Sheinbaum and Brazil’s Lula compare notes on Venezuela: Friday’s mañanera recapped

President Claudia Sheinbaum held her Friday greeting property league successful Acapulco, the largest metropolis and astir fashionable tourism destination successful the authorities of Guerrero.

It was the 2nd consecutive time that Sheinbaum held her mañanera extracurricular Mexico City arsenic she fronted the property successful Cuernavaca connected Thursday morning.

“It’s lukewarm [here], not similar yesterday successful Cuernavaca wherever the aerial was cold,” the president said astatine the commencement of her property conference.

After presentations by assorted authorities officials connected issues pertinent to Acapulco and the authorities of Guerrero, Sheinbaum fielded questions from reporters.

Sheinbaum’s telephone with Lula

Asked astir her telephone speech connected Thursday with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Sheinbaum said that she and the Brazilian president spoke astir “many issues.”

“We spoke astir the concern successful Latin America and the defence of sovereignty,” she said.

Brazilian President Lula shared astir their telephone telephone connected the societal media level X. (Screenshot/X)

In a societal media post, Lula wrote that helium and Sheinbaum condemned “the [U.S.] attacks against Venezuelan sovereignty” during their call, and rejected “any presumption that mightiness connote a instrumentality to the outdated part of the satellite into spheres of influence.”

While Mexico condemned the U.S. military’s involution successful Venezuela past Saturday, Sheinbaum noted that she explained to Lula that Mexico has a information “understanding” with the United States that it is presently “strengthening.”

She besides acknowledged that the Brazilian president invited her to sojourn Brazil successful May.

“I told him that we were going to see [the invitation],” Sheinbaum said.

“He besides told maine that they’re doing precise important enactment to be to [the occupation of] unit against women, which they besides person successful Brazil. And I projected that [Women’s Minister] Citlalli [Hernández] get successful interaction with them truthful that they cognize what we person done [in Mexico],” she said.

Sheinbaum responds to Trump’s remarks astir ‘hitting’ cartels connected land

While speaking astir her telephone with Lula, Sheinbaum turned her attraction to “the statements President Trump has made successful caller days.”

She was specifically referring to Trump’s remarks to Fox News connected Thursday.

“We’ve knocked retired 97% of the drugs coming successful by water, and we are going to commencement present hitting land, with respect to the cartels,” the U.S. president said.

“The cartels are moving Mexico; it’s precise bittersweet to ticker and spot what’s happened to that country,” helium added.

President Sheinbaum gave her Friday presser from Acapulco, Guerrero, wherever she addressed caller comments by U.S. President Trump astir subject strikes connected Mexican cartels. (Gabriel Monroy / Presidencia)

Sheinbaum played down the seriousness of Trump’s remarks, attributing them to his unsocial (and often hyperbolic) connection style.

“In short, we judge it’s portion of his mode of communicating, but, successful immoderate case, yesterday I asked Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente to marque nonstop interaction with the caput of state,” she said, referring to Marco Rubio, who has spoken successful affirmative presumption astir the information practice betwixt Mexico and the United States.

“And if it’s necessary, we’ll talk to President Trump to fortify [security] coordination wrong the model that we’ve already explained connected respective occasions,” Sheinbaum said, referring to a model premised connected respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity.

On repeated occasions, the president has asserted that a U.S. onslaught against Mexican cartels connected Mexican ungraded “won’t happen,” adjacent aft Trump said successful November that “strikes successful Mexico to halt drugs” were “OK” with him.

In airy of the United States’ audacious involution successful Venezuela — and Trump’s remarks connected Thursday — the likelihood of a U.S. subject onslaught against cartels successful Mexico, six of which the U.S. authorities has designated arsenic overseas violent organizations, surely appears to person increased.

In what would magnitude to an effort to stave disconnected specified a possibility, Sheinbaum stressed that her authorities is consenting to “further fortify the [security] relationship” with the United States and “strengthen coordination” connected information matters.

Trump: The US volition ‘now’ commencement hitting Mexican onshore targets

She didn’t specify however bilateral coordination could beryllium strengthened, but offering 1 illustration of the existent information collaboration betwixt Mexico and the United States, Sheinbaum noted that the Mexican Navy maintains interaction with the U.S. Coast Guard “in lawsuit a vas oregon vessel approaches [Mexican waters] truthful that it tin beryllium apprehended done coordinated efforts, without the request for force.”

She subsequently stressed that her authorities wants to support its information practice with the Trump administration, earlier declaring: “We don’t privation to deliberation astir immoderate different scenario.”

During the existent Trump administration, the United States has flown drones implicit Mexico to spy connected cause cartels and hunt for fentanyl labs successful missions that Sheinbaum says were requested by her government.

She is steadfastly opposed to immoderate unilateral, unrequested U.S. ngo successful Mexico, arsenic specified an enactment would interruption the sovereignty of a state that hasn’t forgotten the consequences of past U.S. interventions, including the nonaccomplishment of immense swathes of its territory to its bluish neighbour successful 1848.