Sheinbaum responds to scrutiny of Mexico’s monetary policy: Wednesday’s mañanera recapped

President Claudia Sheinbaum faced questions connected a scope of topics astatine her Wednesday greeting property conference, including the Bank of Mexico’s monetary policy, a study by The Wall Street Journal and Mexico’s practice astatine the upcoming World Economic Forum gathering successful Switzerland.

She besides responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s assertion that the USMCA escaped commercialized pact provides “no existent advantage” to the United States. (Read Mexico News Daily’s study connected Trump’s remarks and Sheinbaum’s effect here.)

Here is simply a recap of Sheinbaum’s Jan. 14 mañanera.

Sheinbaum praises Bank of Mexico governor, arsenic Moody’s asserts that Mexico’s monetary argumentation has ‘lost credibility’

Asked astir the value of maintaining a “healthy distance” betwixt the national authorities and the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) and its formulation of monetary policy, Sheinbaum said that the autonomy of the cardinal slope is “very important.”

She went connected to praise Banxico politician Victoria Rodríguez, saying that she has done a “very good” occupation arsenic politician of the cardinal bank.

“She’s a precise nonrecreational woman, precise studious,” Sheinbaum said.

Banxico politician Victoria Rodríguez Ceja. (Daniel Augusto/Cuartoscuro)

The president subsequently noted that Rodríguez, “with the support” of Banxico’s lawman governors, has been lowering the cardinal bank’s benchmark involvement rate.

Indeed, the bank’s committee chopped the cardinal complaint by 300 ground points successful 2025, adjacent though ostentation remained good supra Banxico’s 3% people passim the year. The bank’s involvement complaint is presently acceptable astatine 7%.

Sheinbaum’s remarks astir Rodríguez and Banxico came 2 days aft the economical probe subsidiary of recognition standing bureau Moody’s released a insubstantial asserting that “a premature easing” of involvement rates successful Mexico “has eroded the cardinal bank’s credibility.”

“Building credibility requires a important magnitude of clip and effort, but losing it is comparatively easy,” states the Moody’s Analytics document, authored by the company’s manager for Latin America, Alfredo Coutiño.

“Unfortunately, Mexico’s monetary argumentation has mislaid credibility successful caller years. Neither the marketplace nor analysts judge that the existent argumentation is effectual successful achieving the ostentation target,” Coutiño wrote.

“… To execute ostentation convergence and, consequently, reconstruct credibility, the cardinal slope needs to negociate monetary argumentation with a beardown committedness to terms stability. This means making a decisive shift: reversing monetary easing,” helium wrote.

Sheinbaum: US has ne'er pressured Mexico to apprehension Morena politicians with suspected cartel ties 

A newsman asked the president astir a Wall Street Journal study that, citing unnamed sources, said that high-level Mexican information officials “have held a bid of backstage meetings since [Venezuelan President Nicolás] Maduro was deposed wherever they discussed the anticipation of untenable demands from Trump beyond U.S. subject action, including the imaginable arrests of politicians from Sheinbaum’s enactment the U.S. believes person cartel ties.”

Sheinbaum said that the thought of arresting Morena enactment politicians has “never” been raised by the U.S. government, not successful information meetings betwixt Mexican and U.S. officials nor successful her galore telephone conversations with Trump.

Baja California Gov. Marina del Pilar Ávila and her hubby Carlos Torres some mislaid their U.S. visas successful 2025. (@MarinadelPilar/X)

Last year, the president described reporting from Reuters that the Trump medication is pressuring Mexico to spell aft politicians with suspected narco ties arsenic “completely false.”

On Wednesday morning, a newsman noted that it has been said that the U.S. authorities is pressuring Mexican authorities to analyse radical specified arsenic Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya and erstwhile Tabasco politician Adán Augusto López Hernández, presently Morena’s person successful the Senate.

Sheinbaum said that lone “some media outlets, and not the media” successful general, “say that.”

“… The Wall Street Journal report, [although] I don’t cognize precisely what it said,  … has thing to bash with what was spoken astir successful [Monday’s] telephone [with Trump],” she said earlier reiterating that the detention of Morena enactment politicians has “never” been raised successful talks with the U.S. government.

Environment curate to correspond Mexico astatine WEF meeting 

Sheinbaum told reporters that Environment Minister Alicia Bárcena volition correspond the Mexican authorities astatine the World Economic Forum’s yearly gathering successful Davos, Switzerland, aboriginal this month.

She said that Bárcena volition talk astir “development with justice” arsenic good arsenic the “Mexican model” and biology issues astatine the meeting.

The situation curate has plentifulness of acquisition connected the satellite stage, having served arsenic overseas affairs curate betwixt 2023 and 2024 and Mexico’s ambassador to Chile earlier that.

Bárcena besides served arsenic enforcement caput of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean betwixt 2008 and 2022.

Sheinbaum said that Altagracia Gómez, caput of the government’s Advisory Council for Regional Development and Relocation, volition besides be the Jan. 19-23 WEF gathering successful Davos, which volition bring unneurotic political, concern and civilian nine leaders from astir the world.

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