‘We said zero impunity for corruption and this is proof of that’: Monday’s mañanera recapped

After a whirlwind circuit of 9 states successful 3 days, President Claudia Sheinbaum was backmost astatine the National Palace successful Mexico City connected Monday greeting for her regular property conference.

Among the issues she spoke astir astatine her mañanera were the illicit substance trade-related arrests that were announced implicit the play and the information concern successful the violence-plagued authorities of Sinaloa.

Sheinbaum stresses committedness to ‘zero impunity’ aft substance smuggling arrests 

Sheinbaum acknowledged that 14 people, including a vice admiral successful the Mexican Navy, were arrested connected suspicion of engagement successful the smuggling and illicit commercialized of fuel.

At a property league connected Sunday, Security Minister Omar García Harfuch traced the arrests backmost to the seizure of a petroleum tanker in the Gulf Coast larboard of Tampico successful March.

The tanker was carrying 10 cardinal liters of diesel, connected which a peculiar import taxation was due, but the cargo was declared to customs arsenic a petrochemical exempt from the tax.

Sheinbaum noted that businesspeople were among those arrested, and asserted that they made “very precocious profits” by selling diesel to state stations and “other substance providers” connected which they didn’t wage the applicable import tax.

“The importation of substance is allowed arsenic agelong arsenic [the importers] person an Energy Ministry licence and wage their taxes,” she said.

“… That’s wherever this probe comes from and that’s wherefore the arrests were made,” Sheinbaum said.

“What is precise important is the committedness to zero impunity,” she said.

Members of Mexico’s Navy among 14 arrested successful large substance smuggling crackdown

Sheinbaum noted that the probe is ongoing and pledged that determination volition beryllium “zero impunity,” nary substance wherever it leads.

“These arrests made by the Federal Attorney General’s Office with the enactment of the Ministry of the Navy itself and the Security Ministry … amusement that,” she said.

“Where determination is [criminal] engagement of an official, zero impunity. We said zero impunity for corruption and this is impervious of that,” Sheinbaum said.

The vice admiral who was arrested is Manuel Roberto Farías Laguna, nephew of erstwhile navy curate Rafael Ojeda Durán. The suspect’s brother, Fernando Farías Laguna, is besides accused of engagement successful the illicit substance scheme, but helium is simply a fugitive from justice.

Asked whether the “slowness” successful the probe was related successful immoderate mode to the alleged engagement of Ojeda’s nephews, Sheinbaum said it was not, highlighting that, according to Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero, the erstwhile navy curate (2018-24) filed a ailment related to substance smuggling that contributed to the probe that led to the caller arrests.

Sheinbaum pledges to “keep working” to combat insecurity successful Sinaloa 

A newsman noted that thousands of radical marched successful Culiacán, Sinaloa, connected Sunday to request bid successful the state, wherever a warfare betwixt rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel has claimed much than 1,800 lives successful the past 12 months.

“When volition bid travel to Sinaloa?” the newsman asked the president.

“There is simply a simplification [in violence],” responded Sheinbaum.

“Tomorrow, the information furniture volition spell to Culiacán. There is simply a bully effect successful August. Of course, much [good results] are needed,” she said, referring to homicide numbers.

Following a monolithic march successful Culiacán connected Sunday, president took a question from a newsman asking, “When volition bid travel to Sinaloa?” (Moisés Pablo/Cuartoscuro)

Asked what her connection was to those who marched successful the Sinaloa superior connected Sunday, Sheinbaum said:

“We’re going to support working, we’re going to support moving and we are working.”

Sheinbaum noted that members of the National Guard, the service and the navy are deployed to Sinaloa and highlighted that determination person been “a lot” of arrests successful the state.

“We’re going to bring bid to Sinaloa,” she said, noting that it was “the apprehension of a criminal” — Sinaloa Cartel person Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada — “that caused the struggle wrong this transgression group.”

Sheinbaum: Weekend circuit of 9 states was ‘very good’

Sheinbaum said that her circuit of 9 states implicit the past 3 days was “very good.”

The president visited Guanajuato, Aguascalientes, Zacatecas, Durango, Sonora, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Tamaulipas and Veracruz to contiguous authorities reports pertaining to each of those entities.

She noted that immoderate of the states she went to aren’t governed by Morena oregon the ruling party’s allies, the Green Party and the Labor Party. Guanajuato and Aguascalientes are governed by the National Action Party (PAN), portion Durango and Coahuila person Institutional Revolutionary Party governors (PRI).

Even successful the “PRIAN” states, “we did precise well,” said Sheinbaum, utilizing a hybrid acronym that is commonly utilized to disparage the PRI and the PAN.

The president during a sojourn to Saltillo, Coahuila, implicit the weekend. (Alejandro Rodríguez/Cuartoscuro)

The president noted that ample crowds came retired to perceive to her talk astatine events successful the 9 states.

“There were astir 130,000 people, counting each the events,” she said.

“What we bash is springiness a wide report. Then, we accidental however galore radical person [benefits from] the payment programs,” Sheinbaum said.

She said that she besides spoke astir “how galore homes we’re going to physique successful each entity and the [infrastructure] projects that person already begun oregon which we’re going to statesman adjacent year.”

Sheinbaum, who was accompanied astatine the events by the respective authorities governors, said that she and her authorities person bully relationships with absorption governors, “particularly with those of the PRI.”

The PRI politician of Durango, Esteban Villegas, adjacent went arsenic acold arsenic saying that helium is simply a “Claudista”https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/2025/09/06/quien-es-esteban-villegas-gobernador-de-durango-que-se-declaro-claudista-ante-la-presidenta/ — i.e., a protagonist of Claudia Sheinbaum.

The president thanked Villegas for his words, and said determination is “collaboration” and “coordination” betwixt her medication and authorities governments.

“There is designation of the enactment of the authorities of Mexico,” she added.

Sheinbaum, who delivered her archetypal yearly authorities study to the federation successful a code past Monday, besides reiterated her committedness to sojourn each 32 national entities successful what she has dubbed an “accountability tour” arsenic she approaches the archetypal day of her presidency.

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