""This is something that I experienced as a woman, but that we as women experience in our country,""
""If I do not file a complaint, where does that leave all Mexican women? If they do this to the president, what happens to all the other women in the country?""
""No man has the right to violate that space.""
""I am not alone, we are all here," she said. "I will not let you down.""
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's first female president, reported being sexually assaulted while interacting with passers-by in Mexico City and announced she filed criminal charges. She described the incident as part of a broader pattern that Mexican women face and recounted a similar advance she experienced at age 12. She stated that filing a complaint matters for the safety and dignity of all women. Violence against women has surged, with a 2024 Atlantic Council estimate that over 70% of Mexican women over 15 have experienced some form of abuse, driven by machismo and weak institutional responses. Sheinbaum has international recognition for leadership and diplomacy and has publicly criticized U.S. airstrikes while managing trade tensions with the United States.
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