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MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s incoming President Claudia Sheinbaum began naming her Cabinet Thursday, presenting an even gender distribution, as well as a heavy presence from academia and her prior administration as Mexico City’s mayor. Sheinbaum, herself a climate scientist and former academic, appointed former Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard as her administration’s economy secretary. Ebrard stepped down from that post in 2023 to run against Sheinbaum for their party’s nomination.
De la Fuente, 72, is the former rector of Mexico’s largest university, the public National Autonomous University of Mexico, or UNAM, which Sheinbaum attended and worked at. He has served as Mexico’s ambassador to the United Nations under López Obrador and is known for a calm and diplomatic demeanor. He was health secretary in the late 1990s. Trained as a psychiatrist, De la Fuente is good at listening and has an academic air, like Sheinbaum herself.
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