It's Wednesday, June 5, 2024. I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing. A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, Mexico is going to have a new president and that president is going to be the nation's

first woman president.

It turns out there's more to the story, but that's what the headlines are telling us. In this case, the winning candidate

Claudia Shamebaum is the winner by a significant margin. She defeated another woman, but the point is

Mexico is going to have its first woman president.

That turns out to be very important in terms of politics and in terms of worldview,

because in this case, the new president is coming from the political left and a continuation of the

leftist government that had been in power for the last several years led by

President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador. Now the Mexican president serves for a six year term and cannot be reelected to the office

and so this is as close as the Mexican voters could come to re-electing President

Abridor and so it's going to be very interesting to see what happens.

Most of the speculation, most of the interest in the media has been about the political direction of Mexico.

And of course the big story that has been trumpeted all around the world is the fact that Mexico now has its first woman

president, almost assuredly at this point.

It appears that Claudia Schainbaum won with about a 40% margin in the vote. That is absolutely massive and it's much higher

than anyone had expected. And so even as Mexico's preparing for a new president,

its first woman president, and even as there are big ideological issues that are at stake

we're talking about a very liberal government that's going to be put in place in

America's nearest neighbor to the south it's also important to recognize that there is

something else to this story that the press hasn't necessarily just ignored but

they're pretty sure this must be insignificant and that is the fact that the newly elected

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