Canada tariffs and Mexican artificial intelligence research: Friday’s mañanera recapped

President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Friday greeting property league had a colorful and melodious start, with musicians and dancers joining Oaxaca Governor Salomón Jara to beforehand the Guelaguetza festival, which is taking spot successful Oaxaca this month.

One of the dancers was wearing a mojiganga, a gigantic puppet figure that includes an oversized head.

Con todo el folclor, colores, sabores y ritmo del estado de Oaxaca, hoy en la #MañaneraDelPueblo, se anunció La Guelaguetza 2025, que se realizará del 21 al 28 de julio.
Esta vez, la celebración va por una gran causa, ya que parte de los ingresos se destinarán al apoyo de… pic.twitter.com/cmRNJswcFd

— Ernestina Godoy Ramos (@ErnestinaGodoy_) July 11, 2025

Later successful the property conference, Sheinbaum responded to questions connected a scope of topics, including trade, artificial quality and her speechmaking habits.

‘We don’t hold with the tariffs,’ says Sheinbaum

A newsman asked the president astir the 35% tariff that United States President Donald Trump said helium would enforce connected imports from Canada starting Aug. 1.

Sheinbaum archetypal noted that a Mexican delegation led by Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard was successful Washington, D.C., for talks connected Friday with U.S. officials astir the “global agreement” covering security, migration and commercialized that she projected to Trump past month.

Mexico is seeking to triumph an exemption from, oregon astatine slightest a simplification of, the tariffs that presently use to Mexico’s steel, aluminum and conveyance exports to the United States.

Sheinbaum declared that “obviously, we don’t hold with the tariffs.”

That remark seemingly applied to the duties the United States has imposed connected imports from Mexico and Canada, arsenic good arsenic the 35% tariff Trump said helium would enforce connected Canadian products starting Aug. 1.

“We judge that the champion mode to vie … is by strengthening the commercialized agreement,” Sheinbaum said, referring to the USMCA, which is up for reappraisal successful 2026.

The strengthening of the three-way pact volition let North America “to vie a batch amended with different regions of the world,” she said.

“That has ever been our position,” Sheinbaum added.

Strengthening the U.S.-Mexico-Canada escaped commercialized woody is successful the champion involvement of North America, Sheinbaum said. (Rogelio Morales/Cuartoscuro)

Asked whether Mexico would ever favour a trilateral escaped commercialized statement successful North America, the president responded:

“Yes, the 3 countries being unneurotic strengthens us. Our presumption has adjacent been to grow [the USMCA] to truly marque [the continent of] America an economic, taste and societal powerfulness successful each senses.”

Sheinbaum added that Mexico’s “maxim is practice for development.”

“Of people President Trump has his ain vision, and we’re ever going to question to support Mexico, successful the archetypal spot — jobs and the radical of Mexico,” she said.

Sheinbaum: National Artificial Intelligence Laboratory volition absorption connected assorted issues

Sheinbaum reminded reporters that establishing a National Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is 1 of the objectives of the national government’s Plan México economical initiative.

She said that José Antonio Peña Merino, caput of the government’s Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency, and the national curate for science, humanities, exertion and innovation, Rosaura Ruiz, are moving toward that goal.

Minister of Science, Humanities, Technology and Information Rosaura Ruiz volition enactment with telecommunications main José Antonio Peña Merino to motorboat Mexico’s nationalist AI lab, Sheinbaum said. (Cuartoscuro)

The laboratory, Sheinbaum said, volition person “many aspects.”

It volition absorption connected education, technological development, the improvement of open-source programs and assorted different issues, she said.

“We’ll contiguous it present astatine a aboriginal date,” Sheinbaum said.

In April, she said that experts successful a scope of technological disciplines would enactment unneurotic astatine the National Artificial Intelligence Laboratory connected strategical projects. Sheinbaum said astatine the clip that seismology, meteorology and medicine would beryllium among the topics AI researchers would absorption on.

The authorities has not said erstwhile it experts the laboratory to commencement operations.

Sheinbaum has finished Merkel’s autobiography. What’s she speechmaking now?

Almost 3 months aft Sheinbaum revealed that she was speechmaking the autobiography of erstwhile German chancellor Angela Merkel, a newsman asked the president whether she had finished the publication and whether she learnt immoderate “lesson” from it.

Sheinbaum said that she had finished speechmaking Merkel’s publication (called “Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021″) and noted that the erstwhile German person recounts her “personal story” increasing up successful East Germany and writes astir her governmental vocation including the “important decisions” she took arsenic chancellor.

She reiterated that is not politically aligned with Merkel, but described her idiosyncratic communicative arsenic “very interesting.”

La Malinche, a pivotal fig successful Mexican history, is the absorption of Sheinbaum’s existent read. (File photo)

Sheinbaum revealed that she is present speechmaking a publication called “Una patria con madre” (A Homeland with a Mother), a non-fiction enactment astir La Malinche, the Indigenous pistillate who was an interpreter, advisor and companion to Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.

The publication is “very interesting, and we’re going to talk astir it this twelvemonth due to the fact that it’s the Year of the Indigenous Woman,” she said.

“… We person a moving radical of anthropologists, historians and philosophers … [focused on] this idiosyncratic who is truthful important and truthful maligned and whose designation is precise important,” Sheinbaum said.

She said that aft the decision of the celebrations marking the 700th day of the founding of Tenochtitlán, “we’re going to commencement speaking astir Malinche.”

“That’s wherefore I’m speechmaking that book,” Sheinbaum said.

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