Mexico President Caludia Sheinbaum groped by drunk man as she addresses residents on the road

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum mentioned on Wednesday (November 5, 2025) that the harassment she suffered from a drunk man on the street close to Mexico’s seat of presidency was an assault on all girls and that is why she determined to press expenses in opposition to him.

Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada had introduced in a single day that the person had been arrested.

In a video circulating extensively on social platforms, the person appeared to lean in for a kiss and contact the President’s physique along with his palms on Tuesday. She gently pushed his palms away, sustaining a stiff smile as she turned to face him. She may very well be heard to say partly, “Don’t fear.”

On Wednesday, Ms. Sheinbaum was agency in emphasising that this was not the primary time she had suffered such harassment and that the issue went far past the President. “No man has the best to violate that house,” she mentioned.

“I made a decision to press expenses as a result of that is one thing that I skilled as a girl, however that we as girls expertise in our nation,” she mentioned. “I’ve skilled it earlier than, once I wasn’t President, once I was a scholar.”

The incident instantly raised questions in regards to the President’s safety, but in addition was a high-profile instance of the form of harassment girls cope with every day throughout Mexico.

Ms. Sheinbaum defined that she and her group had determined to stroll from the National Palace to the Education Ministry to save lots of time. She mentioned they may stroll it in 5 minutes, fairly than taking a 20-minute automotive experience. She mentioned she wouldn’t change how she acts.

Ms. Brugada used a few of Ms. Sheinbaum’s personal language about being elected Mexico’s first lady President to emphasize that harassment of any lady — on this case Mexico’s strongest — is an assault on all girls.

When Ms. Sheinbaum was elected, she mentioned that it wasn’t simply her coming to energy, it was all girls. Ms. Brugada mentioned that was “not a slogan, it is a dedication to not look the opposite approach, to not permit misogyny to proceed to be veiled in habits, to not settle for a single extra humiliation, not one other abuse, not a single femicide extra.”