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Claudia Sheinbaum’s presidency continues to captivate Mexicans 100 days into her term. Her approval rating soars at 80%, a four-point increase from last month. This surge reflects the public’s satisfaction with their electoral choice.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250114183039/https://www.riotimesonline.com/mexican-president-claudia-sheinbaum-dazzles-citizens-with-80-approval-after-100-days/

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.riotimesonline.com%2Fmexican-president-claudia-sheinbaum-dazzles-citizens-with-80-approval-after-100-days%2F

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

She's the US's worst nightmare. An anti-zionist leftist that, like AMLO, is not shy about criticizing US imperialism, and throwing their hypocrisies back in their face.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I have been loving her putting Trump in his place.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She's making America's president look bad, so that's a big boost.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Uh oh, you get those kind of numbers as a socialist in Latin America and the CIA comes calling sooner or later... 😞

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Didn’t her socialist predecessor also have very high approval numbers?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

And thank you for citing the source

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for doing the legwork for me! Looks like he was around 75% approval around his 100 day mark.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Yep. We didn't want neither the PRI nor PAN parties to win again! He did so well during his term despite the haters and Sheinbaum is his pupil. I have a lot of hope for us.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

and accordingly so, they're sending in ron johnson as ambassador to destabilize mexico to get her and her party out of office.

ron johnson is the guy who destabilized central america in the past and he was trained at the school of the americas.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thought you were referring to the Senator from Wisconsin and was confused for a second. Stupid generic-ass white guy names. The guy who was ambassador to El Salvador in the last Trump administration right?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

right.

el pais has a halfway decent article that doesn't list his war crimes on him: https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-16/ronald-johnson-trumps-hawk-in-mexico.html

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

i hope she and her government are prepared for the the cia destablizers that are coming their way.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago

must be nice to have good, qualified leaders

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Please invade Houston, I have terrible Spanish pronunciation but I'll learn.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Make "Te-hass" Mexican Again!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's alright main thing you need is the 'r' sound. It's a tap of your tongue against the roof of your mouth. If you have any idea on how to roll/trill an 'r' it's like that but just once. They also trill them but if you can do the tap that'll work fine for most of it.

'H' is always silent

Two 'L's are a "y" sound.

All vowels are pronounced, even when it's two in a row. Except 'u' after 'g', unless it's 'ü' ex: "bilingüe"

And the other good thing is pronunciation is incredibly consistent, unlike English once you know the rules you should be able to correctly pronounce any Spanish word you see. There's also less sounds than English.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You forgot the "j"

Also the "RR" is absolutely impossible for many people

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think it's impossible for many. But it can certainly be hard to build that muscle memory which can lead to frustration. But your tongue should be physically capable of doing it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not everyone's tongue is physically capable.

I have tried for over 10 years. Fortunately I live in a Spanish speaking country where the rr is very subtle

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They should split up the us between mexico and canada. The rest is a desert anyways you can keep that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Yes, but I'd rather we get the upper half. Otherwise we get the racists in the southern states who hate us and that's kind of fucked up. 🙃

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Did you know hispanic people have the majority ethnicity in Houston? I'm not sure how all of the non-mexican hispanics would feel about Mexico reclaiming any part of Texas, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you can come take back florida anyday. i welcome the cheap drugs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Do you know where those cheap drugs come from?

Or are you talking about pharmaceuticals?