A tragic accident in CDMX, the Kirk assassination and tariffs: Thursday’s mañanera recapped

A calamity successful Mexico City. The assassination of Charlie Kirk. The program to enforce caller tariffs connected imports from China.

President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir those issues, among others, astatine her Thursday greeting property conference.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s Sept. 11 mañanera.

Sheinbaum comments connected CDMX tragedy 

At the commencement of her property conference, Sheinbaum made little remarks astir the detonation of a state tanker successful Mexico City that had claimed 8 lives arsenic of Thursday afternoon.

She said that her medication has been moving intimately with the authorities of Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada successful the aftermath of the “terrible event.”

“We are providing each the enactment that is needed. Our solidarity to each those families who person mislaid someone. Whatever is needed, we volition beryllium precise attentive,” Sheinbaum said.

Sheinbaum condemns assassination of Charlie Kirk 

Sheinbaum besides lamented the execution of blimpish U.S. governmental activistic and Donald Trump state Charlie Kirk, who was changeable portion speaking astatine an lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University connected Wednesday.

“We’re wholly against immoderate unit and peculiarly governmental violence,” she said.

“Therefore, our condemnation … of acts of this kind,” Sheinbaum said.

Mexico is nary alien to governmental violence. The 2024 electoral play was the astir convulsive successful modern Mexican past with more than 30 candidates and governmental aspirants murdered and scores of different killings related successful 1 mode oregon different to the June 2 elections.

In 1994, statesmanlike campaigner Luis Donaldo Colosio was murdered successful Tijuana portion connected the run trail.

Will China retaliate against Mexico’s projected tariffs?

A newsman asked the president whether her authorities expects overseas countries, specified arsenic China, to retaliate against the caller tariffs it is readying to enforce connected their exports to Mexico.

On Tuesday, Sheinbaum sent a measure to Congress that seeks support to enforce tariffs of 10% to 50% connected a wide scope of imports from countries with which Mexico doesn’t person commercialized agreements.

Sheinbaum proposes tariffs targeting 1,371 merchandise categories including vehicles, apparel and electronics

On Thursday morning, she said that officials from her authorities were speaking with the ambassadors of specified countries, which see China, South Korea, India and Thailand.

“We don’t privation immoderate struggle with immoderate country,” Sheinbaum said.

“So we’re speaking with them, with the ambassador of China successful Mexico, from whom I precocious had the accidental to person his missive of credence, with South Korea,” she said.

“We’re explaining to them that it is simply a measurement that has to bash with the strengthening of our system and Plan México,” Sheinbaum said, referring to the government’s ambitious concern policy.

“What we privation is to speak, without the request to origin immoderate conflict,” she said.

The South China Morning Post reported connected Thursday that China had “condemned Mexico’s program to sharply rise import tariffs connected automobiles and different goods from countries with which Mexico does not person commercialized agreements, calling the measures discriminatory and saying they were the effect of extracurricular pressure.”

Sheinbaum: Tariffs not aimed astatine putting Mexico successful a amended presumption up of USMCA review

A newsman asked the president whether the imposition of tariffs connected countries with which Mexico doesn’t person commercialized agreements could “improve” Mexico’s presumption successful commercialized negotiations with the United States. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the escaped commercialized pact that replaced NAFTA successful 2020, is scheduled to beryllium reviewed successful 2026.

Sheinbaum said that her projected tariffs are not aimed astatine improving Mexico’s negotiating presumption successful talks with its North American commercialized partners.

Mexico’s caller tariffs are designed to fortify Mexico’s home industries alternatively than being a strategical prime up of adjacent year’s USMCA review. (Saúl López Escorcia/Presidencia)

She highlighted that she was speaking astir Plan México, import substitution and the “strengthening of nationalist industry” earlier U.S. President Donald Trump won the 2024 statesmanlike election.

The program to enforce caller tariffs is portion of a “national project” and not related to the “the negotiations with the United States,” she asserted.

Sheinbaum rehearses ‘El Grito’

Sheinbaum told reporters that she had rehearsed her transportation of “El Grito,” a reenactment of Miguel Hidalgo’s archetypal “Cry of Dolores,” which marked the commencement of the Mexican War of Independence successful 1810.

“We rehearsed yesterday due to the fact that it’s a precise important act,” she said of “El Grito,” which Mexico’s sitting president delivers from a National Palace balcony connected the nighttime of Sept. 15 arsenic a immense assemblage listens and watches connected from the Zócalo, Mexico City’s cardinal square.

“First of all, it’s a commemoration that has been carried retired successful Mexico for galore years, and secondly we observe independence,” Sheinbaum said.

“So, 1 has to presume [the duty] responsibly, good me, arsenic president,” she said.

“… That’s wherefore we rehearsed and concentrated connected this enactment that is truthful important, truthful affectional and truthful fundamental,” Sheinbaum said.