By Alek Buttermann Claudia Sheinbaum has made history as Mexico’s first female president, stepping into a role shaped by her mentor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who founded the Morena party on a leftist platform in 2012. While her election in June marked a pivotal moment for gender equality in the country, the position comes with overwhelming challenges that her predecessor left unresolved. AMLO’s ambitious social reforms and policies won him widespread popularity, but they also left the country facing major issues that Sheinbaum must now urgently address. The 61-year-old climate scien…