Sheinbaum lauds reduced work hours, revocation of mining concessions: Thursday’s mañanera recapped

The Senate’s support of a 40-hour workweek bill, the government’s revocation of mining concessions and the accomplishment of humanitarian assistance successful Cuba were among the topics spoken astir astatine President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Thursday greeting property conference.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s Feb. 12 mañanera.

Sheinbaum responds to Senate’s support of 40-hour workweek bill

Sheinbaum noted that the Senate connected Wednesday unanimously approved a measure that seeks to trim Mexico’s modular workweek from 48 hours to 40.

She acknowledged that the 40-hour workweek is slated to instrumentality effect successful 2030, aft two-hour reductions successful each of 2027, 2028 and 2029.

“It was an statement betwixt unions and employers,” Sheinbaum said, adding that Labor Minister Marath Bolaños worked precise hard to execute the pact.

While it would trim the fig of moving hours, the measure passed by the Senate doesn’t stipulate that workers indispensable person 2 days disconnected per week. The law betterment connection has present been passed to the Chamber of Deputies, but statement connected it appears improbable to commence until precocious February.

Sheinbaum shared the signifier with José Fernando Aboitiz Saro, of the Economy Ministry, who explained the reasons for betterment of much than a 1000 mining concessions implicit astir of the states.  (Andrea Murcia/Cuartoscuro.com)

Asked whether it would beryllium imaginable to not lone trim the modular workweek successful hours, but besides successful days, from six to five, Sheinbaum responded:

“The historical request of workers has been 40 hours, and we’re complying. In addition, it’s important that [the same] income is guaranteed. It’s not that determination [will be] 40 hours astatine the disbursal of wages. … That is highly important.”

Sheinbaum acknowledged that “many workers,” including authorities employees, already enactment 40-hour weeks. However, she noted determination are “other workers” who walk longer connected the job.

According to information from the nationalist statistic bureau INEGI, 13.4 cardinal Mexicans presently enactment much than 40 hours per week. That fig represents conscionable implicit 1 successful 5 workers, arsenic Mexico’s workforce is made up of astir 60 cardinal people.

Government takes backmost much than 1,000 mining concessions

José Fernando Aboitiz Saro, caput of the Economy Ministry’s mining division, reported that the existent national authorities has recovered 1,126 mining concessions covering 889,512 hectares of territory.

“It is astir the size of the authorities of Querétaro, approximately, to springiness america an thought of what this means,” helium said.

Officials said Mexico has canceled mining concessions granted for astir 900,000 hectares of onshore owed to non-payment of fees and different issues. (Hazel Cárdenas / Presidencia)

Aboitiz said that among the concessions the authorities has taken backmost are much than 700 that correspond to astir 250,000 hectares of onshore wrong Protected Natural Areas.

He said the concessions person been canceled owed to companies’ nonaccomplishment to wage applicable fees and taxes successful a timely manner, and for different bureaucratic reasons.

Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard said it has been a “priority” of the national authorities to besides instrumentality backmost concessions that correspond to onshore wherever mining activities aren’t presently taking place, oregon which were acquired for “speculative” reasons.

Aboitiz told reporters that concessions person been canceled crossed overmuch of the country, with the objection of a fewer states specified arsenic Campeche, Quintana Roo and Tabasco, wherever helium said “virtually” nary mining takes place.

According to accusation helium presented, the states wherever the highest fig of concessions person been revoked are Coahuila (149); Chihuahua (134); Sonora (120); Zacatecas (119); Durango (101); and Jalisco (70).

Mexican assistance reaches Cuba

Sheinbaum noted that 2 Mexican Navy vessels carrying much than 800 tonnes of humanitarian assistance would scope Cuba this Thursday.

Once the ships instrumentality to Mexico, “we’ll nonstop much enactment of antithetic kinds,” she said.

The departure of the 2 Mexican Navy vessels past Sunday came 10 days aft U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States would enforce further tariffs connected goods from countries that proviso lipid to Cuba.

Sheinbaum said that the determination — seemingly aimed astatine accelerating authorities alteration successful Cuba — “could trigger a humanitarian situation of large reach, straight affecting hospitals, nutrient proviso and different basal services for the Cuban people.”

Mexico — the largest supplier of lipid to Cuba successful 2025 — is not presently shipping lipid to the communist-run land successful bid to debar the imposition of further tariffs connected its exports to the United States, but, with its shipments of aid, it is seeking to debar the benignant of humanitarian situation Sheinbaum warned of.

The president reiterated connected Thursday that Mexico could enactment arsenic mediator successful diplomatic talks betwixt Cuba and the United States, if those 2 countries are consenting to prosecute with each other.

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