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The video of the woman being groped from behind by, and avoiding an unwanted kiss from, a stranger on the street is Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum.

"MEXICO CITY — What should have been a five-minute time-saving walk from Mexico’s National Palace to the Education Ministry for President Claudia Sheinbaum has become a symbol of what Mexican women face every day after a video captured a drunk man groping the country’s first woman president.

"On Wednesday, gender violence catapulted to the highest-profile platform, and Sheinbaum used her daily press briefing to say that she had pressed charges against the man.

"…She also called on states to scrutinize their laws and procedures to make it easier for women to report such assaults and said Mexicans needed to hear a “loud and clear, no, women’s personal space must not be violated.”

"Sheinbaum said she felt a responsibility to press charges for all Mexican women. “If this is done to the president, what is going to happen to all of the young women in our country?”

"Indeed, if Mexico’s president is not exempt from street harassment, then it’s not difficult to imagine what women with hourslong commutes on public transportation are experiencing daily.

"Andrea González Martínez, 27, who works for Mexican lender Nacional Monte de Piedad, said she has been harassed on public transportation, in one case the man followed her home.

“It happens regularly, it happens on public transportation,” she said. “It’s something you experience every day in Mexico.”

"Her coworker, Carmen Maldonado Castillo, 43, said she has witnessed it.

“You can’t walk around free in the street,” she said. …"

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/05/mexico-president-sheinbaum-presses-charges-after-street-groping-incident-00639381