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Claudia Sheinbaum: Technocrat or True Believer?

By Benjamin Russell

Mexico City's mayor is an early favorite to succeed AMLO as president. An extended fight over energy reform sheds light on how she'd govern.

MEXICO CITY – Most experts agree that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's proposed reform of Mexico's energy sector will delay its transition to cleaner fuels. Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico City's environmental scientist-turned-mayor, is not among them. For now, congressional opposition and horse-trading have stalled López Obrador's attempt to return state producer CFE to the center of Mexico's energy industry. But in the administration's ongoing sales pitch, Sheinbaum remains a central — and credible — figure. The 59-year-old was part of an IPCC climate change panel that won...

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