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🇲🇽🗳📃 — According to the polls, Claudia Sheinbaum is set to become Mexico's first female, and first Jewish, President.
➡️ As the Mexican elections take place, all polls show that Ms. Sheinbaum — the candidate from the Left-wing Populist, Socialist and Pan-Americanist MORENA Party — is ahead with 55%;
➡️ Xóchitl Gálvez, an ethnic Otomi indigenous businesswoman, from the Center-right National Action Party, is on the second place, with 31%.
But who Sheinbaum is?
➡️ Her father, Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz, an Ashkenazi Jewish man was a son of a Jewish family whom migrated from Lithuania to Mexico during the Lithuanian War of Independence against the Bolshevik Forces. Claudia Sheinbaum's grandfather was a jewelry merchant who in Mexico was heavily involved in the activities of the Mexican Communist Party.
➡️ For her mother part, she descends from the renowned scientist Annie Pardo Cemo, comes from a Sephardic family originally from the city of Sofia in Bulgaria, which arrived in Mexico in the 1940s fleeing the Holocaust. Annie Pardo took classes at a Jewish school and later studied biology at the UNAM, later achieving a 'milestone' by becoming "the first Sephardic Jewish woman to enter the Mexican academy"
➡️ Claudia Sheinbaum, the couple’s second daughter, went to liberal non-Jewish schools and studied physics at the same university as her mother. An expert on climate change, she was part of an international team that won a Nobel Prize in 2007. Like her parents, she was involved in student activism and, in 1998, helped form the Revolutionary Democratic Party — for many years the main leftist opposition party in Mexico.
➡️ In politics, Sheinbaum began as Mexico City's Secretary of the Environment. At the time, the mayor was Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who would become president with the party he founded, Morena.
➡️ Sheinbaum followed López Obrador in Morena and, after commanding a district in Mexico City, became mayor, with whom she has since maintained a close relationship regarding his person and his Left-wing, socialist and rather anti-western foreign policy-based political agenda.
➡️ During her tenure as mayor of the capital, between 2018 and 2023, the Covid-19 pandemic and the collapse of a subway line occurred. When dealing with the accident, she reached an agreement with the construction company, which belongs to tycoon Carlos Slim: the victims received compensation and the case was not taken to court.
➡️ As noted by Jewish Telegram Agency's Alan Grabinsky, “The local news doesn't touch or discuss Sheinbaum's Jewish heritage, probably just the way she wants it”, as she, as herself said, wants to be noted by her policies, and not her ethnicity
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🇵🇸 However, despite being a Jew, Sheinbaum is critical of the Israeli Government, something similar to the also Socialist and Former Presidential candidate of Argentina, Myriam Bregman — also a Jew and a Trotskyist herself.
“Because of my Jewish origin, because of my love for Mexico and because I feel like a citizen of the world, I share with millions the desire for justice, equality, fraternity and peace,” Sheinbaum explained in the op-ed. “No reason justifies the murder of Palestinian civilians.”
✡️ As noted by JTA, for Sheinbaum, the reference to her Jewishness was rare. Like many other liberal, secular Jewish politicians around the world, Sheinbaum rarely identifies publicly as Jewish. Despite extensive coverage in the Jewish media, her relationship with her Jewish identity is tenuous.
🏳️🌈 Sheinbaum classifies herself as a feminist, advocating for a more liberal view on abortion, and during her mandate as Mayor of Mexico city, championed for LGBT rights by implementing a gender-neutral policy for student uniforms and was the first-ever Head of Government of Mexico to ever participate on a Gay Pride March
➡️ Sheinbaum pledged to continue President Lopez Obrador's left-wing, democratic socialist policies and criticized past Mexican Presidents for their "neoliberal views"
Ukrainian forces have begun training and testing exoskeletons for battlefield use. Soldiers from the 147th Separate Artillery Brigade are using them in the Pokrovsk sector for both logistics and frontline operations. The goal is to reduce physical strain, especially when loading heavy artillery shells into howitzers without automatic loaders. Artillery crews can handle up to 1200 kg of ammunition per day, and early tests show that exoskeletons help them work faster and with less fatigue Above all, by improving the conditions for those soldiers on the front lines who handle such heavy loads, plus the stress of work. Seeking to reduce overall fatigue in the troops
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🇮🇷🇮🇱 - 14 wounded in Iranian missile strike in central Israel, according to Israeli media.
🇬🇧🇮🇶 - A drone struck British Castrol oil warehouses in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, causing extensive damage.
🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Iran launched 9 missiles towards Israel this morning alone, with at least 3 of them being cluster missiles.
🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Over the past 12 hours, Hezbollah launched counterattacks in Khiam and Qantara, in the Nabatieh direction, southeast Lebanon. Hezbollah recaptured northern Khiam, with fighting ongoing for the south of the town. Hezbollah units also re-entered Qantara; frontline sources reported clashes in the center of the town last night.
🇱🇧🇮🇱 - 48 IDF soldiers have been wounded in clashes with Hezbollah over the last 24 hours in southern Lebanon, according to the Israeli Army.
🇱🇧🇮🇱 - "The Israeli army is barely catching its breath in southern Lebanon, and its resources are less than in the previous round of fighting," - Haaretz....
🇺🇸 Blue Owl Capital just disclosed that investors tried to pull 40.7% of one fund and 21.9% of another in a single quarter, and both funds gave the same answer, you can only have 5% back, and everyone else waits in line.
This is a bank run, not a normal withdrawal.
Wall Street spent the last decade selling millions of investors on something called semi-liquid private credit, higher yields, steady income and the promise you could get your money back every quarter if you needed it. What they buried in the fine print was what happens when too many people try to leave at the same time.
Analysts who have covered private credit for decades say nothing on this scale has ever been reported before at any major private credit manager.
These funds do not hold stocks you can sell on a Tuesday afternoon, they hold private loans to mid sized companies that cannot be liquidated quickly without destroying the price for every investor still trapped inside.
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🇺🇸 President Trump wants to switch to war economy in 2027 with massive increase in military spending and massive cuts to healthcare and other domestic agencies
Once a deficit hawk — he said in 2016 that he thought he could balance the budget in five years — Trump ended his first term with $7.8 trillion in added debt. His 2027 proposal is expected to give an update on 10-year deficit projections currently estimated at around $16 trillion.
The GOP's message for the Midterms will be focused on the "need" for a massive defense build up while the Democrats' message will be focused on affordability.
The fiscal 2027 budget will be the first time Trump puts his second-term governing agenda into one comprehensive document — with the numbers to back it up. The budget he released last year lacked detailed line-by-line spending targets and the economic assumptions necessary to project the long-term cost of his proposals.
Investors in US Treasuries will be looking to see if the debt and ...
