Sheinbaum denies security policy shift after US ambassador praises ‘bold change’: Wednesday’s mañanera recapped

The national government’s information strategy and h2o concession irregularities were among the topics President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir astatine her Wednesday greeting property conference.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s Sept. 24 mañanera.

Sheinbaum responds to US ambassador’s praise for her information strategy 

A newsman noted that the United States Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson commented connected the Mexican government’s information strategy connected Tuesday.

Johnson, who was sworn successful arsenic U.S. ambassador to Mexico successful May, said that the Sheinbaum medication has made a “bold change” successful information strategy successful Mexico by ramping up operations against cause cartels.

His remarks came during a league successful Washington, D.C., organized by The Heritage Foundation and the America First Policy Institute.

There doesn’t look to beryllium immoderate publically disposable video oregon transcript of Johnson’s remarks, but according to a Reforma paper report, the ambassador spoke positively astir information collaboration betwixt Mexico and the United States, and declared that “a caller epoch of practice betwixt our governments” has commenced.

Johnson besides compared the existent information strategy successful Mexico to the “more passive” attack of the medication led by erstwhile president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who championed a alleged “hugs, not bullets” strategy.

Asked astir the ambassador’s remarks connected Wednesday morning, Sheinbaum rejected that her authorities has made large modifications to the information strategy of AMLO’s administration.

“You already cognize that erstwhile they privation to differentiate us, we don’t let it due to the fact that we are a project,” she said, a tacit acknowledgement that the existent Morena enactment authorities represents continuity with the erstwhile Morena enactment government.

“There is an intention, I don’t cognize whether it is of the ambassador, I’m not going to property it to him, … but determination is an volition of the commentators from … [Mexico] to make the information truthful that I could say: ‘No, we are different,'” Sheinbaum said.

“What are they looking for? A part wrong our movement,” she said, referring to the Morena enactment and the alleged Fourth Transformation governmental task she leads.

“There volition ne'er beryllium that because, successful addition, we admit the enactment of [former] president López Obrador successful each its magnitude,” Sheinbaum said.

“… I wouldn’t accidental determination is simply a favoritism [in information policy]. Rather, we made the determination for determination to beryllium greater probe and quality from the Ministry of Security and Civilian Protection,” she said.

“… The attraction to the causes [of crime] continues,” Sheinbaum said, referring to the “hugs” facet of the information strategy implemented by AMLO, which includes payment payments and societal programs.

She besides said that determination is present “perhaps greater coordination” connected information issues betwixt authorities of antithetic levels of government.

“It’s a adjacent signifier [of the information strategy],” Sheinbaum said, adding that determination are nary grounds to accidental determination is simply a “rupture” with AMLO’s information attack oregon a “new strategy.”

“We’re simply strengthening definite areas that we felt needed to beryllium strengthened,” she said.

Since aboriginal successful Sheinbaum’s administration, determination person been claims that her authorities is abandoning the “no bullets” portion of AMLO’s strategy due to the fact that it appears to beryllium much prepared to combat occurrence with fire, truthful to speak, arsenic it seeks to combat cause cartels and the narcotics they transport to the United States.

Since President Donald Trump took bureau successful January, the United States’ unit connected Mexico to bash truthful has intensified, and Sheinbaum — who is determined to support commercialized with the U.S. arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable — is wide considered to beryllium receptive to U.S. demands, though she stresses that she ever acts successful Mexico’s champion interests and often defends Mexican sovereignty.

In summation to arresting implicit 30,000 alleged perpetrators of high-impact crimes successful the past year, the Mexican authorities has seized ample quantities of narcotics, dismantled clandestine cause labs, confiscated much than 16,000 firearms and sent 55 cartel figures to the United States to look justice.

Sheinbaum, on with Security Minister Omar García Harfuch, has taken large strides to amended information during her archetypal twelvemonth successful office. (Cuartoscuro)

Murders are down and information connected cause seizures and migrant arrests astatine the Mexico-U.S. borderline bespeak that the quantity of narcotics being shipped north, and the fig of migrants attempting to participate the U.S., person declined.

While the United States continues to enforce alleged “fentanyl tariffs” connected imports from Mexico that don’t comply with USMCA rules, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said successful Mexico City earlier this period that the existent information practice betwixt the United States and Mexico is the “closest … we person ever had, possibly with immoderate country.”

In contrast, the United States’ erstwhile ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, asserted past November that the “hugs, not bullets” information strategy failed, and blamed AMLO for a breakdown successful bilateral information cooperation. Salazar was ambassador for much than 3 years portion Joe Biden was successful the White House.

‘You can’t bash everything successful 6 years’

A newsman asked the president however the fig of “inconsistencies” successful h2o concessions successful Mexico was capable to turn to much than 52,000, a fig cited by a elder National Water Commission (Conagua) authoritative successful an interrogation with the paper El Universal.

Conagua’s lawman manager for h2o management, Mauricio Rodríguez Alonso, said that the national bureau had detected cases successful which h2o was being exploited by radical whose concessions were nary longer valid, arsenic good arsenic cases successful which h2o was being utilized for purposes unrelated to the applicable concession.

Sheinbaum said that during a play of “many years,” erstwhile governments “didn’t want” to enactment the concessions “in order.”

Inside Conagua’s quest to destruct h2o theft successful Mexico

She said that AMLO told her that his authorities didn’t person the clip to bash a batch of things helium would person liked to person done.

“Just imagine, 36 years of neoliberalism, positive the corruption that came before,” Sheinbaum said, referring successful the archetypal lawsuit to the play betwixt 1982 and 2018.

“You can’t bash everything successful six years,” she said.

“So we, I, took the decision, erstwhile we arrived to enactment the concessions successful order. And the information is that [Conagua director] Efraín [Morales], Mauricio and the full [Conagua] squad has done an bonzer job,” Sheinbaum said.