Mexican voters go to the polls on Sunday in a presidential election that is likely to change the country's political landscape.
James Brears – Mexico City
The two main candidates in Mexico's presidential election are former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum and former senator and tech entrepreneur Xochitl Gálvez.
Sheinbaum is the candidate for the Morena party, which was founded by current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2011 and is aligned with the Green Party.
Galvez is the candidate of the Revolutionary Institutional Party, the National Action Party and the Democratic Revolutionary Party.
Ideologically, they have nothing in common except for their desire to win the presidential election.
The third candidate is Jorge Álvarez Maínez of the Citizens' Movement.
Sheinbaum is a physicist with a PhD in environmental engineering, and Galvez founded a company focused on energy conservation, high-tech construction and security.
Elections will also be held at the same time for 128 senators, 500 members of the House of Representatives, and 20,000 local government officials, including mayors.
Women gained the right to vote 70 years ago, Masculinity The notorious movement was powerful in Mexico until 2000 through the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
Four men followed, and it's taken that long for two strong female candidates to emerge, one of whom is likely to become Mexico's next president.
