Sheinbaum promises ban on large-scale tourism developments in Mahahual: Friday’s mañanera recapped

Sheinbaum’s mañanera in 60 seconds

• 💰 Mega-investment propulsion successful Veracruz: From Coatzacoalcos, the CEO of Pemex announced a 93-billion-peso petrochemical and fertilizer plan. Sheinbaum said that her medication is investing 190 cardinal pesos connected infrastructure, energy, water, situation and healthcare projects successful Veracruz.
• 🌊🌿 Mahahual to beryllium protected, lone ecotourism allowed: On World Environment Day, Sheinbaum and Environment Minister Alicia Bárcena said the authorities volition contented a peculiar decree to support Mahahual successful Quintana Roo, blocking large-scale tourism projects similar the precocious canceled Royal Caribbean megaproject and prioritizing community-backed, environmentally affable tourism.
• ⚖️ Ayotzinapa case: apprehension of ex-soldier successful U.S.: Sheinbaum confirmed the apprehension successful California of erstwhile worker Enrique Martínez Chávez, wanted successful Mexico for enforced disappearance successful transportation with the 2014 Ayotzinapa case. She said helium is taxable to a Mexican apprehension warrant and volition look justness here, with the Attorney General’s Office to supply further details.
• 👩‍🏫🏛️ No unit against CNTE teachers’ campy successful CDMX: Sheinbaum ruled retired evicting the CNTE-affiliated teachers’ protestation campy successful Mexico City’s historical center, saying authorities won’t usage unit and volition support seeking an statement done dialogue, adjacent though she insists the authorities cannot conscionable cardinal demands owed to budgetary reasons.

Why today’s mañanera matters

President Claudia Sheinbaum held her Friday greeting property league successful Coatzacoalcos, a larboard metropolis successful the Gulf Coast authorities of Veracruz. The president has often held her Friday mañaneras extracurricular Mexico City, but earlier contiguous had not done truthful successful immoderate time.

Early successful the property conference, caller Pemex CEO Juan Carlos Carpio announced a 93-billion-peso (US $5.3 billion) concern program aimed astatine revitalizing Mexico’s petrochemical and fertilizer industries. He said that the wealth — which volition beryllium invested successful assorted projects betwixt 2026 and 2030 — would travel from some the authorities and the backstage sector.

Speaking from Veracruz connected Friday, Transport Minister Jesús Antonio Esteva Medina shared plans for a caller span successful the large larboard metropolis of Coatzacoalcos. (Saúl López / Presidencia)

Federal officials besides presented accusation astir infrastructure concern successful Veracruz. Among the projects acceptable to beryllium built is simply a caller span — the Puente Coatzacoalcos III — that volition transverse the Coatzacoalcos River connected Federal Highway 180. Infrastructure, Communications and Transport Minister Jesús Antonio Esteva Medina said that the span volition beryllium the longest and highest span built during the existent word of government. Construction of the 5.8-billion-peso task is scheduled to beryllium completed successful aboriginal 2030.

Sheinbaum said that astir 190 cardinal pesos (US $10.9 billion) volition beryllium invested successful a scope of projects successful Veracruz during her word successful government.

That magnitude includes concern successful petrochemical, fertilizer, highway, water, biology and healthcare projects, she said. She said that further funds are being invested successful acquisition and successful payment programs successful Veracruz.

“It’s a historical concern for Veracruz,” she said.

Also of enactment astatine today’s mañanera, held connected World Environment Day, was the announcement that the authorities volition contented a decree aimed astatine protecting the situation of Mahahual, a municipality connected the confederate seashore of the authorities of Quintana Roo. Sheinbaum besides acknowledged the apprehension successful the United States of a antheral wanted successful transportation with 1 of Mexico’s astir notorious transgression cases — the disappearance of 43 students successful Guerrero much than a decennary ago.

Sheinbaum: Only ecotourism projects to beryllium allowed successful Mahahual  

Two weeks aft the national Environment Ministry canceled Royal Caribbean’s Perfect Day Mexico megaproject successful Mahahual, Quintana Roo, Sheinbaum said that the authorities intended to classify Mahahual arsenic a protected area.

“[Regarding] this country of Mahahual, wherever a large-scale tourism task was to beryllium built, the nonsubjective is to springiness it a class of extortion truthful that lone ecotourism tin instrumentality spot there,” she said.

“… Today we denote that we volition enactment with the assemblage successful the southbound of Quintana Roo [to gully up] a peculiar decree for this country truthful that large-scale tourism projects aren’t developed,” Sheinbaum said.

Environment Minister Alicia Bárcena joined the property league by video nexus from Quintana Roo to talk astir the planned decree.

“President, you instructed maine to spell to Mahahual to conscionable with the community. Mahahual is not conscionable a tourism destination, it’s an country with communities that person been guardians of their seas, their mangroves and their jungles for generations,” she said.

“We’ve listened to their concerns, their proposals and their imaginativeness successful bid to develop, together, environmentally-friendly tourism that allows economical improvement and employment to beryllium combined with biology protection. For that reason, unneurotic with the [local] population, a decree volition beryllium drawn up … to support [the environment] from large-scale tourism,” Bárcena said.

Sheinbaum acknowledges apprehension successful US of ex-soldier wanted successful transportation with Ayotzinapa case 

A newsman asked the president astir the apprehension successful California connected Wednesday of Enrique Martínez Chávez, a erstwhile Mexican worker wanted successful transportation with the 2014 disappearance and presumed execution successful Guerrero of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College.

The Los Angeles Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the apprehension connected societal media.

“Martínez is wanted successful his location state of Mexico for enforced disappearance of persons portion a subordinate of the Mexican military. He’ll stay successful ICE custody until helium tin beryllium sent home,” ICE Los Angeles said connected X.

Sheinbaum said that Martínez was taxable to an apprehension warrant successful Mexico. She said helium was detained during an ICE migration raid and had not been specifically targeted due to the fact that helium was wanted successful Mexico.

Sheinbaum said that the national Attorney General’s Office would supply much accusation astir “who this idiosyncratic is and wherefore helium is important” to investigations related to the Ayotzinapa case, which inactive hasn’t been resolved astir 12 years aft the 43 young men were abducted successful Iguala, Guerrero, connected September 26, 2014.

Other soldiers person been arrested successful transportation with the abduction, successful which the Guerreros Unidos transgression gang, Iguala municipal constabulary and the Mexican Army allegedly colluded.

Sheinbaum rules retired anticipation of removing teachers’ protestation campy successful CDMX historical center

CNTE teachers national members connected Tuesday blocked the intersection of Reforma and Insurgentes, 1 of Mexico City’s astir transited areas. (Mario Jasso/Cuartoscuro)

Sheinbaum said that authorities had nary volition of clearing a protestation campy acceptable up by CNTE-affiliated teachers successful the historical halfway of Mexico City.

“We’re not going to evict them due to the fact that that’s what they want,” she said.

“… That is what they want, that is what they’re seeking to provoke,” Sheinbaum said.

She reiterated that the authorities is seeking to scope an statement with protesting teachers done dialogue.

Earlier this week, Sheinbaum stressed that authorities would not usage unit against protesting teachers, who person tried to acceptable up campy successful the Zócalo, Mexico City’s main quadrate that volition big the FIFA Fan Festival during the upcoming World Cup.

Sheinbaum said connected Wednesday that teachers person “legitimate demands,” but stressed that it is not imaginable for the authorities to conscionable each of them. She has said connected repeated occasions that the authorities can’t conscionable each of the protesting teachers’ demands — among which is simply a request for a 100% wage emergence and the repeal of changes to their pension strategy — for budgetary reasons.