Mexico elects its first female president
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🗓️ 3 June 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday June 3rd 2024. This is the |
| 0:18.6 | excerpt. Today Mexico has elected a new president. |
| 0:25.6 | Plus we take a look at Hunter Biden's gun trial which is set to begin today and |
| 0:30.3 | its corporate America keeping promises it made to black Americans. |
| 0:35.0 | Mexicans have elected their first woman president. |
| 0:38.5 | Claudia Shinebaum received between 58.3 and 60.7% of the vote according to preliminary results announced by Mexico's |
| 0:46.2 | National Electoral Institute earlier today. On October 1st, she'll become the leader of a country |
| 0:51.9 | that is the top trade partner of the US and the second largest |
| 0:55.3 | economy of Latin America. She'll also be overseeing a country slammed by violence tied to |
| 1:00.4 | organized crime. With Shinebaum's win, Mexico beat the United States in |
| 1:04.4 | electing a female head of state. Shinebaum is a scientist, engineer, and |
| 1:09.2 | former mayor of Mexico City who shares the populist ideology of her political mentor |
| 1:14.7 | outgoing president Andres Manuel Lopez-obrador. |
| 1:18.0 | For more on what's next across the border, check out our Saturday episode of the excerpt |
| 1:22.2 | when I spoke with USA Today National |
| 1:24.1 | reporter Lauren Viegran who put the election in context for us. You can find a |
| 1:28.8 | link to that episode in today's show notes. |
| 1:35.2 | Hunter Biden's felony gun trial is set to begin today |
| 1:38.5 | following the collapse of a deal with federal investigators last year. I spoke with USA Today Justice |
| 1:44.0 | Department correspondent Bart Chanson for a look ahead. |
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