The Fifth Floor: Who is Mexico's first female president?

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On October 1st, Claudia Sheinbaum will take office and become Mexico's first female president. What will her presidency look like? With Laura García from BBC Mundo and Luis Fajardo from BBC Monitoring.

Produced by Caroline Ferguson and Alice Gioia.

(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich.)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
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0:09.0	the fifth floor.
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0:21.0	This is the fifth floor at the heart of global storytelling with BBC journalists from all around the world.
0:29.0	I'm your host, Parenak Amidie D. In June, Mexico elected its first female president.
0:35.0	In June, Mexico elected its first female president. She's Guego.
0:44.0	Guego,
0:47.0	Her name is Mexico.
0:48.0	Her name is Claudia Schainbaum. Before her life in politics, she worked as an
0:57.0	environmental scientist and has been the mayor of Mexico City since 2018.
1:02.4	She has long been seen as the successor of Mexico's
1:06.2	current president and won the recent election with a landslide victory and will take
1:11.2	office on the 1st of October.
1:14.0	Joining me today to discuss Mexico's new leader, I have Louise Fajardo, Latin America analyst with BBC
1:21.0	Monitoring in Miami and Laura Garcia, BBC Mundo, who is Mexican and she's in the
1:27.0	studio with me. So let's start by finding out more about the political scene in Mexico.
1:32.1	Luis, I'm going to start with you.
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