Mexico’s first female and first Jewish president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said her mother was born in Mexico. Geneological documents show she was born in Bulgaria and survived the Holocaust.

Claudia Sheinbaum, ... Agence France-Presse as a "dedicated leftist known for keeping a cool head in times of crisis," is the granddaughter of Bulgarian and Lithuanian Jewish migrants, ...

Claudia Sheinbaum speaks after being named presidential candidate of the ruling Morena party for next year's presidential election in Mexico City, Sept. 6, 2023. ... Bulgaria, in the 1940s to ...

JTA — Former Mexican president Vicente Fox apologized to the Jewish community after dismissing political opponent Claudia Sheinbaum, a frontrunner in the developing 2024 presidential race, as a ...

Sheinbaum’s paternal grandparents came from Lithuania in the 1920s. Her maternal grandparents and, according to a Forward investigation, her mother, were Bulgarian Holocaust survivors who ...

Claudia Sheinbaum takes office Tuesday after making history by becoming the first woman to be elected president of Mexico. Why it matters: Her election marks a groundbreaking achievement in a ...

While historic, the rise of Claudia Sheinbaum to lead Mexico, one of the countries with the highest rate of femicides in the world (1,000 in 2021), poses several questions for the country.

Mexico's new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, ... Lithuania, arriving in Mexico in the 1920s, according to the Jewish Telegraph Agency; on her mother's side, they were Bulgarian, ...

Sheinbaum’s paternal grandparents were Ashkenazi Jews who migrated to Mexico from Lithuania in the 1920’s, and her maternal grandparents were Sephardic Jews who came to Mexico from Bulgaria in ...

In Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum will be inaugurated as the country's next president on Tuesday. She's Mexico's first female president and also the first of Jewish heritage. But as Emily Green reports ...

Claudia Sheinbaum is set to make history on Tuesday as Mexico's first female president, marking a significant milestone for a country 200 years after it gained independence.

MEXICO CITY — Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist who jumped from academia to the rocky world of politics, took office Tuesday as Mexico’s first female president. Her inauguration shatters ...