A reform to protect Mexico’s sovereignty: Thursday’s mañanera recapped

At her Thursday greeting property conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to the United States’ designation of six Mexican cartels arsenic overseas violent organizations by announcing she was sending a law betterment connection to Congress to bolster the extortion of Mexico’s sovereignty.

Among different issues, Sheinbaum besides spoke astir United States President Donald Trump’s determination to motorboat an anti-drug campaign.

Sheinbaum’s projected betterment would adhd 2 paragraphs to the Mexican constitution’s Article 40, stating among different things, that Mexico volition not consent to involution by overseas entities successful Mexican territory, not adjacent for the intent of investigating oregon prosecuting crimes. (Daniel Augusto/Cuartoscuro)

Sheinbaum: Designation of cartels arsenic terrorists not an ‘opportunity’ for US to ‘invade our sovereignty’

On the time the United States’ designation of six Mexican cartels arsenic overseas violent organizations took effect, Sheinbaum declared that Mexico’s sovereignty is not up for negotiation.

The violent designations of the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and different Mexican transgression organizations “can’t beryllium an accidental for the United States to invade our sovereignty,” she said.

“They tin sanction cartels arsenic they choose, but with Mexico it’s collaboration and coordination, ne'er subordination, nary interference oregon invasion,” Sheinbaum said.

In that context, the president announced she was submitting a law betterment connection to Congress.

Sheinbaum work retired a projected summation to Article 40 of the Mexican constitution:

Sheinbaum’s law betterment connection seems to beryllium preparing for the anticipation of U.S. President Donald Trump justifying unauthorized incursions onto Mexican ungraded successful the sanction of hunting down cartels. (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0)

“The radical of Mexico, nether nary circumstance, volition judge interventions, interference oregon immoderate different enactment from overseas that is harmful to the integrity, independency and sovereignty of the nation, specified arsenic coups, interference successful elections oregon usurpation of Mexican territory whether it’s by land, water, oversea oregon aerial space.”

“Nor volition they let involution successful investigations oregon immoderate pursuit [of a suspect] without the authorization and explicit collaboration of the Mexican authorities wrong the model of applicable laws.”

Sheinbaum besides work retired a projected summation to Article 19 of the Mexican constitution.

“The astir terrible imaginable punishment arsenic good arsenic the precautionary measurement of preventive situation volition beryllium imposed connected immoderate nationalist oregon foreigner progressive successful the manufacture, distribution, transfer, transport oregon illicit admittance to nationalist territory of weapons, and connected immoderate foreigner who carries retired activities connected the borderline of the instrumentality associated with the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs of nonfiction 40 of this constitution.”

Therefore, immoderate overseas agents — from the CIA oregon DEA, for illustration — who participate Mexico without the authorization of the Mexican authorities would beryllium taxable to arrest, imprisonment earlier proceedings and harsh penalties if convicted.

“These are the 2 modifications to the Constitution that we’re sending [to Congress],” Sheinbaum said.

“What does this mean? We collaborate, we coordinate, we enactment unneurotic [with the United States], but determination is nary interference, nary usurpation of sovereignty,” she said, adding that “this is what we privation to beryllium made clear” successful airy of the United States government’s designation of six Mexican cartels arsenic overseas violent organizations.

Sheinbaum besides made it wide that Mexico, similar the United States, is determined to combat cause trafficking, organized transgression groups and violence.

She besides said that the Mexican authorities would broaden its lawsuit against U.S. weapon manufacturers and distributors successful information of the designation of six cartels arsenic violent groups.

“There volition beryllium a broadening of this lawsuit owed to the complicity [with terrorists] of those that merchantability weapons that are brought into our country,” Sheinbaum said.

In addressing Mexico’s caller nationalist anti-drug campaign, Sheinbaum made definite to constituent retired — arsenic she’s done earlier — that Mexico doesn’t person a fentanyl situation the mode the United States does. The caller campaign, she said, is to effort and forestall a situation here.

Sheinbaum responds to Trump’s determination to motorboat anti-drug campaign

A time aft Trump thanked her for giving him the thought to motorboat an anti-drug campaign, Sheinbaum returned the favor.

“I evidently convey him for the mention,” she said.

“I deliberation that it is thing important,” Sheinbaum continued, referring to the U.S. anti-drug campaign.

“We person ever said that the trafficking of drugs to the United States has to bash with cause usage successful the United States, that it’s not conscionable an contented for Mexico. … There wouldn’t beryllium organisation of drugs to the United States if determination wasn’t cause usage successful the United States,” she said.

The determination to motorboat an anti-drug run is “recognition from the United States president of what we telephone attraction to the causes,” Sheinbaum said.

“… It’s designation that they person to be to the contented of cause usage there,” she said.

“And I deliberation that’s precise important. … So I deliberation this announcement that President Trump made yesterday is precise important,” Sheinbaum said.

Government seeks statement with state stations to bounds profits

Mexicans person been facing higher prices astatine the pump since past year. (Victoria Valtierra/Cuartoscuro)

A newsman asked the president whether the authorities was prepared to found a terms headdress for gasoline — perchance 24 pesos per liter — arsenic portion of efforts to support ostentation nether control.

“This contented with the terms of gasoline — what is not regulated, let’s say, is the profits of a backstage company,” Sheinbaum said.

“The Pemex state stations are successful information Pemex franchises, they’ve been operated privately for a agelong time, and Pemex besides sells [fuel] to non-Pemex state stations, and isolated from that, determination is imported gasoline,” she said.

“Before entering into a strategy of fixing prices, we deliberation that we tin scope a voluntary statement [with state stations]. We did it [with the backstage sector] for the basal handbasket [of indispensable goods],” Sheinbaum said.

“So archetypal we privation a voluntary agreement, successful which they themselves, the state presumption owners, mean the magnitude of pesos they gain for each liter they sell. So that is what we are moving on,” she said.

“Ideally what we privation is this voluntary agreement. If the voluntary statement doesn’t happen, past we could deliberation astir different ways, but I judge — due to the fact that of the meetings we’ve already had — that it is imaginable to scope one,” Sheinbaum said.

“… We inactive person adjacent week to seal [the deal] and everything is going well, truthful I expect that we’ll beryllium capable to motion it precise soon,” she said.

Mexican and US forces to collaborate much intimately connected cross-border information issues 

Sheinbaum said that Defense Minister Ricardo Trevilla Trejo and General Gregory M. Guillot, Commander of the U.S. Northern Command, had a “very good, precise respectful conversation.”

A subordinate of the Mexican subject inspects cars approaching the Mexican broadside of the Mexican-U.S. borderline successful Ciuadad Juáarez earlier this month. (Carlos Sánchez Colunga/Cuartoscuro)

The U.S. Northern Command said successful a statement connected Wednesday that the 2 men “met precocious to sermon practice to summation information on the Mexico and U.S. border.”

“The speech resulted successful the formulation of a Joint Statement of Understanding regarding cooperative activities on the border, to see coordinated patrols connected their respective sides of the border, accrued accusation sharing, and methods for contiguous communications,” the connection said.

“The speech and agreements stress that each state volition respect the sovereignty of the other,” it added.

Sheinbaum said that U.S. information forces could stock accusation with Mexican forces astir arms trafficking, for example, “or vice versa successful the look of different conditions,” specified arsenic the northward flows of drugs oregon migrants.

“Above all, connection and coordination successful these cases was spoken about” during the gathering betwixt Trevilla and Guillot, she said.

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