Sheinbaum confirms Rubio visit for security talks next week: Friday’s mañanera recapped

The upcoming sojourn to Mexico of United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio was a cardinal absorption of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Friday greeting property conference.

It volition beryllium Rubio’s archetypal travel to Mexico since helium became the United States’ apical diplomat.

Sheinbaum was asked astir the docket for her gathering with the 54-year-old Trump medication authoritative arsenic good arsenic the caller bilateral information statement (or “understanding”) that Mexico and the United States person been negotiating successful caller months.

As usual, the president’s mañanera was held astatine the National Palace, wherever the gathering with Rubio volition instrumentality spot adjacent week.

Sheinbaum volition conscionable with Marco Rubio successful CDMX connected Sept. 3

Sheinbaum told reporters that Rubio is coming to Mexico adjacent Wednesday Sept. 3.

“He’ll beryllium present and we’re going to person a gathering with him,” she said 4 days aft she told the property corps that it was apt Rubio would travel to Mexico adjacent week to motion a caller bilateral information agreement.

Sheinbaum confirmed Rubio would sojourn Mexico connected Wednesday, Sept. 3. (Michael Vadon/Flickr)

Sheinbaum said connected Friday that the statement — oregon “understanding” arsenic she is present calling it connected the proposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — wouldn’t needfully beryllium signed during the caput of state’s visit.

The U.S. Department of State announced connected Thursday that Rubio would question to Mexico and Ecuador betwixt Sept. 2 and 4 “to beforehand cardinal U.S. priorities.”

A connection from a Department of State spokesperson said those priorities see “swift and decisive enactment to dismantle cartels, halt fentanyl trafficking, extremity amerciable immigration, trim the commercialized deficit, and beforehand economical prosperity and antagonistic malign other continental actors.”

“The Secretary’s 4th travel to our hemisphere demonstrates the United States’ unwavering committedness to support its borders, neutralize narco-terrorist threats to our homeland, and guarantee a level playing tract for American businesses,” the connection said.

“Secretary Rubio’s engagements volition deepen bilateral ties with Mexico and Ecuador and foster broader load sharing crossed our region,” it concluded.

Asked astir the docket for her gathering with the Miami-born erstwhile senator, Sheinbaum said that the caput of authorities is coming to Mexico to reason talks related to the caller information “understanding.”

“And we’re going to instrumentality the accidental to amusement him everything we’re doing successful Mexico successful galore areas, and successful peculiar connected the contented of security,” she said.

Sheinbaum said that the caller information pact “wouldn’t needfully beryllium signed” adjacent week due to the fact that “everything that has to bash with bilateral relations has its protocols.”

She said that determination is thing “very new” successful the “understanding,” isolated from “some things that person to bash with associated investigations into fentanyl precursors.”

The knowing includes caller provisions related to associated investigations to hint fentanyl precursors, Sheinbaum said. (DEA)

“How bash fentanyl precursors arrive? For example,” Sheinbaum said.

She besides said determination are “some different [new] frameworks for collaboration and coordination, wrong the model of respect for our sovereignty.”

Sheinbaum indicated that the caller Mexico-U.S. information “understanding” acknowledges the value of campaigns to forestall cause use, and notes that the U.S. authorities has to enactment to “avoid the trafficking of weapons” to Mexico.

The president antecedently revealed that the bilateral pact is “fundamentally” based connected “sovereignty, communal trust, territorial respect … and coordination without subordination.”

The Mexico-U.S. information narration is presently governed by the Bicentennial Framework for Security, Public Health and Safe Communities. That statement took effect successful precocious 2021, superseding the Mérida Initiative.

Agreement? Understanding? ‘It’s the aforesaid thing,’ says Sheinbaum 

A newsman asked the president what the quality is betwixt a information statement and a information understanding.

“It’s the aforesaid thing,” Sheinbaum responded.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs made the clarification,” she said, explaining that determination are a assortment of “categories” of bilateral pacts, each with a antithetic name.

“Some adjacent request support from the [respective] senates, similar the USMCA, for example,” Sheinbaum said.

The caller knowing is akin to the Bicentennial Framework, a bilateral information statement signed successful 2021, the president said. (Presidencia)

She reiterated that the caller information “understanding” with the United States is “the aforesaid thing” arsenic the statement she has precocious been speaking about.

“The Foreign Affairs Ministry conscionable clarified what its sanction is,” Sheinbaum said.

“Let’s spot if you tin inquire the overseas affairs curate for the nonstop sanction of this agreement, this knowing that we’ve been negotiating for respective months,” she said.

Asked what is the quality betwixt the new, soon-to-be signed “understanding” and the Bicentennial Framework that took effect successful 2021, Sheinbaum said the erstwhile is “very similar” to the latter.

“They are high-level agreements for information issues and different issues,” she said.

‘They projected greater involution successful our state and we said no’

Sheinbaum said that the United States asked for things “that weren’t acceptable for us” during the negotiations for the caller information understanding.

She said that her authorities besides projected things that the United States thought “shouldn’t beryllium successful this document.”

Pushed arsenic to what U.S. proposals were unacceptable for Mexico, Sheinbaum said:

“They projected greater involution successful our state and we said no.”

US drone that flew implicit cartel stronghold came astatine Mexico’s request, information curate says

Sheinbaum revealed successful May that she had rejected an connection from U.S. President Donald Trump to nonstop the U.S. Army into Mexico to combat cause cartels. She has repeatedly said that her authorities volition ne'er judge immoderate benignant of overseas involution successful Mexico, though it has allowed the U.S. to alert drones implicit the state to spy connected cause cartels, including successful a ngo earlier this month.

On Friday, Sheinbaum said that her authorities volition “never motion thing that, from our perspective, violates our sovereignty oregon our territory.”

“They tin person the volition to bash it, but we told them no,” she said.

“It’s the aforesaid arsenic successful the calls I’ve had with President Trump, wherever helium says: ‘Don’t you privation america to assistance you with the U.S. army?’ And I archer him, ‘No President Trump, that are galore different forms of collaboration and cooperation, but not that.”