Mexico’s next president will either be former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum or Sen. Xóchitl Gálvez.

Voters will mark that historic moment this Sunday when they go to the polls to elect the country’s first female president, choose congressional representatives and decide local races.

While I’d like to take a moment to kiss off Mexico’s “machismo” culture, it is impossible not to dive right into the alarming cartel violence shocking the political world just south of our border.

The new president faces enormous challenges in the cartels and an increasingly hostile United States, where politicians keep talking of invading Mexico militarily in their quest to get elected.

It’s worrisome to think that neither Sheinbaum nor Gálvez can or are willing to take on the cartels and U.S. aggression. And no, their gender has nothing to do with........

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