Mexico: Initial Reactions to the US Election

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8

PROGRAM #10588 12:00 PM PT 

Mexico Edition. 

After the first results in the closely contested presidential election in the US, what are the first official reactions in Mexico? How are the major Mexican media outlets covering the results? On another news, pressed by a public uproar, the state prosecutor in Queretaro dropped the homicide charge against a 14-year-old indigenous girl who was raped and had an abortion. Now women advocates are urging the local congress to decriminalize abortion to prevent human rights abuses.

Guests: David Brooks, Correspondent, La Jornada, New York, NY; Tonatiuh Guillen Lopez, Former Commissioner, National Migration Institute, Mexico City, MX; excerpts from recent statements by Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

Photo: Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo/Facebook

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