fiction/non/fiction20 Jun 2024

S7 Ep. 38: Nicolás Medina Mora on Mexico’s First Woman President and the Country’s Political Future

Journalist and novelist Nicolás Medina Mora joins co-host V.V. Ganeshananthan and guest co-host Matt Gallagher to talk about Mexico’s president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, who will be the first woman and first Jewish person to lead the country. Medina Mora explains current president Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s history, his hold on Mexico’s political imagination, and how his connections to Sheinbaum will affect policy moving forward as he uses his last days in office to attempt 18 changes to Mexico’s constitution. Medina Mora, who is an editor at the Mexican magazine Nexos, reflects on writing about Lopez Obrador through both fiction and journalism. He elaborates on a pre-election piece he wrote for The New York Review of Books and also reads from his novel, América del Norte, in which he plays with the relationship between fiction and nonfiction.

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This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf.

Nicolás Medina Mora

Others

Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 7, Episode 32: "Claire Messud on Blurring Family History and Fiction"
Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 7, Episode 17: "Ed Park on Korea’s Past, Real and Imagined"
"Mexico’s outgoing president pushes ahead with plan to fire 1,600 judges" by Christine Murray | Financial Times
"Mexico’s bloodiest election in history sends new asylum-seekers to the US border" by Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver, Norma Galeana and Evelio Contreras| CNN
The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen

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