Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum has said she will press charges against a man who groped her during a public appearance.

Mobile phone footage of the incident on Tuesday shows Sheinbaum speaking to a group of supporters on a street near the National Palace in Mexico City. A man approaches her from behind and attempts to kiss her on the neck and place his hands on her body.

“My view is, if I don’t file a complaint, what will happen to other Mexican women? If they do this to the president, what will happen to all women in our country?” Sheinbaum said at a news conference on Wednesday.

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    9 days ago

    You know it was staged, right? Everyone knows it’s a distraction from this. It isn’t the first time she does something to distract from the current events…

    I know I’m going to get downvoted for this but it’s infuriating to live in México and you can’t criticize our government because all of you love that an empowered woman is in control… Most of México is a mess right now, cartels are in control, just last weekend I had a trip to my mother’s inherited grandmas house and in a small town and after a 6 hour trip we just went back because they control the town.

    My mom said she rather lose her childhood home than our lives…

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      9 days ago

      Are the federales lacking resources or intent? That assassination was clearly a message, I admittedly don’t know a lot about Mexican politics but is it possible to defeat the cartels or is it a competition of monopoly?

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        Morena, her political party, is very friendly to the drug cartels, AMLO (our last president) went to greet Chapo’s mom for example. He’s the one that created morena.

        His ideology was “let them work and they won’t mess with you” .

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      8 days ago

      Reminds me of Benazir Bhutto as Prime Minister in Pakistan.

      Her PPP party bombed Imran Khan’s cancer hospital a day after he announced his own PTI party.

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      The late mayor also told a group of women in his city that, if their children were in the crime, “do not squeal if they are killed by the government in a confrontation.”

      Imagine stanning for Milei like figures. Rest in piss mayor.