Sheinbaum responds to Trump’s Cuba threat: Friday’s mañanera recapped

President Claudia Sheinbaum held her Friday greeting property league successful Tijuana, the largest metropolis successful the authorities of Baja California.

“Today we’re going to yet inaugurate the archetypal signifier of the viaduct,” she said astatine the commencement of the mañanera.

Sheinbaum said that the 2nd signifier of the elevated roadway that volition link the Tijuana International Airport with the Playas de Tijuana borough of the bluish borderline metropolis volition unfastened adjacent month.

Homicides declined importantly successful Baja California successful 2025

Early successful the property conference, National Public Security System main Marcela Figueroa reported that the mean regular homicide complaint successful Baja California declined from 6.5 successful 2024 to 4.7 past year, a simplification of 28%.

The regular homicide complaint successful Baja California successful 2025 was the lowest of the past 8 years, she said.

Still, Baja California ranked arsenic Mexico’s 3rd astir convulsive authorities past twelvemonth successful presumption of full homicides, with much than 1,700 according to information presented by Figueroa earlier this month.

The National Public Security System director, Marcela Figueroa, said homicides successful Baja California declined 28% past year. (Gabriel Monroy / Presidencia)

San Felipe, located connected the Gulf of California, ranked arsenic Mexico’s 4th astir convulsive municipality successful 2025 based connected its per capita homicide rate, according to transgression information website elcri.men.

Tecate ranked arsenic the 43rd astir convulsive municipality successful the country, portion Tijuana ranked 45th, according to elcri.men.

Tijuana recorded much than 1,000 homicides past year, making it Mexico’s astir convulsive metropolis successful presumption of full murders.

More than 5,000 radical arrested successful Baja California since Sheinbaum took office 

Between Oct. 1, 2024 — the time Sheinbaum was sworn successful — and Jan. 15, a full of 5,509 radical were arrested successful Baja California for allegedly committing “high-impact” crimes, specified arsenic murders and kidnappings, Security Minister Omar García Harfuch reported.

He said that successful the aforesaid period, authorities seized 1,253 firearms successful the state, and confiscated much than 30 tonnes of narcotics, including 242 kilograms of fentanyl.

García Harfuch besides said that authorities person dismantled 3 methamphetamine labs successful Baja California during the past 15 months. Since the nationalist strategy against extortion was launched past July, 70 radical person been arrested successful the authorities for allegedly committing that crime, helium said.

Later successful the property conference, García Harfuch said that “a compartment of Los Chapitos” — a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel controlled by sons of imprisoned cause lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán — was to blasted for an onslaught connected 2 Sinaloa authorities deputies successful Culiacán connected Wednesday.

Sheinbaum responds to US program to enforce tariffs connected countries that proviso lipid to Cuba 

A newsman asked the president astir “this caller menace from President Trump” to enforce tariffs connected countries that nonstop lipid to Cuba, which, according to a study by the Financial Times this week, has conscionable “15 to 20 days” of lipid left.

The question came a time aft Trump issued an enforcement bid declaring a “national emergency” because, the U.S. president claimed, “the policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Cuba represent an antithetic and bonzer menace … to the nationalist information and overseas argumentation of the United States.”

The enforcement bid asserted that “Cuba welcomes transnational violent groups, specified arsenic Hezbollah and Hamas, creating a harmless situation for these malign groups truthful that these transnational violent groups tin physique economic, cultural, and information ties passim the portion and effort to destabilize the Western Hemisphere, including the United States.”

In his enforcement order, Trump besides said that helium had determined that it was “necessary and due to found a tariff system,” nether which “an further ad valorem work whitethorn beryllium imposed connected imports of goods that are products of a overseas state that straight oregon indirectly sells oregon different provides immoderate lipid to Cuba.”

The enforcement order, the Associated Press reported, “would chiefly enactment unit connected Mexico, a authorities that has acted arsenic an lipid lifeline for Cuba and has perpetually voiced solidarity for the U.S. adversary adjacent arsenic Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has sought to physique a beardown narration with Trump.”

Mexico is the apical lipid supplier to Cuba, but authorities lipid institution Pemex canceled plans to nonstop a shipment of crude to the Communist-run land this month. That move, Sheinbaum said earlier this week, was a “sovereign decision” alternatively than an enactment of succumbing to unit from the United States, which is pressing for authorities alteration successful Cuba.

On Friday morning, Sheinbaum thanked the newsman for his question astir Trump’s enforcement bid earlier proceeding to work retired a prepared statement.

“Number 1: Mexico unequivocally reaffirms [its committedness to] the rule of sovereignty and escaped self-determination of peoples, a cardinal pillar of our overseas argumentation and of planetary law,” she stated.

“[Number] 2: The exertion of tariffs connected countries that proviso lipid to Cuba could trigger a humanitarian situation of large reach, straight affecting hospitals, nutrient proviso and different basal services for the Cuban people. [That is a] concern that indispensable beryllium avoided done respect for planetary instrumentality and dialog betwixt the parties,” said Sheinbaum, who has said that Mexico could mediate talks betwixt the U.S. and Cuban governments.

“[Number] 3: I person instructed the curate of overseas affairs to instantly found interaction with the U.S. Department of State successful bid to precisely cognize the scope of the bid that was published [by Trump] yesterday, and besides to fto them cognize that we person to forestall a humanitarian situation for the Cuban people,” the president continued.

“And [number] 4: Mexico volition question antithetic options … to help, successful a humanitarian way, the radical of Cuba, who are going done a hard time.”

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum is informing that Trump’s menace to enforce further tariffs connected countries sending lipid to Cuba could trigger a humanitarian crisis. She besides said Mexico volition proceed to connection Cuba humanitarian support. pic.twitter.com/gbzxc6QKGq

— Belly of the Beast (@bellybeastcuba) January 31, 2026

Sheinbaum stressed that her authorities needs to find retired “the reach” of Trump’s enforcement bid because, “we don’t privation to enactment our state astatine hazard successful presumption of tariffs.”

She besides emphasized that “there are different ways to support” the radical of Cuba isolated from with oil.

“The United States is sending food, it’s sending different support,” Sheinbaum noted.

“Mexico volition ever amusement solidarity [with Cuba],” she added.

Sheinbaum suggests US could nonstop lipid to Cuba

Later successful her property conference, Sheinbaum was asked whether Mexico would halt sending lipid to Cuba if it meant that the U.S. would enforce further tariffs connected Mexican goods.

“We’re going to wait,” the president responded, stressing erstwhile again that her authorities needs greater clarity astir the Trump administration’s plans.

She subsequently told reporters that Mexico has lone sent a minimal magnitude of lipid to Cuba, though the nonstop quantities shipped to the Communist-run land successful caller times are disputed.

Mexico, via its authorities lipid institution Pemex, became the pb supplier of lipid to Cuba aft lipid exports from Venezuela — the island’s erstwhile apical supplier — dropped successful 2025. (Presidencia/Cuartoscuro)

“Yesterday, the manager of Pemex … [said that] what has been sent … is little than 1% of what Mexico produces,” Sheinbaum said, referring to shipments corresponding to contracts betwixt the authorities lipid institution and Cuba arsenic good arsenic lipid fixed to the Caribbean land arsenic humanitarian aid.

She went connected to accidental that successful Mexico, successful Cuba, and successful “other places astir the world,” refined lipid is utilized to substance cars, nationalist transport and powerfulness plants.

“Let’s ideate determination is nary electricity. Without electricity, hospitals don’t work, refrigerators don’t work, and a humanitarian concern is created, … a concern that impacts people’s lives,” Sheinbaum said.

“Our involvement is that this doesn’t hap with the Cuban people. And I judge it’s not conscionable our interest, the involvement of the government, but the involvement of each the radical of Mexico,” she said.

“And that’s what we privation to explicit to the U.S. authorities — that it’s precise important that determination isn’t a concern of humanitarian situation connected the island,” Sheinbaum said.

“So I gave instructions to the Minister of Foreign Affairs [Juan Ramón de la Fuente] to talk astir this with the U.S. government, oregon [to propose] that they nonstop lipid [to Cuba]. It’s a substance of enactment for the Cuban people,” she said.

“Of course, we don’t privation to hazard determination being much tariffs connected Mexico, bash we? Rather, via diplomatic channels, we simply question a strategy of dialogue, of communication, that ensures determination is not a superior concern for the Cuban people, who are already going done a precise hard situation,” Sheinbaum said.

Trump issued his enforcement order, titled “Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of Cuba,” the aforesaid time arsenic helium spoke to Sheinbaum by telephone.

Sheinbaum reiterated connected Friday that she and Trump didn’t sermon Cuba during their 40-minute call.

“We spoke astir the Mexico-United States relationship. The contented of Cuba wasn’t discussed,” she said.

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