Claudia Sheinbaum, the favorite to become Mexico’s first female president.
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Women represent half of Mexico’s Congress and hold key positions in politics and the judiciary. But the country is still dogged by high rates of femicide.
Pink and white: Mexicans dressed in the colours of the nation’s election monitoring body protest against the recent reforms.
AP Photo/Fernando Llano
Many Mexicans fear that the democratic safeguards set up after decades of authoritarian rule are being undermined.
National Guard on patrol after gang conflict in Comunidad del Naranjo, Guerrero, Mexico.
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Many governments can’t afford to offer the sort of economic stimulus we’ve seen in the west, and organised crime is only too happy to fill the gap.