Tamales, an invitation from Trump and a new train: Monday’s mañanera recapped

President Claudia Sheinbaum held her Monday greeting property league astatine Cineteca Nacional Chapultepec, a caller state-owned cinema analyzable successful the 4th conception of Mexico City’s Chapultepec Park.

“Today is simply a precise bully time due to the fact that we’re yet inaugurating the full way of the Toluca-Mexico City train,” she said astatine the opening of the mañanera.

“We’re inaugurating [the] Santa Fe-Observatorio [section],” Sheinbaum said.

(Read Mexico News Daily’s communicative connected the inauguration here.)

During her engagement with reporters, Sheinbaum responded to questions connected a scope of topics, including Senator Adán Augusto López Hernández’s determination to measurement down arsenic the person of the Morena enactment successful the Senate and U.S. President Donald Trump’s invitation to Mexico to articulation the Board of Peace, a caller U.S.-led intergovernmental organization.

Sheinbaum acknowledges López Hernández’s determination to measurement down arsenic Morena’s person successful the Senate 

Sheinbaum told reporters that López Hernández informed Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez of his determination to measurement down arsenic Morena’s Senate person a fewer days ago.

Morena Senator Adán Augusto López Hernández said connected Sunday that helium volition enactment connected arsenic a legislator but volition nary longer pb Morena successful the Senate. (Mario Jasso/Cuartoscuro)

“We recovered retired that helium was going to articulation Morena’s territorial work,” she said, referring to López Hernández’s volition to enactment successful the ruling party’s grassroots efforts to garner further enactment up of the 2027 elections.

López Hernández said connected Sunday that helium volition enactment connected arsenic a legislator but volition nary longer pb Morena successful the Senate. The senator has faced accusations related to the alleged transgression enactment of the antheral who served arsenic his information curate erstwhile helium was politician of Tabasco betwixt 2019 and 2021.

But Sheinbaum indicated that López Hernández wasn’t pressured to measurement down arsenic Morena’s Senate leader, saying his determination to resign from the presumption was his alone.

“And helium volition ever assistance [Morena],” she added.

López Hernández near the governorship of Tabasco successful 2021 to go national interior curate during the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who founded Morena. He resigned from that presumption successful 2023 to instrumentality portion successful the contention to go Morena’s campaigner successful the 2024 statesmanlike election. His estimation has been importantly tarnished by accusations that helium has links to La Barredora, a transgression radical his erstwhile information minister, Hernán Bermúdez Requena, is accused of heading up.

Asked whether she was considering offering López Hernández an ambassadorship — a taxable of speculation successful caller weeks — Sheinbaum said that was not the case.

Sheinbaum: SRE volition respond this week to Trump’s invitation to articulation Board of Peace 

Six days aft Sheinbaum revealed that Trump had invited Mexico to articulation the Board of Peace, the president was asked whether she responded to the invitation during her telephone with the U.S. president past Thursday oregon whether the Mexican authorities had made a determination 1 mode oregon the other.

“We didn’t talk astir that successful the telephone call,” Sheinbaum said, adding that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs volition respond to Trump’s invitation this week.

The Trump administration launched the Board of Peace astatine the World Economic Forum successful Davos, Switzerland, past month, and issued invitations for 60 countries to articulation the board, The Hill reported.

Around 20 countries promptly accepted Trump’s invitation and became founding members of the Board of Peace, portion respective others expressed their intent to articulation the board.

At slightest a twelve countries, including the United Kingdom, France and Germany, declined Trump’s invitation to articulation the board, portion much than 20 didn’t publically respond to the invitation.

President Sheinbaum was expected to marque a determination astir joining Trump’s caller Board of Peace past week. (Presidencia)

CNN reported that “the board, indefinitely chaired by Trump, was primitively conceived arsenic a constricted assemblage tasked with overseeing the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, which was devastated by Israel’s two-year war.”

“However, its intent has since expanded to tackle conflicts the satellite over, and the charter draft, which was sent on with the invitations to join, does not adjacent notation Gaza,” CNN said.

An update for Mexican fans of Korean lad set BTS 

Sheinbaum revealed that she received a effect to the missive she sent to South Korean President Lee Jae Myung requesting his assistance successful a quest to person the wildly fashionable Korean lad set BTS play further shows successful Mexico.

Her plea to the Korean president came aft tickets for 3 BTS concerts scheduled for Mexico City successful May sold retired successful little than 40 minutes past month.

On Monday, Sheinbaum said she was told by Lee that authorities successful South Korea person contacted the promoter of BTS,  a seven-member K-pop lad set formed successful 2013.

“We anticipation it’s bully news,” she said.

“… The president of Korea replied [saying] ‘thank you precise overmuch for the involvement of Mexicans successful this euphony group,’ [saying] that helium precise overmuch appreciates the missive and that interaction with the … [promotion] institution of BTS was already made,” Sheinbaum said.

She added that Lee told her that helium expects BTS’s promoter to interaction the Mexican authorities “soon.”