Sheinbaum expects tariff agreement ‘this week’ with Trump administration: Monday’s mañanera recapped

At her Monday greeting property conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum erstwhile again expressed optimism that her authorities tin ward disconnected the 30% tariff the United States intends to enforce connected imports from Mexico connected Friday.

She besides responded to claims that the U.S. authorities is pressuring Mexico to detain and extradite Mexican politicians with alleged links to cause cartels.

In addition, Sheinbaum offered a defence of the ruling Morena party’s apical senator, Adán Augusto López Hernández, a erstwhile politician of Tabasco who has been caught up successful a ungraded involving the antheral who served arsenic his information curate successful the Gulf seashore state.

Sheinbaum remains assured that Mexico volition scope a woody with US to avert 30% tariff 

A newsman noted that United States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said connected the play that determination would beryllium “no extensions” oregon “grace periods” for U.S commercialized partners, and that the tariffs scheduled to instrumentality effect connected Aug. 1 “are set” to spell into force.

United States President Donald Trump informed Sheinbaum earlier this period that the U.S. would enforce a 30% tariff connected imports from Mexico, “separate from each Sectoral Tariffs,” connected Aug 1.

Despite Lutnick’s remark, Sheinbaum said that her authorities inactive believed that it could scope an statement with its U.S. counterpart to stave disconnected the tariff.

“We’re inactive talking, we’re inactive talking with [the U.S. government],” she stressed.

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Sheinbaum highlighted that the U.S. authorities precocious signed caller commercialized agreements with Japan and the European Union.

“And we expect an statement this week,” she said.

“… Obviously the United States has its presumption and we person ours, but we judge we’re going to scope an agreement,” Sheinbaum said.

The president said past Thursday that her authorities was doing “everything” it could to halt the 30% work from entering into force.

“There is simply a squad moving successful the United States with the [U.S.] commerce caput and the treasury secretary,” she said astatine her Thursday greeting property conference.

“We made a bid of proposals that person to bash with Plan México and also reducing the commercialized shortage [with the United States], which is 1 of the concerns of President Trump,” Sheinbaum said.

“… We’re going to spot whether the teams tin find an agreement. … We’re assured we tin scope a bully agreement,” she said.

Claims that the US is pressuring Mexico to apprehension politicians connected cause trafficking charges are ‘completely false,’ says Sheinbaum 

A newsman told the president that determination person been claims, particularly successful paper columns, that the United States has been exerting unit connected Mexico to manus implicit “alleged ‘big fish’ of narco-politics successful Mexico.”

“I privation to inquire you whether this is existent oregon not?” the newsman said.

Sheinbaum said that specified claims are wholly and utterly false.

“What are their sources?” she asked, referring to columnists.

Sheinbaum said that successful nary of her “many” calls with Trump has the United States president asked for Mexico to manus implicit immoderate person oregon immoderate idiosyncratic with links to a politician.

Sheinbaum said connected Monday that successful nary of her “many” calls with Trump has the United States president asked for Mexico to manus implicit immoderate politician. (Andrea Murcia/Cuartoscuro)

She besides said that neither the U.S. Department of State nor the Department of Justice has asked Mexican authorities to apprehension and manus implicit a person with alleged cause ties.

Asked whether “this issue” had “contaminated” commercialized talks with the United States, Sheinbaum responded, “No, not astatine all.”

Citing “sources acquainted with the matter,” the Reuters quality bureau reported past period that the Trump medication was “pressuring Mexico to analyse and prosecute politicians with suspected links to organized crime, and to extradite them to the United States if determination are transgression charges to reply there.”

Sheinbaum and Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Ministry described the study arsenic “completely false.”

On 2 occasions, the United States Embassy successful Mexico has denounced arsenic “false” expected U.S. authorities lists of Mexican politicians with transgression links.

Sheinbaum’s latest rejection of claims that the United States is pressuring Mexico to apprehension politicians with alleged cartel links comes arsenic Senator Adán Augusto López Hernández, a erstwhile politician of Tabasco and ex-federal interior minister, continues to look questions and unit implicit the ungraded involving the antheral who served arsenic his information curate successful Tabasco, Hernán Bermúdez, who is wanted connected charges related to his alleged engagement with the La Barredora transgression group.

‘There is nary probe against’ López Hernández, Sheinbaum stresses 

Sheinbaum noted that the Tabasco Attorney General’s Office has a warrant for the apprehension of Bermúdez, and asserted that her authorities is “collaborating successful immoderate is necessary” to detain the erstwhile authorities information minister, who reportedly near Mexico successful January.

She highlighted that the Finance Ministry’s Financial Intelligence Unit past week “froze the accounts of companies linked to this person.”

Former Tabasco authorities information curate Hernán Bermúdez is accused of colluding with the La Barredora cartel. (X)

A newsman suggested that it was “obvious” that López Hernández knew astir the alleged transgression links of his information curate successful Tabasco, conscionable arsenic it has been claimed that it is “obvious” that erstwhile president Felipe Calderón knew astir the illicit activities of his erstwhile information minister, Genaro García Luna, who was convicted successful the United States of colluding with the Sinaloa Cartel and sentenced to much than 38 years successful prison.

“That’s wherefore the investigations person to continue,” Sheinbaum said.

“And helium [López Hernández] already said, ‘ … Ask me. What I know, I’ll say,'” she added.

The aforesaid newsman noted that determination person been calls for López Hernández to measurement down arsenic the person of the ruling Morena enactment successful the Senate, and asked the president whether his “leadership” successful the precocious location is “solid.”

“Yes,” Sheinbaum responded earlier stressing that “there is nary probe … against the senator.”

López Hernández was politician of Tabasco betwixt 2019 and 2021 earlier leaving that presumption to go interior curate successful the authorities of erstwhile president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

He resigned arsenic interior curate successful 2023 to vie for the 2024 statesmanlike predetermination information of Morena, a contention that Sheinbaum yet won earlier going connected to assertion triumph successful the predetermination connected June 2 past year.

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