Mexico’s first female president promises ‘no return to drug war’

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Mexico’s first female president promises ‘no return to ***** war’

Mexico’s first female president promised that there will be no return to the “irresponsible” ***** war between the government and the cartels.

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, 62, pledged more intelligence work and investigations to tackle surging *****-related ********* during her swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday.

“There will be no return to the irresponsible ***** war,” she said.

Tackling organised ****** ******** a key political issue in Mexico following the “hugs, not bullets” strategy of her predecessor

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the Left-wing populist.

After

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, Mr Obrador declared Mexico’s war on ***** cartels “over” and began a policy of addressing the “root causes” of *********.

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Claudia Sheinbaum (right) and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the outgoing president – AFP

Ms Sheinbaum’s comments came after northern Mexico was thrown into chaos because of weeks of deadly **** battles between two factions of the Sinaloa cartel, the country’s biggest and most powerful narcotics gang.

At least 50 people have been ******* in the clashes, which began on Sept 9 in the city of Culiacan and have since spread to other parts of Sinaloa.

Mexico’s ***** war is considered to have begun in 2006, when Felipe Calderón, the then president, sent troops to the state of Michoacán to tackle ***** *********.

In her inauguration speech in Mexico’s congress, Ms Sheinbaum also said: “It’s time for transformation, it’s time for women.

“I’m a mother, a grandmother, a scientist and a woman of ******, and from today, by the will of the ******** people, the president.”

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Claudia Sheinbaum (center) during an inauguration event on Tuesday – Stephania Corpi

She went on to promise limits on food and fuel prices, as well as to expand cash hand-out programmes for women and children.

Ms Sheinbaum was blessed and brushed with herbs and incense by Ernestina Ortiz, a “spiritual guide”, who told her: “You are a voice for all of us who had no voice for a long time.”

An Indigenous elder then handed Ms Sheinbaum a wooden Indigenous “staff of authority”.

After her speech, legislators shouted “Presidenta! Presidenta!”, using the feminine form of president in Spanish for the first time in over 200 years of Mexico’s history as an independent country.

A scientist by training and the former mayor of Mexico City, Ms Sheinbaum won a landslide victory in June.

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