Less violence, more tariffs and the 11-year-old Ayotzinapa case: Friday’s mañanera recapped

Murders, tariffs, Mexico’s narration with China and the 11-year-old Ayotzinapa lawsuit involving the disappearance of 43 students were among the topics President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir astatine her Friday greeting property conference.

Later connected Friday, Sheinbaum traveled to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, wherever she delivered yet different code connected her nationwide “accountability tour.”

Thursday was Mexico’s slightest convulsive time successful years

Just earlier the extremity of her mañanera, Sheinbaum acknowledged that 37 homicides were recorded connected Thursday.

“Yesterday was the lowest fig of homicides for astatine slightest 10 years, I think,” she said earlier conceding that she wasn’t definite that Thursday was really the slightest convulsive time successful a decade.

“Let america know,” Sheinbaum said.

In fact, the execution number connected Thursday was the lowest fig of homicides connected a azygous time successful Mexico since December 2018, oregon astir 7 years, according to media reports. Twelve of Mexico’s 32 national entities reported nary homicides connected Thursday, portion Guanajuato recorded the highest fig with six.

At Friday’s mañanera, President Sheinbaum again insisted that her projected tariffs connected Asian cars were based connected strengthening the Mexican system and had thing to bash with “coercion” from the U.S. But it’s existent that her tariff announcement astatine slightest coincided with ongoing unit from U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Sheinbaum played down the value of the (comparably) debased fig of homicides connected Thursday, a fig 46% beneath the regular mean successful the archetypal 8 months of 2025.

She indicated that she was much funny successful seeing the homicide information for the full period of September, earlier noting that the fig of murders successful August was 32% little than September 2024, the past period of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s presidency.

In the archetypal 8 months of 2025, the mean regular homicide complaint was astir 25% little than the regular mean during 2024.

Sheinbaum has attributed the diminution successful homicides to the effectiveness of her government’s information strategy. On Friday morning, she said that “this idea” that not each homicides are being reported by the national authorities is “false.”

‘We person precise bully relations with China,’ and tariffs are ‘a substance of strengthening our economy’

Sheinbaum noted that Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard met connected Thursday with China’s ambassador to Mexico.

The gathering took spot 2 weeks aft the president sent a connection to Congress to instrumentality tariffs of up to 50% connected a wide scope of goods from China and different countries with which Mexico doesn’t person commercialized agreements. This week, China’s Commerce Ministry initiated an probe into the higher tariffs Mexico intends to implement.

Sheinbaum said that her authorities is proposing “high-level” talks with China connected the issue, but she didn’t bespeak immoderate willingness to see easing the projected duties.

“Why was this determination taken? In [a play of] astir 4 years, imports to our state [from China] accrued by astir 83% and [our] exports besides increased. And what we want, … [with] Plan México, is to nutrient much successful Mexico successful bid to person a commercialized equilibrium wherever imports are not adjacent to exports,” she said, explaining that the extremity is to support an wide commercialized surplus.

“At the infinitesimal we person a affirmative equilibrium of trade,” Sheinbaum said earlier noting that the surplus is lone “small.”

“… We privation it to beryllium bigger,” she said.

Later successful the time the president traveled to the borderline metropolis of Ciudad Juárez arsenic portion of her run to present her Informe successful idiosyncratic crossed the nation. (Pedro Anza/Cuartoscuro.com)

“… And that is the nonsubjective of the [proposed] tariffs,” Sheinbaum said, asserting that they are not specifically targeted astatine China arsenic they volition use to each countries with which Mexico doesn’t person commercialized agreements.

“Obviously we’re funny successful having dialog [with those countries],” she said, adding that her authorities wants China to “understand” Mexico’s “situation.”

China has asserted that Mexico is acting “under coercion” from the United States “to constrain China,” but Mexican officials accidental that the superior goals of the projected tariffs are to support Mexican manufacture and trim reliance connected imports.

However, Mexico has faced unit from the United States, and Canada, implicit its commercialized narration with China arsenic good arsenic increasing Chinese concern here. The determination to enforce higher tariffs connected imports from China, on with immoderate different authorities measures and definite remarks by Mexican officials, bespeak that Mexico is so yielding to that unit — astatine slightest to immoderate grade — up of the 2026 reappraisal of the USMCA escaped commercialized pact.

Despite Mexico’s little than uber-friendly cognition toward the East Asian economical powerhouse, Sheinbaum asserted connected Friday that “we person precise bully relations with China.”

The determination to enforce caller tariffs connected imports from that state and others is simply “a substance of strengthening our economy,” she said.

Sheinbaum restates her committedness to ‘truth and justice’ successful Ayotzinapa case 

On the 11th day of the disappearance of 43 teachers’ assemblage students successful Guerrero, Sheinbaum reiterated her committedness to uncovering the “truth” and achieving “justice” successful the unresolved case.

“We’re moving connected that,” she said. “There is simply a caller peculiar prosecutor.  We person meetings with the families, with the mothers and fathers of the Ayotzinapa students.”

“Our committedness is to bash everything successful our powerfulness to scope the information and justice, and to find the young men,” Sheinbaum said.

The remains of conscionable 3 of the 43 students person been found. The young men were abducted successful Iguala, Guerrero, connected Sept. 26, 2014, and presumably killed immoderate clip aft that.

The lawsuit — successful which the army, municipal constabulary and a transgression pack called Guerreros Unidos were allegedly progressive — shocked Mexico and triggered immense protests against the authorities of then-president Enrique Peña Nieto.

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])