Sheinbaum tells women ‘there is no limit’ to their ambitions: Monday’s mañanera recapped

World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaimán and assorted nonrecreational boxers attended President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Monday greeting property league to assistance beforehand the national government’s “Boxing for Peace” initiative.

Sheinbaum, Mexico’s archetypal pistillate president, subsequently took the accidental to repetition a connection she has conveyed earlier — that girls and women tin aspire to beryllium immoderate they privation to be.

Among different remarks, she acknowledged the OECD’s latest information connected unemployment and expressed discontent with the United Kingdom’s determination to assistance governmental asylum to the ex-wife of an incarcerated erstwhile politician of Veracruz.

Sheinbaum reiterates ‘there is nary limit’ to women’s ambitions  

After nonrecreational pistillate boxers encouraged women and girls to springiness boxing a try, Sheinbaum highlighted that portion women emotion their families and their children, they besides person the “right” to prosecute their ain “growth and development.”

“… Women tin beryllium immoderate we privation to be,” she said.

“… Women tin beryllium presidents, governors, mayors, firefighters, constabulary officers, soldiers, reporters, journalists, teachers, doctors [and] engineers,” Sheinbaum said.

“There is nary limit,” she added.

“Las mujeres podemos ser lo que queramos”, así lo reiteró nuestra Presidenta @ClaudiaShein durante la #MañaneraDelPueblo.

Su mensaje es claro: nary hay oficio o profesión que las mujeres nary puedan ejercer.

Trabajamos día con día en la creación de políticas públicas que impulsen… pic.twitter.com/nktnXT20Py

— Secretaría de las Mujeres (@mujeresgobmx) February 16, 2026

Sheinbaum recalled that she saw thing connected societal media that conveyed the message, “the worst happening is to person your dreams taken away.”

“Saying ‘you can’t beryllium this’ is besides discrimination,” she said.

“And sometimes it adjacent comes from the family,” Sheinbaum said earlier providing examples of the benignant of things immoderate Mexican fathers (and mothers) mightiness accidental to their daughters:

• “How are you going to survey engineering, sweetie?! That’s for men.”
• “How are you going to beryllium a mechanic?! That’s for men.”
• “How are you going to beryllium a soldier, sweetie?! That’s for men.”
• “How are you going to beryllium a journalist? You’ll beryllium moving astir each implicit the place! That’s for men.”
• “How are you going to beryllium a fighter? How are you going to beryllium a boxer?” 

Sheinbaum expressed her repudiation of specified reasoning earlier declaring, erstwhile again, that “women tin beryllium immoderate we privation to be.”

Sheinbaum: Low unemployment complaint is simply a root of pride

Later successful the property conference, a newsman told the president that Mexico has the second-lowest unemployment complaint among the 38 subordinate countries of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)

In fact, successful December 2025, Mexico had the lowest unemployment complaint among OECD countries, according to an OECD study published past Thursday.

Both Mexico and Japan had unemployment rates of 2.6% successful the last period of past year, the OECD reported.

Sheinbaum said that Mexico’s debased unemployment complaint is “a root of pridefulness for everyone.”

She quipped that the OECD unemployment information would beryllium bully to amusement to “those who accidental ‘the translation doesn’t get results'” — translation being shorthand for the Morena party-led governmental movement, known arsenic the “fourth transformation,” oregon 4T.

Sheinbaum didn’t notation that implicit fractional of Mexico’s workforce is employed successful the country’s immense informal sector.

Sheinbaum not blessed with UK’s determination to assistance asylum to Karime Macías 

A newsman asked Sheinbaum whether her medication would “protest” the determination of the U.K. authorities to assistance governmental asylum to Karime Macías, ex-wife of erstwhile Veracruz politician Javier Duarte (2010-16), who is serving a situation condemnation for wealth laundering and links to organized crime.

Jailed ex-governor, woman divorcement aft charges of fraud, embezzlement

Macías, who was arrested successful London successful 2019 but released connected bail a abbreviated clip later, is wanted successful Mexico successful transportation with her alleged engagement successful an embezzlement strategy portion she headed up the DIF household services bureau successful Veracruz. Her obtainment of governmental asylum successful the United Kingdom, wherever she has present lived for astir 9 years, allows her to debar extradition to Mexico.

Sheinbaum said that her authorities hasn’t been officially notified of the asylum decision, but declared that “we’re not successful favor” of it, and “we’re going to react” to it — i.e., kick astir it via diplomatic channels.