Sheinbaum co-signs Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl statement: Monday’s mañanera recapped

Among the topics President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir astatine her Monday greeting property league were Bad Bunny’s show astatine the Super Bowl successful California connected Sunday and a New York Times nonfiction headlined “Mexican Cartels Overwhelm Police With Ammunition Made for the U.S. Military.”

Sheinbaum besides acknowledged that 2 Mexican Navy vessels carrying humanitarian assistance are connected their mode to Cuba, and pledged that Mexico volition supply much enactment to the embattled Caribbean land nation.

Mexico halted lipid shipments to Cuba successful January pursuing expanding unit from the United States. President Sheinbaum, however, insists Mexico volition proceed to assistance Cuba “as we person ever helped,” she said connected Monday. (Semar)

(Click present to work Mexico News Daily’s study connected the dispatch of assistance and Sheinbaum’s remarks.)

‘The champion antidote to hatred is love’: Sheinbaum reacts to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance 

A newsman noted that Bad Bunny — a Puerto Rican rapper and vocalist whose existent sanction is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio — performed astatine the Super Bowl connected Sunday and sent “a precise important connection of unity for Latin America.”

He besides noted that, during a show filled with “symbolism,” Bad Bunny conveyed the message, “the lone happening much almighty than hatred is love.”

“What is your sentiment astir this message, presidenta?” the newsman asked.

“Very interesting, isn’t it? That helium sang successful Spanish astatine the Super Bowl and that the connection is of unity of America, of the American continent,” Sheinbaum said.

She noted that the antheral known arsenic the “King of Latin Trap” mentioned “all” (or astatine slightest astir of) the countries of the Americas during his performance, “including the United States and Canada.”

“So, he’s speaking astir the American continent. Very interesting, isn’t it? And a batch of symbols indeed. And indeed, the champion antidote to hatred is love,” Sheinbaum said.

“… We privation to fortify America, the American continent,” the president — an advocator of adding different countries successful the portion to the USMCA escaped commercialized pact — said aboriginal successful her mañanera.

“… In that way, we could implicit a batch [better] with immoderate [other] portion of the world,” Sheinbaum said.

During his performance, Bad Bunny shouted “Seguimos aquí” (We’re inactive here) — a notation to Latinos successful the U.S. and crossed the Americas astatine a clip erstwhile the Trump medication is carrying retired an assertive deportation docket — and held up a shot emblazoned with the connection “Together, We are America.”

ABC News reported that “by naming each federation [of the Americas], Bad Bunny underscored however expansive and divers the Americas are, … and highlighted a position beyond 1 that views ‘America’ simply arsenic shorthand for the U.S.”

The New York Times reported that the show “was a kaleidoscopic blast of merriment — a showcase of immoderate of the astir ecstatic and celebratory aspects of Latin culture.”

In Mexico News Daily, Charlotte Smith wrote that what she saw “wasn’t a halftime performance, it was regular beingness rendered without apology.”

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“It was the benignant of imagery Anthony Bourdain understood truthful well. Not the postcard mentation of a place, but the unstyled, lived-in one,” she said.

The quality outlet Infobae reported that determination were “four winks” to Mexico successful Bad Bunny’s performance: the beingness of the all-female mariachi radical Mariachi Divas; the inclusion of a taco basal (Villa’s Tacos, Los Angeles); the beingness of Mexican boxer Emiliano Vargas sparring with a Puerto Rican boxer; and the notation of Mexico on with different countries successful the Americas.

Mexican authorities ‘reviewing’ NYT report 

A newsman brought up a Feb. 7 New York Times study that states that:

“Millions of pages of tribunal documents, seizure records and authorities information obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and The New York Times amusement however agreements betwixt the Army and the backstage contractors that tally Lake City [Army Ammunition Plant] person allowed .50-caliber ammunition and components made astatine the works to participate retail markets and autumn into the hands of Mexican cartels.”

The study besides states that request for .50-caliber ammunition successful Mexico, “where cartels person heavy pockets and a seemingly endless appetite for .50-caliber firearms,” is high.

“Cartel gunmen equipped with .50-caliber firearms person downed helicopters, assassinated authorities officials, changeable astatine constabulary and subject forces, and massacred civilians,” the study says.

“… Data makes wide that the U.S. Army works has been a large root of the destructive ammunition being utilized to wage military-style battles with Mexican authorities.”

In airy of the report, the newsman asked Sheinbaum whether she thinks determination is lone “a constricted effort” oregon “very fewer actions” successful the United States to power the travel of weapons to Mexico.

“We’re reviewing this report,” the president said.

“It came retired successful The New York Times, yesterday I think, oregon the time earlier yesterday. … We’re reviewing the study successful bid to talk with the U.S. authorities astir this contented and to spot however it is imaginable that these weapons [and ammunition], which are for the exclusive usage of the U.S. Army, are coming into Mexico,” Sheinbaum said.

For years, Mexico has been asking the United States to bash much to halt the southward travel of firearms, galore of which extremity up successful the hands of members of convulsive cause cartels.

Last September, Mexico and the U.S. announced the motorboat of a caller bilateral inaugural aimed astatine disrupting the southward travel of illicit weapons crossed the Mexico-U.S. border.

At the time, Sheinbaum said that the statement to behaviour Mission Firewall, arsenic the inaugural is called, was “very important.”

She besides said that “for the archetypal time, the United States recognizes that it has to bash operations to power … the amerciable trafficking of weapons to Mexico.”