Cuban doctors don’t take Mexican jobs, says Sheinbaum: Thursday’s mañanera recapped

A divers scope of issues were discussed astatine President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Thursday greeting property conference, including the gruesome Teuchtitlán lawsuit (see MND’s latest study here) and the latest World Happiness Report (see our nonfiction here).

Reporters besides asked questions astir Cuban doctors successful Mexico, the soon-to-be enforced prohibition connected junk nutrient successful schools and the United States’ protectionist agenda.

Cuban doctors person been filling gaps successful aesculapian unit successful Mexico since astatine slightest 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, similar this doc astatine Hospital Tláhuac successful Mexico City successful 2020. (Rogelio Morales/Cuartoscuro)

Cuban doctors not taking jobs from Mexicans, Sheinbaum says 

In effect to a question astir the government’s hiring of doctors from Cuba, Sheinbaum said, “It is precise important for radical to cognize that they don’t substitute Mexican doctors.”

In 2022, Mexico’s aesculapian assemblage rejected the national government’s program to prosecute immoderate 500 Cuban doctors, asserting that it was disrespectful of Mexican doctors and claiming determination were capable Mexican physicians to conscionable the request for wellness attraction services.

Nevertheless, the authorities continued to bring Cuban doctors to Mexico successful consequent years.

Sheinbaum said that Cuban doctors were hired to instrumentality up specializer positions successful parts of the state wherever Mexicans don’t privation to go.

No substance however galore recruitment processes are undertaken, “There are nary Mexican doctors who privation to spell to these places, galore of which are successful the astir isolated places,” she said.

Sheinbaum said Thursday that Mexico needs Cuban doctors due to the fact that Mexican ones won’t enactment wherever needed. However, this protestation by Health Ministry workers a twelvemonth agone echoes galore Mexican nationalist doctors’ predominant complaints that government-run facilities deficiency medicines and capable instrumentality to dainty patients successfully. (Crisanta Espinosa Aguilar/Cuartoscuro)

Jorge Alcocer, wellness curate successful the erstwhile national government, said successful 2022 that doctors had cited insecurity arsenic the main crushed wherefore they didn’t privation to enactment successful agrarian areas of the country, but helium besides claimed that they were not funny successful surviving successful distant areas.

“They’re forgetting … the close patients person to beryllium attended to wherever they are,” Alcocer said astatine the time.

Despite erstwhile claims to the contrary, Sheinbaum said that Mexico has a shortage of doctors successful immoderate specializer fields of medicine.

“We already spoke astir wherefore determination are not [enough] specialists successful Mexico — due to the fact that for years, the full neoliberal period, [previous governments] closed disconnected the anticipation of determination being specializer doctors,” she said, referring to the play betwixt 1982 and 2018.

“It wasn’t until 2019 oregon 2020 that [former] president López Obrador doubled the grooming [opportunities] for specializer doctors,” Sheinbaum said portion presenting a graph to enactment her point.

She besides expressed her appreciation for the enactment Cuban doctors bash successful Mexico and told reporters that she has seen them astatine enactment herself during her play trips to antithetic parts of the country.

Sheinbaum says that Mexico has a shortage of specializer doctors, though this has been disputed. (Graciela López/Cuartoscuro)

Sheinbaum said she has besides witnessed the “gratitude of the people” they person treated.

Ban connected junk nutrient successful schools to instrumentality effect this month

A newsman noted that the prohibition connected the merchantability of junk nutrient successful schools that was announced by the Public Education Ministry past October is scheduled to instrumentality effect connected March 29 (even though that time is simply a Saturday).

“How volition you show compliance with this provision?” the newsman asked the president.

Sheinbaum referred the question to Deputy Education Minister Noemí Juárez Pérez, who said that the Education Ministry is “already moving with schoolhouse supervisors” to guarantee compliance with the ban.

“… They are our astir nonstop eyes, and we’ll beryllium utilizing and needing their enactment a lot. They’re our supervisors,” she said.

Education Minister Mario Delgado explaining the program to prohibition junk nutrient from the nation’s schools backmost successful October. (Moisés Pablo Nava/Cuartoscuro)

Juárez besides said that vendors of nutrient successful schools volition person grooming connected “the products that tin beryllium sold” and “those that can’t beryllium sold.”

“… The vendors already person immoderate look books [and] guidelines astir the mentation of products,” she added.

“… What we privation is to supply options much than a limitation. … It’s astir what steadfast options tin beryllium offered successful schools,” Juárez said.

According to regulations published successful the government’s authoritative gazette precocious past year, nutrient offered astatine schools indispensable comply with a scope of requirements, including that they beryllium of earthy root oregon minimally processed and that they beryllium cooked (if required) with a minimal magnitude of oil.

The betterment “seeks to displacement children’s eating habits distant from unhealthy Mexican staples, including chilaquiles, tacos de canasta and quesadillas,” Mexico News Daily reported successful October. “School cafeterias are advised not to service these types of meals to students.”

Schools that don’t comply with the rules volition beryllium taxable to fines of up to 5,450 pesos (US $270).

Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard and his squad headed again to Washington, D.C. Thursday for tariff talks with U.S. officials. (File photo/Twitter)

Mexico seeking to debar further US tariffs 

Sheinbaum noted that the authorities is inactive waiting to spot however Mexico volition beryllium affected by the reciprocal tariffs the United States intends to enforce connected imports from each its trading partners connected April 2.

“We’re ever seeking an statement and that Mexico is affected arsenic small arsenic possible,” she said.

“But if not, we person a plan, and we’ll talk intelligibly astir what this would mean,” said Sheinbaum, who has expressed assurance that Mexico volition debar reciprocal tariffs due to the fact that it doesn’t taxation astir imports from the United States.

“We’re ever going to question dialog [with the United States] and to look aft the [USMCA trade] agreement, which precise overmuch helps Mexico but besides helps the United States a lot,” she said.

The United States imposed 25% connected each imports from Mexico connected March 4, but 2 days aboriginal lifted the duties connected goods covered by the USMCA. Last week, the United States imposed 25% tariffs connected each alloy and aluminum imports, including those from Mexico.

Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard traveled to Washington D.C. connected Thursday for much tariff talks with U.S. officials.

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