Sheinbaum’s 1-year ‘accountability tour’ to wrap up with Zócalo event: Monday’s mañanera recapped

Monday is the penultimate time of the archetypal twelvemonth of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s six-year term.

At her property league connected Monday morning, she spoke astir a “rare” incidental astatine Mexico City airdrome and the Mexico City-Toluca railroad, among different topics, specified arsenic Mexican corn.

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Sheinbaum besides commented concisely connected her “unprecedented” nationalist “accountability tour.”

CDMX aerial postulation power operation was struck by lightning twice

Sheinbaum acknowledged that the aerial postulation power operation astatine the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) was struck by lightning connected Saturday — twice, successful fact, according to the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT).

The archetypal lightning onslaught caused an electrical responsibility successful the power operation and 1 runway astatine the AICM was subsequently closed for astir 2 hours connected Saturday night, SICT said successful a statement.

“During this period, the different runway continued to operate. As a effect of the meteorological conditions, immoderate flights were diverted to different airports,” the ministry said.

“Later, a bolt of lightning struck the power operation again. However, acknowledgment to the redundant exigency connection systems, astatine nary clip was interaction with craft lost,” SICT said.

“Between 20:01 and 20:33, departures were suspended to springiness precedence to landings. … From 20:33, mean operations were reestablished with the resumption of take-offs,” the ministry said.

Sheinbaum said that the aerial postulation power tower’s systems had to beryllium rebooted aft the archetypal lightning strike.

“And for safety, what is done successful these cases is to halt [flight] operations,” she said.

Asked whether the interruption to operations could person been avoided with “better infrastructure,” Sheinbaum noted that the aerial postulation power operation has a lightning rod.

“It has everything, but this is thing that is intolerable to diagnose,” she said.

“It’s not that it tin beryllium avoided, but alternatively determination are protocols successful spot for erstwhile lightning strikes [the aerial postulation power tower]. It is precise antithetic oregon uncommon for it to happen, but if it does occur, determination is an exigency protocol to forestall immoderate accidents,” Sheinbaum said.

CDMX-Toluca bid to beryllium afloat operational by precocious 2025 oregon aboriginal 2026

Sheinbaum noted that the Mexico City-Toluca commuter train, “El Insurgente,” has been conducting proceedings runs to the Observatorio presumption successful the nationalist capital.

The Mexico City-Toluca commuter bid — known arsenic “El Insurgente” — volition link the Metropolitan Area of ​​Toluca successful México authorities with occidental Mexico City. (Rogelio Morales/Cuartoscuro)

Construction of the railroad began successful 2014 during the presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto, but the archetypal (partial) work didn’t tally until 2023. As of September 2024, question betwixt Toluca and the Santa Fe presumption successful Mexico City has been possible, but the Vasco de Quiroga and Observatorio stations successful the superior remained retired of action.

Sheinbaum said that the proceedings runs to the Observatorio presumption — wherever passengers volition beryllium capable to transportation to the Observatorio metro presumption — volition past astir a month.

She said that the latest accusation she received was that rider services betwixt the Zinacantepec presumption adjacent Toluca and the Observatorio presumption would commence during “the last days of December,” oregon successful aboriginal January 2026.

The railroad is “practically” finished, Sheinbaum said earlier noting that 11 years person passed since operation archetypal began.

Sheinbaum’s ‘accountability’ circuit nears its end

Sheinbaum noted that she has present visited 30 Mexican states connected her “accountability tour” aft spending clip successful Chihuahua, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco and Colima during the past 3 days.

After delivering her archetypal yearly authorities study to the federation successful a 70-minute code connected Sept. 1, the president commenced a speaking circuit of the state to update residents successful each authorities connected authorities projects and initiatives successful their section area.

Sheinbaum said that she volition spell to Morelos connected Tuesday to implicit her circuit of each 31 states, portion she volition besides present a code successful Mexico City’s cardinal square, the Zócalo, this Sunday.

“It has genuinely been a precise motivating experience,” she said of her nationalist tour, adding that “a batch of people” attended her events crossed Mexico.

The president during a sojourn to Saltillo, Coahuila, connected Sept. 7. (Alejandro Rodríguez/Cuartoscuro)

“What we bash is supply a study connected payment programs … and infrastructure projects … that we’re doing successful each entity of the republic,” Sheinbaum said.

“The information is it has been a precise moving experience,” she said.

“And I deliberation each those who person attended, adjacent to fractional a cardinal radical person attended the … [events]. It’s unprecedented due to the fact that it’s the archetypal clip that a president, a presidenta successful this case, has fixed a study successful each state,” Sheinbaum said.

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