MEXICO IS REELING FROM ITS HISTORIC PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

YOU KNOW, THE SHAME BOMB HAS BEEN ELECTED AS THE COUNTRY'S FIRST WOMAN AND JEWISH PRECEDENT.

AND IT WAS THE FIRST TIME MEXICAN NATIONALS ABROAD GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO CAST IN-PERSON BALLOTS.

CHICAGO'S MEXICAN COMMUNITY SHOWED UP IN THE THOUSANDS AT THE MEXICAN CONSULATE TO VOTE.

BUT NOT EVERYONE GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO.

JOINING US NOW WITH MORE ARE FED THEM AND THIS PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO.

SHE'S ALSO THE AUTHOR OF A BROWN IN THE WINDY CITY, MEXICAN AND PUERTO RICANS IN POST-WAR CHICAGO, IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS ACTIVIST COURT.

CAN AND HISPANICS?

A CASE MANAGER.

I GOT MEET RAKHINE.

WE DID REACH OUT TO THE MEXICAN CONSULATE FOR COMMENT BUT DID NOT HEAR BACK IN TIME FOR THE SHOW.

I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY.

COURT CASE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE WEARING PARTIES.

COME ASK YOU WHO YOU VOTE.

WE THING THAT'S VERY CLEAR.

BUT FIRST LADY WE'RE GOING TO SHARE WITH ELECTION, AS WE ALL KNOW, IS VERY HISTORIC.

LIKE WE MENTIONED, CLOUDY CHAMBERLAIN IS THE FIRST WOMEN JEWISH, A PRECEDENT AND THE MEXICAN HISTORY.

CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HAVING A PRECEDENT WITH BOTH THESE IDENTITIES IN A CATHOLIC MAJORITY.

IT IS A REMARKABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT.

AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO REMEMBER THAT SHINED ON BECOMES I BELIEVE THE 12TH WOMAN, PRESIDENT AND ALL OF LATIN AMERICA, A REGION THAT UNITED STATES TIME TEND THINK IS LESS POLITICALLY PROGRESSIVE LESS ADVANCE IN TERMS OF GENDER EQUITY AND ISSUES OF THAT NATURE.

AND THE FACT THAT MEXICO HASN'T ELECTED A FEMALE PRESIDENT BEFORE WE HAVE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES VERY TELLING.

THAT WAS GOING TO BE MY NEXT.

MY NEXT QUESTION TO YOU AS WELL.

WHAT'S WHAT'S THE MESSAGE THAT THIS SENDS THAT MEXICO THEIR FIRST WOMAN JEWISH PRECEDENT BEFORE THE U.S.?

YES ON BOTH COUNTS, DAVE MEXICO HAS SURPASSED THE U.S.

I THINK IT FORCES US TO RECONSIDER.

YOU KNOW HOW WE THINK OF OURSELVES AS AMERICANS AS BEING AGAIN, MUCH MORE ADVANCED, MUCH MORE DEVELOPED AND SOPHISTICATED POLITICALLY COMPARED TO OUR NEIGHBORS TO THE SOUTH.

AND IT SHOULD FORCE US TO RECONSIDER.

POSSIBILITIES IN MEDICAL YOU KNOW WHAT WE MIGHT EXPECT GOING FORWARD, WHAT WE WERE VERY CLOSE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.

ALSO, YES, MEXICO IN REGARD.

VERY CLOSE HOPE.

IT'S QUESTION TO YOU.

WHAT WHAT DO YOU THINK?

IT'S A MESSAGE THAT MEXICO IS SENDING, YOU KNOW, HAVING ELECTED THEIR FIRST A WOMAN AND U.S. PRESIDENT.

WELL, IT'S AN INCREDIBLE BE TREE FOR MAKES CAN AND THEY STARTED VOTING 60 YEARS AGO AND WOMEN WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE IN ELECTION.

SOME TO THE LATE 50'S 1958.

IF I'M OR 1964.

SO IN 60 YEARS BECOMING FROM NON-VOTING TO ELECTING A PRESIDENT, THIS AND INCREDIBLE TRIUMPH.

NOW THE AND THAT IS THERE IS THE PARTICIPATION OF THE LEFT IN MEXICAN POLITICS SINCE 1979 FOR THE COMMUNITY'S PARTIED IN THE UNIFIED SOCIAL BEAST THEN THIS SOCIALIST MAKES CAN PARTY STARTED WEANING SENATORS.

WE NEED CONGRESS MEANT AND THIS IS JUST THE LATEST CONSEQUENCE.

APPALLED THAT, RIGHT.

YOU KNOW, CLOUDY BUT LISA LEFTIST HAS BEEN A LIFT TO SINCE I MADE LIKE THE ACTUAL PRESIDENT AND THE YOU WERE ONE OF THE THOUSANDS RIGHT ON THAT SUNDAY READY TO ANY IN THE MEXICAN IN CHICAGO'S MEXICAN CONSULATE.

BUT YOU DIDN'T ACTUALLY GET TO VOTE.

WHAT HAPPENED?

WHAT HAPPENED IS THAT THE NATIONAL ELECTION SEEMS TO TO BE THINK THAT SO MANY MEXICANS WERE GOING TO VOTE.

LOGISTICALLY THERE WHERE 1500 PRE-REGISTERED MAKES SENSE TO BOULDER, THE CONSULATE IN PERSON.

I'M 1500 EXTRACT BOUTS AND A CONSOLATION BY THE ELECTION THAT IT IS THAT IT BOULDER WAS GOING TO TAKE 62 SECONDS TO BOAT.

REALITY WAS THAT THEY WERE TAKING BETWEEN 5 AND 10 MINUTES.

SO YOU CAN IMAGINE, RIGHT, MIDDLE OF THE WHERE YOU EXPECT YOU'RE EXPECTING SO MANY WHAT TIME DID YOU GET TO THE MEXICAN CONSUL 07:50AM.

HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE THERE?

IDLY ENDED OR READ CLOSE?

YES, BECAUSE THE LINE WAS ALL AROUND THE BLOCK SURROUNDING THE MEXICAN CONSULATE.

SO THINK ABOUT 400 PEOPLE PER BLOCK, RIGHT?

SO 1600, AT LEAST RIGHT WHERE I DON'T THINK ALLOWED MISTER VOGT.

I THINK ON OFFICIALS YOU DID ACTUALLY GET TO VOTE, RIGHT?

YEAH.

WAS LUCKY TO GET AT THE LAST MINUTE.

IT WAS LIKE 20 MINUTES TO GET IN.

HOW OFFICE?

HOW HOW LONG WERE YOU IN LINE FOR ALICE ARE FROM 7.30, IN THE MORNING.

SO LIKE PROBABLY X 7.

THEY WERE TELLING US THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO PULL.

THE OR VOICES KHALID THIS TIME.

NEXT.

GIVING YOU OTHER OPTIONS LIKE IT WAS.

WAS IT ALREADY TOO LATE TO VOTE ONLINE?

BECAUSE YOU HAVE PRE-REGISTER FOR.

SO THERE WERE 3 OPTIONS, BOTH PAUL SO THAT THEY WILL SEND A BALLOT TO YOUR HOUSE.

SHE WILL SEND IT BACK BEFORE BEFORE THE ELECTIONS.

YOU COLD SIGNING TO DO MINE.

AND THE CONSULATE.

THERE WERE 20 LOCATIONS, I BELIEVE 19 THAT WERE FUNCTIONING THEY DIDN'T EXPECT THIS AMOUNT OF PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE CONSULATE.

THAT'S THING.

WE'RE NOT GOING TO BLAME THE MEANING STATE PUBLIC THAT UNLESS YOU'RE NOT.

WE'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE IT BETTER.

WITH WHAT'S AND THIS.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NOT ONLY HAPPEN HERE IN CHICAGO, APPEARS CAN CLOSE TO OPEN FOR IN-PERSON VOTING.

YEAH, THERE WERE IT WAS THE SAME PROBLEM.

HIS SOLUTION.

YOU ACTUALLY VOTED FOR WHAT DIFFERENT CANDIDATE RIGHT WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION WHEN THE RESULTS WERE FINALIZED?

HONESTLY, WE'RE SEE THIS COMING.

WE'RE NOT EXPECTING TO WIN.

WE JUST DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE ALL THE POWER TO ONE PERSON.

BECAUSE GIVING THE POWER TO ONE PERSON'S, HE'S MAKING A MISTAKE AND THAT HAPPENED BEFORE WITH THE POLITICAL PARTIES THAT WERE IN MANDATE AND MEXICO.

GOING BACK WITH YOU CLEARLY YEAH.

BOATING THAT WE CAN DESCRIBE IT AS A CHAOTIC.

PRETTY MUCH DISORGANIZED WHITE LIKE ANYTHING.

THE MEXICAN WITH SEEMINGLY UNPREPARED FOR THE VOLUME PEOPLE.

YOU KNOW, I THINK WE UNDERESTIMATE HOW MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS AND MEXICAN-AMERICANS MUCH ONLY ARE INTERESTED IN THE ELECTORAL PROCESS.

AND SO THEY WERE VERY UNPREPARED IN THAT REGARD.

I MEAN, IF WE LOOK AT VOTING HERE IN OUR ELECTIONS IN THE U.S. ONLY 11% OF ALL UP THE NOSE IN THE CHICAGO AREA OVER THE AGE OF 18 VOTED IN LAST MAYORAL ELECTION.

AND MEXICANS, OF COURSE, OF THE MAJORITY OF LATINOS THE AREA RIGHT?

WITH SUCH LOW VOTER I THINK WE CAN SAFELY SAY THIS IS A POPULATION THAT IS LARGELY VERY DISENFRANCHISE, NOT ABLE TO EXPRESS THEIR OPINIONS AND LOCAL ELECTIONS IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

IF THEY'RE NOT U.S. CITIZENS, IF THEY HAVE GREEN CARDS OR IF THEY'RE DOCUMENTED OR HAVE SOME OTHER STATUS.

AND SO THE FACT THAT SO MANY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TURNED OUT AT THE MEXICAN CONSULATE OFFICES TO CAST THEIR BALLOT TELLS US THAT PEOPLE INTERESTED.

THEY'RE INVESTED.

THEY WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROCESS.

HOW DO YOU THINK THIS TRANSLATES TO THE ELECTIONS HERE IN THE U.S.

THIS NOVEMBER?

WELL, I HOPE THAT IT'S AN INDICATION THAT MORE PEOPLE REGISTERED TO VOTE AND ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, CAST A BALLOT ON ELECTION DAY.

I THINK THAT TOO MANY HAVE TAKEN A LATINO VOTERS FOR GRANTED FOR TOO LONG.

AND THE FACT THAT WE WITNESS THIS HISTORIC PARTICIPATION MEXICANS ABROAD OUTSIDE OF MEXICO AND THAT THE ELECTORATE HAS A.

VOTED IN THE FIRST FEMALE, A JEWISH PRESIDENT.

MEXICO AGAIN, REALLY REMARKABLE AND HISTORICALLY FROM IT.

WHAT YOU WAITED FOR SO LONG, WHAT MOTIVATED YOU TO TO KEEP WAITING STAYING LINE AND TO GO VOTE AND IT DID VOTE FROM ABROAD.

I HAVE BEEN FIGHTING FOR THIS FOR 35 YEARS.

SO TO BE HERE DEFINITELY.

AND WE COLLABORATED WITH THE ELECTION NEEDS TO TO TO REGISTER VOTERS TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT EVERYBODY KNEW OR ELECTION DAY BECAUSE THE KIND OF TO THE OPPOSITION WAS CALLING PEOPLE VOTE ON JULY SECOND, YOU KNOW, 40'S IS BUT WE PARTICIPATED VERY HEAVILY MAKING BE ELECTION WHAT ABOUT INSPIRES HIM.

YES, I WAS SAYING BEFORE SHE'S MEAN THAT AN ACTIVIST FOR EVER I MET HER WHEN SHE WAS PROBABLY 21 OR 22 SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

SHE'S ALWAYS BEING IN POLITICS, BUT SHE'S ALSO A SCIENTIST.

SHE SAID ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS, PART OF A GROOVE.

GOT KNOW WHAT PRICE AND SHE SAY A FANTASTIC PERSON.

CONCERNS IN AN INTELLECTUAL AND PRETTY SURE SHE'S GOING TO GOLF GOVERN MAKE EQUAL.

HE IN AN INCREDIBLY DEMOCRATIC BUT SHE'S GOING TO MAKE MAKING SURE THAT MIKAL BENEFITS THE MAJORITY OF MEXICANS FOR 80 YEARS.

WE HAD A SUPER MAJORITY OF ONE POLITICAL PARTY OR 2 POLITICAL PARTIES.

AND NOW THE OPPOSITION IS COMPLAINING THAT WE DO HAVE MY JOINT.

SO, YOU KNOW, AND FROM VERY YOUNG PARTY, MY FROM MY VERY BECAUSE WHAT'S YOUR TAKE?

WHAT WHAT DO YOU WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM FROM A NEW GOVERNMENT?

HONESTLY, REALLY PROUD TO HAVE THE FIRST WOMAN A PRECEDENT MOVING FORWARD WITH JUST WANT THE BEST FOR MEXICO.

WE HAVE COUPLE POINTS.

ONE BETTOR CONSULATES, BETTER SERVICES SEXUALLY KUZ TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT TO GET YOUR I THINK WE'RE HE TAKES ABOUT 2 WEEKS AND THEN THE THEIR EMPLOYEES PROBABLY LIKE GOING SO IT TAKES LIKE AN HOUR OR 2 HOURS TO GET YOUR PASSPORT.

WELL, ONE PROGRAMS THAT ARE FOR KIDS, THE U.S. FOR HAITIAN ESL CLASSES I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN READ THEM.

WE WE ARE VERY SHORT ON TIME WE WANTED TO TAKE YOUR TAKE ON ON ON.

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT WHAT YOU EXPECT FROM FROM THIS GOVERNMENT?

AND I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU ACTUALLY FOR JOINING US TODAY.

UNFORTUNATELY, OUR TIME VERY SHORT.

BUT THANK YOU FOR YOUR