Supporters started gathering at daybreak to rejoice the inauguration of the brand new chief of the world’s most populous Spanish-speaking nation, house to 129 million folks, which has had 65 male presidents since independence.
“We arrived at 5 within the morning,” stated Marta Ramirez, a housewife who got here by bus from the central metropolis of Leon to affix the celebrations in Mexico Metropolis’s fundamental sq..
A girl president “understands the folks higher,” she stated.
“She’s a really courageous girl,” stated Estela Lopez Hernandez, who made the 12-hour journey from Puerto Escondido in southern Mexico.
One high-profile absence on the ceremony was Spanish King Felipe VI, whom Sheinbaum refused to ask, accusing him of failing to acknowledge the hurt brought on by colonization.
In response, Spain introduced it might boycott the inauguration, regardless of its sturdy financial and historic hyperlinks with Mexico.