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Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during her opening campaign rally at the Zocalo in Mexico City, March 1, 2024. If elected, Sheinbaum would be Mexico's first leader with a Jewish background in a country that’s home to nearly 100 million Catholics. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

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Mexico's likely next president has a Jewish origin. Is that relevant in a deeply Catholic country?
By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ - Associated Press
Mon,04/22/24-7:09AM , 54 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — By mid-2024, Claudia Sheinbaum will most likely become Mexico’s first female president. She would also be its first leader with a Jewish background in a country that’s home to nearly 100 million Catholics.
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Claudia Poblete poses for a photo in front of a mural depicting the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo group, at the former Navy School of Mechanics, known as ESMA, now a human rights museum, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, March 22, 2024. Poblete is one of the 133 “recovered grandchildren” of Argentina. Her biological family found her years after she was abducted as an infant during the country’s military dictatorship. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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Abducted as babies in the 1970s, these Argentines found a way toward their true identity
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Mon,03/25/24-7:17AM , 59 Reads
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Claudia Poblete can’t help it. On certain days, as she passes in front of a church, she automatically crosses herself while her children gaze at her with confusion.

She didn’t raise them as Catholics — as she was — because her spirituality has shifted.
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Members of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo protest in San Martin Square in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 21, 1977. Week after week, since April 1977, the mothers of disappeared children have gathered at the square that provided the group with its name, despite being discredited during the dictatorship as “crazy” and “terrorists.” (AP Photo, File)

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Their children disappeared in Argentina's dictatorship. These mothers have looked for them since
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Thu,03/21/24-7:03AM , 70 Reads
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Forty-seven years ago, before her hair turned white and she had no need of a wheelchair to march around Argentina’s most iconic square, Nora Cortiñas made a promise to her son who disappeared: She would search for him until her last breath.
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A mural of Argentine former first lady María Eva Duarte de Perón, better known as Eva Perón, or Evita, depicting her with a saint's halo, adorns a wall inside the Peron Peron restaurant in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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A prayer for Evita: Here's why many Argentines are devoted to a first lady who died in 1952
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Mon,02/19/24-7:12AM , 143 Reads
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Early every morning, just as she reaches her workplace at a labor union in Buenos Aires, Ángeles Celerier heads to the chapel and prays to Saint Cajetan, Saint Teresa and Eva Perón.

Perón — unlike the others — has not been canonized by the Vatican, but this doesn’t matter to Celerier.
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