Mexico has a fresh head of state. **Claudia Sheikh will replace Andrés Manuel López Obrador as president of this ruling country as of 2018. How can this change affect Mexico’s abroad policy and relations with individual countries? Can we anticipate a political rapprochement with the United States, or possibly the opposite? We discussed all this with Dr Joanna Gocłowska-Bolek, a Latin American female from the Faculty of Political Sciences and global Studies at the University of Warsaw.