Sheinbaum said Sunday night that her two competitors had called her and conceded in an election that guaranteed Mexico would make history. The two leading candidates were women, and Sheinbaum is also the first person from a Jewish background to lead the overwhelmingly Catholic country. Her main competitor, Xóchitl Gálvez, meanwhile, had a father who was Indigenous Otomi. So as Mexicans make history, electing Mexico's first-ever female president, under a cloud of violence ravaging the country, FRANCE 24's Delano D'Souza is joined by Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, Historian, Sociologist and Associate Professor of Latin American History and International Affairs at George Washington University.