Mexico just offered Americans two important lessons — in electing its first female president and accepting the election results.

Remarkable, right?

Americans love to boast about our democratic values, and some like to look at Mexico as a third world country that does not send its “best” to the U.S.

Yet, Mexico is giving the U.S. a few lessons worth noting and heeding.

On Sunday, Mexican voters flocked to the polls and chose Claudia Sheinbaum as its next head of state to replace outgoing president and mentor Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Sheinbaum will be sworn in Oct. 1, joining 11 Latin American countries that have or have had a female president. That includes Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Chile.

That’s something the U.S. hasn’t........

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