Governor Gavin Newsom traveled to south to Mexico on Monday for the inauguration of the country’s first woman to be elected as president, Claudia Sheinbaum.
Her historic inauguration is scheduled for Tuesday in Mexico City. In addition to becoming the first woman to be elected in the country’s 200-year history, the climate scientist will also be the first person of a Jewish background to lead Mexico, in which its citizens are predominately Catholic.
Sheinbaum has a history with the Golden State, having spent several years in the 1990s researching at the Berkely Lab, where she studied transportation energy use in Mexico, as well as trends for the country’s energy use in buildings.
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On Tuesday, Claudia Sheinbaum will officially be the first woman president in Mexico’s 200 year history. Her election is one peak in what has been several years of significant progress for gender parity in elected office.
This is not Newsom’s first trip to Mexico for a presidential inauguration. When he was governor-elect, Newsom visited Mexico City for the inauguration of Sheinbaum’s predecessor, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.