‘Last time the US came to Mexico, they took half the territory,’ Sheinbaum warns: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

At her Tuesday greeting property conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threats of involution successful Mexico, arsenic good arsenic caller question proposal for Mexico that was issued by the Canadian government.

Among different issues, Sheinbaum spoke astir the radical who stay successful custody aft being detained successful Mexico City’s cardinal quadrate connected Saturday for allegedly attacking constabulary astatine the extremity of a ample anti-government protestation march.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s Nov. 18 mañanera.

Sheinbaum says — erstwhile again — that US involution successful Mexico ‘won’t happen’

Asked astir Trump’s remark connected Monday that launching “strikes successful Mexico to halt drugs” would beryllium “OK” with him, Sheinbaum erstwhile again declared that a U.S. subject involution successful Mexico “won’t happen.”

“… I’ve said it galore times,” the president noted.

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“In the conversations I’ve had with President Trump, implicit the phone, helium has … said: ‘We connection you a United States subject involution successful Mexico — immoderate you request to combat transgression groups.’ But I person told him each clip that we tin collaborate, that they tin assistance america with immoderate accusation they have, but that we run wrong our ain territory, and we bash not judge involution from immoderate overseas government,” Sheinbaum said.

“I’ve told him this implicit the phone, and we’ve besides said it to the State Department, to Marco Rubio. And they’ve understood; successful fact, the statement we person with them is 1 of collaboration and coordination,” she said.

Sheinbaum stressed that “respect for sovereignty” and “respect for territorial integrity” are among “the archetypal points” of a “joint connection connected information cooperation” issued successful aboriginal September.

She besides said that the U.S. authorities has acknowledged successful a connection that it won’t intervene successful Mexico unless her medication requests specified assistance.

“And we’re not going to inquire for it due to the fact that we don’t privation interventions from immoderate overseas government,” Sheinbaum said.

“There is collaboration and determination is coordination, but determination is not subordination, nor tin we let an intervention. … The past clip the United States came to Mexico with an intervention, they took fractional the territory. So, it’s not that we don’t privation support, we do. But not with overseas troops, that’s thing else,” she said.

Sheinbaum says that Revolution Day subject parade volition spell up successful CDMX, contempt caller ‘Gen Z’ march 

Sheinbaum said that the yearly Revolution Day subject parade volition instrumentality spot successful Mexico City this Thursday, adjacent though a caller “Generation Z” protestation march is planned for the aforesaid time successful the capital.

The archetypal “Gen Z” march successful the superior past Saturday turned violent, with immoderate protesters attacking constabulary officers successful the Zócalo, Mexico City’s main square.

Sheinbaum declared that the Revolution Day parade “will instrumentality spot connected Nov. 20, arsenic it ever does.”

“… We person to person respect for what the Mexican Army represents,” she said.

A full of 17,000 radical participated successful the Nov.15 march, according to the Mexico City government, but immoderate media reports indicated that the turnout was importantly larger. (Rogelio Morales/Cuartoscuro)

When a newsman suggested that determination could beryllium a clash betwixt protesters and subject unit participating successful the parade, the president dismissed specified a possibility, earlier modifying her connection and saying, “we don’t think” thing volition happen.

According to a station connected Sunday by the Generación Z México relationship connected the X societal media site, a protestation march from the Angel of Independence Monument to the Zócalo volition instrumentality spot for the 2nd clip successful little than a week this Thursday, starting astatine 11 a.m.

The aforesaid relationship promoted the anti-government marches against insecurity that took spot past Saturday successful Mexico City and different cities crossed the country.

Most of the participants were not members of Generation Z — radical calved betwixt 1997 and 2012 — and earlier the protestation took place, Sheinbaum accused absorption parties of infiltrating the Gen Z movement.

The president denounced the unit successful the Zócalo that marred Saturday’s protestation successful Mexico City and near 100 constabulary officers and 20 different radical with injuries.

According to a station connected Tuesday by the Generación Z México account, a protestation volition besides beryllium held astatine the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) successful Mexico City astatine 9 a.m. Thursday.

“We invitation you to enactment successful our protestation astatine UNAM,” reads a integer flyer. “For our people, for Generation Z.”

Sheinbaum: ‘There has to beryllium grounds for immoderate accusation’

A newsman noted that determination is simply a batch of “commotion” connected societal media astir protesters who were arrested astatine the extremity of the objection successful Mexico City past Saturday. At slightest 3 of those radical look charges of attempted murder, portion 15 others look different charges, including battle of constabulary officers.

Asked astir those successful custody, Sheinbaum said “there has to beryllium grounds for immoderate accusation” against them.

“The Mexico City Attorney General’s Office is handling the cases, and obviously, for immoderate probe record that is opened, determination has to beryllium grounds of the accusations,” she said.

“Yesterday we saw precise disturbing images,” Sheinbaum said, referring to photos and video footage she presented of acts of unit being committed against constabulary officers.

“The Attorney General’s Office has to amusement that the radical who are detained truly participated successful an amerciable act,” she added.

Sheinbaum responds to Canada’s caller Mexico question advice 

A newsman noted that the Canadian authorities has issued updated question proposal for Mexico, advising Canadian citizens to “avoid non-essential travel” to 14 states, with definite exceptions successful each state.

Those states are Chiapas, Chihuahua, Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, Morelos, Michoacán, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas.

Asked whether her authorities was alert of the caller question advice, Sheinbaum archetypal noted that “a lot” of Canadian tourists travel to Mexico. Tourism Minister Josefina Rodríguez promptly noted that Canadian tourer numbers are up 11% this year.

Tourism from Canada jumps 11.8% amid US boycott

Sheinbaum said that her authorities would inquire the Canadian Embassy successful Mexico astir the Canadian government’s caller question advice, which warns against question to immoderate of Mexico’s astir convulsive states.

The president subsequently declared that authoritative advisories against question to definite parts of Mexico are not precise effective, “because Americans, Canadians [and] Europeans proceed arriving to the southeast, to the center, to the full country.”

International tourer numbers accrued 6.4% annually successful the archetypal 9 months of the twelvemonth to scope 34.7 million. The full fig of “international visitors” — including cruise vessel passengers and time trippers from the countries that borderline Mexico — accrued 13.9% to scope 71 cardinal betwixt January and September.

Mexico’s apical root state for tourists is the United States, which advises U.S. citizens not to question to six Mexican states (Colima, Guerrero, Michoacán, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas and Guerrero) and to “reconsider travel” to 7 others.

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