Sheinbaum denies Milei’s ‘anti-Argentina campaign’ claim: Monday’s mañanera recapped

Sheinbaum’s mañanera successful 60 seconds

• 🇦🇷🇲🇽 Sheinbaum denies Milei’s ‘anti-Argentina campaign’ claim: Responding to play remarks by Argentine President Javier Milei accusing Mexico, Brazil and the U.S. Democratic Party of financing a run against his government, Sheinbaum was blunt: “There’s nary [Mexican] run against immoderate state successful the world, nor against immoderate authorities successful the world.”
• 🎖️ Militarized schools ‘not authorized,’ says Education Ministry (SEP): Amid fallout from the lawsuit of a student’s decease astatine a alleged “militarized academy” successful Tamaulipas, Education Minister Mario Delgado said specified schools autumn extracurricular SEP and Defensa jurisdiction and that military-style acquisition successful schools is incompatible with Mexico’s law acquisition principles.
• ⚠️ Zacatecas cartel menace video ‘isn’t real,’ Sheinbaum says: Asked astir a video successful which equipped men claiming to beryllium portion of a Sinaloa Cartel faction threatened Zacatecas Governor David Monreal, the president said the Security Cabinet determined the aforesaid time it surfaced that the audio had been dubbed.
• 🌎 Self-determination rule invoked again: Sheinbaum tied her effect to Milei to Mexico’s long-standing attack to overseas policy, saying Mexico asks different nations for the aforesaid respect for interior affairs that it offers them.

Why today’s mañanera matters

President Claudia Sheinbaum took the accidental during her Monday greeting property league to stock advances of her administration’s probe into the interaction of societal media and artificial quality connected Mexico’s young people.

Education Minister Mario Delgado brought successful 2 experts — Lucía Magis Weinberg and Tania Jiménez García — to contiguous findings connected however excessive surface clip and societal media usage impact young people’s cognitive and affectional development.

“We are compiling this accusation truthful that it is disposable to parents,” Sheinbaum said.

“And truthful that, together, we marque a bid of decisions to support children and adolescents during this formative signifier of their lives,” the president said, earlier connecting the contented to the improvement of the state astatine large.

Sheinbaum besides shared results of a caller survey indicating that 71% of parents see it indispensable that the authorities modulate minors’ compartment telephone usage successful schools.

Other issues astatine today’s mañanera touched connected headlines from Zacatecas to Argentina.

On the planetary front, reporters pressed Sheinbaum connected Milei’s accusation that Mexico had helped money a run against Argentina during the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup.

Milei’s accusation didn’t travel retired of nowhere. The president of Argentina has leaned connected akin claims before: successful May, a leaked telephone betwixt him and pardoned erstwhile Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández surfaced, successful which Milei was said to person enactment up $350,000 for a media cognition to dispersed accusation against leftist governments successful Mexico, Colombia and Brazil — an occurrence that became known arsenic “Hondurasgate.”

Sheinbaum was besides asked connected Monday astir a video threatening Zacatecas Governor David Monreal, which she dismissed arsenic fake.

That video surfaced successful the aftermath of a existent and still-unsolved multihomicide. Ten radical — among them businesspeople and erstwhile officials — were recovered killed successful respective Zacatecas municipalities earlier this month, with 5 bodies located on the Zacatecas-Saltillo highway. State and national authorities are inactive investigating who was responsible, with 1 enactment of enquiry examining whether immoderate of the victims had ties to extortion by organized crime.

Sheinbaum rejects Milei’s ‘anti-Argentina campaign’ accusation

A newsman asked Sheinbaum to respond to remarks made Sunday by Argentine President Javier Milei, who told the Buenos Aires-based Radio Mitre that Mexico, Brazil and the U.S. Democratic Party had bankrolled a “campaña antiargentina” — an anti-Argentina run — aimed astatine undermining his authorities up of elections.

Milei’s comments came hours aft Brazil recalled its ambassador from Buenos Aires implicit abstracted remarks successful which helium called Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva a “presidiario” (convict) and a “ladrón” (thief). Milei alleged Brazil had funded 25% of the expected run and labeled Mexican and U.S. Democratic officials “progressive heads” seeking to derail his economical agenda.

Javier Milei acusó a México y Brasil de financiar una presunta “campaña antiargentina” para desacreditar a su administración

Esto previo a las elecciones presidenciales en Argentina

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— Manuel Lopez San Martin (@MLopezSanMartin) July 26, 2026

“There’s nary [Mexican] run against immoderate state successful the world, nor against immoderate authorities successful the world,” Sheinbaum said, adding that if anything, “here determination is simply a campaign” against Mexico’s ain government, from aggregate fronts.

She stressed that Mexico “doesn’t thin to get progressive with different countries” and tied her effect to Mexico’s law rule of self-determination, a doctrine she has repeatedly invoked this twelvemonth successful effect to frictions successful overseas relations.

Education Ministry: Military-style schooling ‘not authorized’

Monday’s mañanera besides addressed fallout from the lawsuit of Dafne Quintos, a pupil whose caller decease has been linked to a “militarized academy” successful Tamaulipas. Quintos, 13, reportedly died connected July 17 astatine Academia Militarizada “Doenitz” wherever she was taking a summertime course. According to her mother, Alejandra Quintos, the transgression is being investigated arsenic a femicide with drowning arsenic the origin of death.

Education Minister Mario Delgado reiterated a presumption his ministry archetypal stated Friday: schools branded arsenic “militarized” autumn nether neither the Education Ministry (SEP) nor the Defense Ministry (Defensa), and delivering military-style acquisition successful acquisition institutions is “incompatible with the law aims, principles and objectives” governing Mexican education.

Delgado said Tamaulipas authorities person since identified 5 further schools operating nether the aforesaid model. He said helium remains successful interaction with the Tamaulipas authorities authorities and has tried to scope Quintos’s parent directly.

Sheinbaum debunks video threatening Zacatecas governor

A astir two-minute video circulating connected societal media shows 9 masked, equipped men posing down a tenth who reads retired a connection connected camera claiming work for the sidesplitting of 10 men successful Zacatecas earlier this period connected behalf of a Sinaloa Cartel faction.

Zacatecas AG: Multihomicide of 10, including officials, whitethorn beryllium linked to extortion and collusion

The spokesperson asserts — without grounds — that the murders were carried retired astatine the authorities government’s request. The aforesaid connection past turns to a nonstop menace against Zacatecas Governor David Monreal, informing him to “honor and respect the agreements his furniture has with our organization” oregon look consequences that would widen to his family.

Asked astir the clip, Sheinbaum said the signaling is not authentic. She said the national Security Cabinet informed her the aforesaid time the video surfaced that it contained method inconsistencies, chiefly that the dependable way doesn’t lucifer the idiosyncratic shown speaking.

“It’s not a existent video — the dependable doesn’t adjacent lucifer what the idiosyncratic is saying,” she said, adding that the lawsuit is inactive being investigated.

She said national authorities are moving to find who produced the video, who distributed it and what the intent of publishing it was, and that immoderate grounds linking nationalist officials to organized transgression would beryllium investigated nether the instrumentality careless of the outcome.

Monreal has not commented straight connected the video but said separately that Zacatecas maintains imperishable information operations involving the army, the National Guard and authorities police. Last week, authorities authorities announced the apprehension of 5 radical successful transportation with the homicides.

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