Mexico, the largest Spanish-speaking country with 130 million inhabitants and the 15th biggest economy in the world, is at a critical point. Its democracy is quite new, starting to change in 2000 after the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ruled alone for 71 years following the revolution.

In 2018, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known as AMLO, won the presidency with his new party, Morena. He remains popular but cannot run for president again due to Mexico's laws. On June 2, 2024, Mexicans will choose from three new candidates, with the two main ones being women for the first time. Claudia Sheinbaum from Morena and Xóchitl Gálvez from the opposition’s Broad Front are both experienced in politics.

This episode of "Who is Voting in 2024?" looks into how ongoing violence is affecting Mexico's democracy and the election with Sandra Ley, political scientist, head of the Security Program at México Evalúa, and Javier Aparicio, economist, and professor at the CIDE.

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