Laisha Wilkins

In one corner Claudia Sheinbaum and in the other, Xóchitl Gálvez.

While the ruling party wants to sell Xóchitl as the candidate of the oligarchy, her origins lie in the poverty of the mostly indigenous peoples and the marginalization experienced by millions of people in this country.

By Laisha Wilkins

There is no doubt that Mexico is living in times of change, even being such a sexist country, one of the most dangerous places for women, the second with the second highest rate of femicides in Latin America, only behind Brazil, and having great differences in education opportunities, work, responsibilities and salaries; today, for the first time a Mexican woman could occupy the presidency.

The struggle began in the 1950's when the right to vote for women was recognized, the path continued with the winning of seats in the House of Representatives and also with the first female governor Griselda Álvarez of Colima, followed by candidacies for the presidency such as Rosario Ibarra, Marcela Lombardo, Cecilia Soto, Patricia Mercado and Josefina Vázquez Mota until reaching today's scenario, with women at the head of the Supreme Court of Justice and the National Electoral Institute, and two women as main candidates for the presidency. This is a new scenario that presents us with the possibility of having one of them in charge of the Executive.

The only Mexican nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature silenced for her tenderness: María Enriqueta Camarillo

We forget her because she wrote with emotion. Because of her cheesiness. Because of her conservatism. Because she refused to use the masculine language of power.

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It is unfortunate that our society continues to justify the aggressors and blame the victims.

Between baby boomers and generation Z

The problem is not that so many different generations are living together for the first time, but that the interests and the way of seeing, understanding and representing what is happening in the world is totally different for each one of them.

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