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Panama's president-elect Jose Raul Mulino says he is "nobody's puppet," a reference to former president Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014), whom he replaced as a candidate after being convicted of money laundering and taking refuge in the Nicaraguan embassy. "I'm not here because someone put me here," he says to cheers from the crowd during his victory speech at a Panama City hotel. SOUNDBITE
The runner-up presidential candidate of the Movimiento Otro Camino (Another Way Movement), Ricardo Lombana, recognizes Jose Raul Mulino as the winner of this year's presidential elections in Panama. "To all of our polling station representatives who are watching this, do not move or leave your polling stations," he says, "this isn't over yet." SOUNDBITE
Jose Raul Mulino is sworn in as President of Panama during a ceremony at the Atlapa Convention Center in the capital. Mulino has promised to stop the passage of migrants through the dangerous Darien Gap and to revive the Panamanian economy dependent on the interoceanic canal. IMAGES TO COMPLETE VIDI362A73T_EN
Thousands of supporters of presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum cheer in celebration at Mexico City's emblematic Zocalo square as the National Electoral Institute (Instituto Nacional Electoral, INE) announces her win as Mexico's new president-elect. Ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, a former mayor of Mexico City and a scientist by training, is Mexico's the first female president-elect -- a milestone in a country plagued by rampant criminal and gender-based violence. IMAGES
Presidential candidate and former president of Panama Martin Torrijos casts his vote in the country's presidential elections. IMAGES