Claudia Sheinbaum took office on Oct. 1, the first woman and the first Jewish person to lead Mexico in the country’s more than 200-year history as an independent nation. “For the first time, we women have arrived to lead the destinies of our beautiful nation,” Ms. Sheinbaum said during her inauguration ceremony. “And I say we arrived because I do not arrive alone. We all arrived.”

The former mayor of Mexico City, Ms. Sheinbaum triumphed in June elections with the largest margin of victory since Mexico transitioned to democracy, and a sweeping mandate to follow through on her promise to continue the social policies of her predecessor and mentor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.