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It’s hard to call Sunday anything less than a tragedy for the violence-ridden country of Mexico. In the culmination of a race dominated not only by the scourge of the country’s criminal cartels but the looming threat of the ruling faction turning it into a one-party state, former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum was elected to a six-year term to replace outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Sheinbaum was the chosen candidate of the far-left López Obrador and his party, Morena. While it was unclear Monday whether she had the two-thirds supermajority that Morena had hoped for in ord…

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