Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that she had pressed charges against a man after being harassed in the street near Mexico’s seat of government.
Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada had announced overnight that the man had been arrested.
In a video circulating widely on social platforms, the man appeared to lean in for a kiss and touch the president’s body with his hands on Tuesday.
She gently pushed his hands away, maintaining a stiff smile as she turned to face him. She could be heard to say in part, “Don’t worry.”
On Wednesday, Sheinbaum was firm in emphasizing that this was not the first time she had suffered such harassment and that the problem went far beyond the president.
“I decided to press charges because this is something that I experienced as a woman, but that we as women experience in our country,” she said.
The incident immediately raised questions about the president’s security, but also was a high-profile example of the sort of harassment women deal with daily across Mexico.

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