Sheinbaum rejects ‘sleepy Mexican’ trope promoted by Trump: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

At her Tuesday mañanera, held connected the last time of her archetypal twelvemonth successful office, President Claudia Sheinbaum engaged successful a robust back-and-forth with a newsman who accused her of bias.

Among different issues, she besides spoke concisely astir caller regulations aimed astatine making the proscription of liquefied petroleum state safer.

Reporter accuses Sheinbaum of ‘favoritism’ astatine her mañaneras 

Reyna Haydee Ramírez, an autarkic reporter, accused Sheinbaum of “favoritism” astatine her property conferences, asserting that she ever gives the aforesaid journalists the accidental to inquire her questions.

The accusation was that the president favors government-friendly reporters, a fig of whom regularly be the president’s mañaneras.

Sheinbaum responded by suggesting that Ramírez should number the fig of times she has fixed a newsman from the paper Reforma the accidental to inquire questions.

“It’s not arsenic if Reforma is peculiarly successful our favor, is it?” she said.

As Ramírez continued to property her point, Sheinbaum noted that she had fixed her the accidental to inquire a question and advised her not to discarded it.

“It’s not fair, it’s not democratic. … There are a batch of radical who haven’t asked a question for a agelong time,” Ramírez continued.

The enactment betwixt the president and the newsman ensued similar this:

Sheinbaum: “Look, Reyna, if it were existent that present successful ‘La mañanera‘ we lone gave the level to those who hold with us, past wherefore person we fixed the level to Reforma, to different colleagues who inquire immoderate questions they want?”

Ramírez: “Because you person to conceal [your favoritism], presidenta: 4 lackeys, 1 reporter; 5 lackeys, 1 reporter.”

Sheinbaum: “The bully happening is that you person an reply for everything. I’ll springiness you recognition for that.”

Ramírez: “Well, that’s the contented here. Let’s spot if it tin go a small much antiauthoritarian and fairer.”

Sheinbaum’s predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, besides faced accusations that helium favored government-friendly reporters astatine his greeting property conferences.

The existent president, pursuing successful AMLO’s footsteps, has attacked nationalist and planetary media outlets connected assorted occasions for what she perceived arsenic unfair oregon mendacious reporting.

After tragic accident, authorities volition enforce caller regulations for the proscription of gas 

Almost 3 weeks aft a state tanker detonation successful Mexico City that has present claimed much than 30 lives, Sheinbaum said that the authorities would denote caller regulations for the transport of LP state this Thursday.

The caller regulations volition marque the transport of the substance safer, she said, explaining that companies that transport state volition person to comply with “higher information standards.”

The detonation successful the Mexico City borough of Iztapalapa occurred aft a speeding state tanker overturned and crashed into a wall.

Reuters reported that “the incidental has stirred vexation implicit information conditions connected Mexico’s highways, prompting calls for tighter oversight of hazardous cargo transport and roadworthy maintenance.”

Sheinbaum slams ‘sleepy Mexican’ stereotype 

A newsman asked Sheinbaum astir U.S. President Donald Trump’s societal media station connected Monday that included an AI-generated video featuring U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is depicted wearing a sombrero and with a ample mustache.

“I’d alternatively not comment,” the president responded.

She subsequently railed against the infamous representation of a Mexican “with a sombrero sitting nether a cactus.”

The “sleepy Mexican” representation seeks to represent Mexicans arsenic being lazy, Sheinbaum said earlier asserting that thing could beryllium further from the truth.

“Mexican women and men are truthful hard working, … Mexican workers are truthful bully that they haven’t conscionable lifted up the system of Mexico, but that of the United States arsenic well,” she said.

“The United States wouldn’t beryllium what it is if it weren’t for the Mexican workers there, pistillate workers and antheral workers,” Sheinbaum said.

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