Claudia Sheinbaum, the current mayor of Mexico City and incumbent President López Obrador’s nominee, has come up with a landslide victory in her country’s June 2 general elections to become its first-ever female president over two centuries.

As quickly estimated by the national electoral office, the number of people who voted for Sheinbaum was between 58.3 percent and 60.7 percent. This are the highest numbers in Mexico's entire history. Experts are convinced that Claudia Sheinbaum owes the triumph to her predecessor López Obrador. Her current victory has been brought about by his socially-oriented policies backing the poor that also helped her come of age as a renowned politician.

Mexico has chosen its leader for the next six-year term. This time, the entire duo-cameral Congress (parliament) was also elected, comprising 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 128 republican senators. Running for their six-year terms were eight governors, the Mexico City’s head of government, members of 31 state congresses, and officials with 1,580 municipalities.

This has been the first general election in Mexican history to feature two women as the main presidency contenders. The victorious Claudia Sheinbaum representing the current ruling coalition Sigamos Haciendo Historiacoalition was rivalled by Bertha Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz nominated by the right-wing Fuerza y Corazón por México opposition bloc. Galvez conceded defeat right after preliminary election results that revealed her 26.6 to 28.6 percent of the vote.

Elections in Mexico mean a lot in geopolitical terms, and not only because it is one of the largest Latin American countries, exerting influence on policies of all the states in the region. Mexico has turned into a key player in the changing world order.

First, we are talking about the United States’ southern neighbor. The number of migrants heading through Mexico to the US is soaring to make illegal immigration the most pressing political challenge there. Mexico has been constantly involved in the migration issue that directly impacts America’s home affairs. Ahead of the Mexican election, Washington was sending signals to the potential new president that the United States was hopeful of her country’s obedience in solving the migrant problem in a way beneficial to America, i. e. detaining migrants in its territory and not allowing them reach the border. Publicly, the US has been declaring the need for more decisive measures by the Mexican authorities to curb the drug cartels that supply stuff to the United States.

Second and the most important thing: Washington’s geopolitical interest in the Mexican election is about depriving China of its key exporter role to the United States and other Western countries and replacing it in this status. Under López Obrador, the incumbent left-wing President of Mexico, this plan was unfeasible for ideological reasons: the US did not want to help Mexican economic development under a leftist leader who could not help taking a shy at America. Besides, López Obrador's policies were by and large socially oriented and hardly favoring Western capital. Now the United States and the entire West hope that the new leader changes Mexico’s track and helps the West overcome its dependence on Chinese imports of a whole line of high-tech production, namely electronics.

And in this sense, the United States is placing high hopes on the new neighbor president, Claudia Sheinbaum. Notably, the point is not to make it as rich and affluent as present-day China, but to deprive the latter of tools to enrich itself and gain power worldwide contrary to US interests. America deems Mexico as a slave and satellite, rather than an equal partner, despite having included it on even terms in the free trade agreement with the United States and Canada, known as USMCA. What is abundantly clear with America’s current China policy is that Washington will never let Mexico develop economically to the point where the southern neighbor may start demanding truly respectful treatment as an equal partner. President López Obrador was well aware of that, for which the US considered him disloyal.

Now Washington will embark upon “brainwashing” the new Mexican president. Or rather, it has already. The American establishment is sending an utterly straightforward and cynical message to her — traditionally via its tame press. Here, for example, is how it looks on the pages Britain’s The Economist, a well-known “drain tank” of the Americans: “[Claudia Sheinbaum’s] government will lack money, which may force her to seek much more private-sector investment. If she charts a sensible path, it will benefit Mexicans — and their northern neighbors."

The “sensible path” is certainly that of complete submission to the United States. And the form Mexico's president-elect is asked to make this "right choice" is dead ringer for a thinly veiled threat. Presumably, the near future will see workarounds by the Washington administration to achieve the new Mexican president’s complete obedience to the hegemon.