Mexico launches an ‘alternative to the Panama Canal’: Monday’s mañanera recapped

After a play travel to Baja California and Sonora, President Claudia Sheinbaum held her Monday greeting property league successful the National Palace successful Mexico City.

A milestone successful the cognition of the railroad crossed the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a National Electoral Institute ruling and her ever-soaring popularity were among the issues she spoke about.

‘It’s an exceptional task — it provides an alternate to the Panama Canal’

Sheinbaum acknowledged that a maiden shipment of vehicles — 900 Hyundai cars from South Korea — was transported crossed the Isthmus of Tehuantepec by bid implicit the weekend.

She said that “some products” had already been transported crossed the isthmus betwixt Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, and Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, but it was the archetypal clip that vehicles were taken crossed the 308-kilometer-long modernized railroad betwixt the 2 ports.

The modernized railroad is the centerpiece of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT) infrastructure project.

The docking of the Hyundai Glovis cargo vessel successful Salina Cruz connected Friday was dubbed the “first accomplishment astatine the Interoceanic Corridor” successful a banner unfurled astatine the port. The trans-isthmus shipment of the Hyundai vehicles was described arsenic “the motorboat of a groundbreaking caller route.”

@armandogonzalezm2 Le comparto este gran acontecimiento para #México!, el #corredorinteroceanico tiene vida! #MéxicoAvanza #ConectandoMundos #IstmoDeTehuantepec #logistica #hyundai ♬ Así Fue – En Vivo Desde Bellas Artes, México/ 2013 – Juan Gabriel

Sheinbaum said that the larboard successful Salina Cruz is “still being developed” with nationalist and backstage investment. Even so, “larger ships” person begun docking determination acknowledgment to the breakwater built during the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, she said.

Sheinbaum added that a atom retention terminal volition beryllium built astatine the Salina Cruz larboard and “other actions” volition beryllium undertaken to “strengthen the port.”

She was effusive successful her praise of the CIIT, which is besides slated to see a concatenation of 10 concern parks.

“It’s an exceptional task — it provides an alternate to the Panama Canal,” Sheinbaum said.

“And erstwhile the larboard of Salina Cruz is finished, it volition person a batch much activity,” she said.

According to the Oaxaca Ministry of Economic Development, the shipment of Hyundai cars is destined for the eastbound seashore of the United States. Transporting the cars from Korea to their last destination via Salina Cruz and Coatzacoalcos — wherever they are re-loaded onto a vessel — reduces the full shipping clip by 5 days successful examination with a voyage that includes traversing the Panama Canal, according to the ministry. It said that full logistics costs are 15% lower, and highlighted that it takes 9 hours to transport the vehicles crossed the isthmus by rail.

The Interoceanic Train is the cardinal to the now-operational trans-isthmus shipping corridor. (Gobierno de Oaxaca)

Former Navy Minister José Rafael Ojeda Durán asserted successful 2023 that Mexico would go a “world shipping power” acknowledgment to the operation of the commercialized corridor betwixt the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico crossed the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Sheinbaum to situation INE ruling against promotion of judicial elections 

Sheinbaum told reporters that her authorities has not yet been formally notified of the  determination by the National Electoral Institute (INE) to prohibit federal, authorities and municipal governments, nationalist institutions and idiosyncratic officials from promoting Mexico’s archetypal ever judicial elections.

“We haven’t been notified yet,” she said, adding that specified a regularisation lone takes effect aft notification of those affected.

The judicial elections volition beryllium held connected June 1 acknowledgment to a arguable judicial betterment approved by Congress past September. The authoritative run play for candidates for judgeships, including Supreme Court justness positions, began connected Sunday.

Sheinbaum said that her authorities has simply been reminding radical that the elections are coming up, not campaigning connected behalf of immoderate candidates.

She made it wide that she doesn’t hold with the INE’s ruling, and connected some Sunday — erstwhile the prohibition took effect — and Monday erstwhile she didn’t comply with it.

President Sheinbaum said her authorities would situation the National Electoral Institute (INE) ruling that prohibits nationalist institutions from promoting the upcoming judicial elections. (Rogelio Morales/Cuartoscuro)

“We’re not going to beforehand voting for 1 idiosyncratic oregon another, but simply information [in the elections],” Sheinbaum emphasized.

She told reporters that the national authorities volition situation the INE’s determination astatine the Federal Electoral Tribunal “because we judge it’s important that the enforcement powerfulness and the legislative power, without directing [citizens to ballot for] 1 idiosyncratic oregon another, … enactment successful the dissemination of this transformational lawsuit that volition instrumentality spot successful Mexico connected June 1.”

Sheinbaum and different national officials accidental that the predetermination of judges is indispensable to escaped the judiciary of corruption and different ills specified arsenic nepotism.

Critics of the judicial elections reason that the predetermination of judges volition erode the independency of Mexico’s judiciary due to the fact that it volition travel to beryllium stacked with judges sympathetic to the ruling Morena party’s agenda, frankincense removing a captious cheque connected enforcement power.

Another poll, different sky-high support standing for the president 

A newsman noted that a canvass conducted for the El País paper and W Radio detected an support standing of 82% for Sheinbaum successful March, up from 80% successful January.

The president — arsenic she invariably does erstwhile flattering canvass results are mentioned astatine her mañanera — thanked the radical of Mexico for their support.

She added that her authorities volition “never betray the people.”

Sheinbaum said that the precocious levels of enactment she enjoys bespeak a “very different” world successful Mexico to that perceived oregon promoted by “the celebrated commentariat of intellectuals from the past linked to the authorities of the past — that earlier 2018.”

López Obrador took bureau successful precocious 2018, marking the commencement of the alleged “fourth transformation” of nationalist beingness successful Mexico, of which the existent president says she is gathering “el segundo piso,” oregon 2nd story.

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