Sheinbaum applauds US-Cuba talks: Friday’s mañanera recapped

Today’s mañanera in 60 seconds

• 📉 Colima homicides down 26%: National Public Security System main Marcela Figueroa reported that the state’s regular homicide complaint fell 26% successful 2025 to 1.7, though February’s complaint roseate 49.6% compared to the aforesaid period past year.
• 🪖 2,790 arrests and a large national deployment successful Colima: Security Minister García Harfuch said Colima is simply a precedence for the government, with 4,000+ national forces deployed, astir 2,800 arrests for high-impact crimes, and 4.5 tonnes of drugs seized since Sheinbaum took office.
• 🇨🇺🇺🇸 Sheinbaum welcomes Cuba-US talks: Asked astir Cuban President Díaz-Canel’s announcement that Havana held talks with the Trump administration, Sheinbaum responded “qué bueno” — adding that Mexico volition “always beforehand bid and diplomatic dialogue,” peculiarly fixed what she called the longstanding injustice of the US embargo against Cuba.

Why today’s mañanera matters  

President Claudia Sheinbaum held her Friday greeting property league successful Manzanillo, a Pacific seashore metropolis successful Colima that is location to Mexico’s largest port.

Sheinbaum regularly holds her Friday mañanera successful a determination metropolis earlier embarking connected a play circuit to inaugurate infrastructure projects, beforehand her government’s payment programs and get up adjacent and idiosyncratic with her galore supporters crossed Mexico.

At today’s property league successful Colima, Mexico’s slightest populous state, information was a cardinal absorption and for bully reason. The authorities has agelong been the country’s astir convulsive successful presumption of homicides per capita.

A cardinal crushed wherefore unit is simply a large occupation successful the authorities is the beingness of the Manzanillo port, a large introduction constituent to Mexico for illicit products, including Chinese precursor chemicals utilized to marque fentanyl. Criminal power of the larboard is frankincense highly coveted by transgression groups, arsenic are trafficking routes that tally northbound and northeast from the Pacific seashore state.

Today’s mañanera was important simply owed to the beingness successful Colima of Sheinbaum arsenic good arsenic apical information officials, including Security Minister Omar García Harfuch and Defense Minister Ricardo Trevilla Trejo.

They were capable to tout immoderate advancement successful reducing unit successful the state, the mounting of Juan Rulfo’s legendary caller “Pedro Páramo.”

President Sheinbaum was joined astatine her Friday greeting property league by Colima Gov. Indira Vizcaíno Silva, Security Minister Omar García Harfuch, Navy Minister Raymundo Morales Ángeles and Defense Minister Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, among different officials. (Saúl López / Presidencia)

Homicides declined 26% successful 2025

National Public Security System main Marcela Figueroa reported that the regular homicide complaint successful the authorities of Colima successful 2025 was 1.7, down 26% compared to the erstwhile year.

She besides reported that the regular homicide complaint successful February was 2.14, down 25% from the highest during Sheinbaum’s medication to date, which was a complaint of 2.87 murders per time successful November 2024.

The information Figueroa presented besides showed that the homicide complaint past period accrued 49.6% compared to February 2025.

Almost 2,800 arrests successful Colima since Sheinbaum took office 

García Harfuch told reporters that Colima is simply a “priority entity for the authorities of Mexico,” earlier noting that much than 4,000 members of national information forces including the Army, the Navy and the National Guard are deployed to the state.

The information curate said that betwixt Oct. 1, 2024 — the day Sheinbaum took bureau — and March 10 of this year, 2,790 radical were arrested successful Colima for allegedly committing high-impact crimes specified arsenic murder, kidnapping and extortion.

Among those detained were 54 alleged members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel who were taken into custody during a Navy cognition successful November.

Desde Manzanillo se informa que de 2024-2025 se disminuyeron los homicidios dolosos en Colima en 26%. Entre septiembre de 2024 y febrero de 2026 los delitos de alto impacto disminuyeron en 27%. La Estrategia de Seguridad avanza e incluye jornadas de acercamiento con la comunidad. pic.twitter.com/YQLg15dijY

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García Harfuch besides reported that much than 4.5 tonnes of drugs were seized successful Colima successful the 17-month play to March 10.

Sheinbaum pleased that Cuba and US are talking 

A newsman asked the president her sentiment connected the announcement by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel that his authorities held talks with the Trump administration.

“Qué bueno,” responded Sheinbaum, who had said connected repeated occasions that Mexico could enactment arsenic mediator successful diplomatic talks betwixt Cuba and the United States, if those 2 countries were consenting to prosecute with each other.

In a connection broadcast connected Friday morning, Díaz-Canel said that Cuban officials “recently” held talks with U.S. authorities representatives “to question done dialog the imaginable solution to bilateral differences.”

The U.S. authorities has efficaciously stopped lipid from reaching the Communist-run Caribbean island, exacerbating what was already a grim concern successful Cuba, arsenic President Donald Trump pushes for governmental change, if not authorities change, successful the country.

Mexico, the apical supplier of lipid to Cuba successful 2025, precocious ceased sending lipid to the land owed to a tariff menace from Trump. However, past period Mexico shipped much than 2,000 tonnes of humanitarian assistance to Cuba.

Why is Mexico abruptly Cuba’s biggest lipid supplier?

On Friday morning, Sheinbaum said that Mexico volition “always beforehand bid and diplomatic dialogue” betwixt countries, “particularly successful the look of this injustice that has been committed against the radical of Cuba for galore years.”

She was referring to the longstanding U.S. embargo against Cuba, which she said has caused a scope of antithetic problems.

“It’s indispensable that determination is this dialog [between Cuba and the U.S.],” Sheinbaum said, adding that Mexico would proceed supporting the Cuban radical successful immoderate mode it can.

Díaz-Canel said determination were “international factors” that facilitated his government’s talks with the Trump administration, but Mexico wasn’t straight involved, according to Sheinbaum.

She said that Mexico’s relation was 1 of “promoting dialogue” to some U.S. and Cuban authorities.