Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
7th November 2025
The New York Times, the Paper of Record for the Crust.
The episode immediately raised questions about the president’s security, and set off conversations among women about their own experiences.
It also caused concern among many over the apparent lack of progress for women as a whole: Ms. Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first female president, made ending violence against women a cornerstone of her campaign, but only a year after being elected, she was groped by a stranger in public.
Such harassment is not considered a crime at the federal level, Ms. Sheinbaum said Wednesday, nor is it a crime in all Mexican states — a point that Ms. Sheinbaum said she would ask officials to examine, so that all women could press charges as she had.
Can you imagine anyone groping Kamala Harris?
Neither can I.