Mexico's new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has been famously quiet about her Jewish ancestry. Yet she will live and govern Latin America's second-largest economy from the Palacio Nacional, three blocks from Mexico's first synagogue and a neighborhood where Jewish immigrants first found refuge here.

Claudia Sheinbaum has been sworn in as Mexico’s first female president, riding the enthusiasm over her predecessor’s social programs but also facing challenges.

President Claudia Sheinbaum made it clear that she plans to maintain the state-oriented policies of outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.