, Columnist
Claudia Sheinbaum Is Having a Bummer Summer
Problems are piling up for Mexico’s president, who is getting squeezed between Donald Trump and her party’s scandals.
Her halo is beginning to dim.
Photographer: Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images
Claudia Sheinbaum is in trouble.
Nearly ten months into her presidency, Mexico’s first female leader is grappling with everything from a tense relationship with Donald Trump’s White House to emerging scandals within the ruling Morena party that are undermining its credentials on fighting corruption. These challenges, in turn, are complicating Sheinbaum’s effort to extricate her presidency from the shadow of her predecessor and political mentor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a.k.a. AMLO.