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 stomach-churning viral moment after a video captured a drunk man groping the president.
The brief clip has given the daily harassment and assaults that women suffer in Mexico their highest-profile platform. And on Wednesday, Sheinbaum used her daily press briefing to say that she had pressed charges against the man.
She also called on states to look at 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.”
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“It’s not good that men attack us,” she said. “You can’t walk around free in the street.”
Sheinbaum said Wednesday that she understands how widespread the problem is.
“I decided to press charges because this is something that I experienced as a woman, but that we as women experience in our country,” she said.
She said she had similar experiences of harassment when she was 12 years old and using public transportation to get to school. As president, she said, she felt like she had a responsibility to all women.
WOW. This is some sad stuff. To say the least. BE SAFE.!
I was hoping that the drunk man, now arrested, was Trump.