rival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1666],"class_list":["post-53002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-mexico-on-brink-of-electing-first-woman-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}