‘We want there to be zero robberies on Mexico’s highways’: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

On International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, overmuch of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s greeting property league focused connected women’s rights and the actions the national authorities is taking to amended the lives of Mexican women.

“There are respective policies of enactment for women,” noted Minister for Women Citlalli Hernández, who cited the pension programme for women aged 63 and 64 and “support for moving mothers,” among different initiatives.

President Sheinbaum invited the top-ranking women of her medication to articulation her property league connected Nov. 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. (Hazel Cárdenas/Presidencia)

Deputy Minister for Women Ingrid Gómez spoke astir the authorities inaugural called “16 Days of Activism Against Violence Toward Women,” portion of the United Nations’ “UNITE to End Violence Against Women Campaign.” (Read MND’s communicative connected the inaugural here.)

Later successful the property conference, Sheinbaum spoke astir the alleged megabloqueo (mega-bloackade) — the road blockades acceptable up crossed Mexico connected Monday by truckers and farmers, who called connected the national authorities to combat insecurity and extortion and supply much enactment for producers of crops specified arsenic maize and beans.

Sheinbaum: ‘We don’t prosecute anyone for protesting’

Sheinbaum asserted that nary of the organizers of the road blockades that were acceptable up crossed Mexico connected Monday is taxable to an progressive transgression investigation, adjacent though Federal Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez said connected Monday that “many” of them are.

“The curate was asked if it was a transgression to unopen down highways, and it is simply a crime, but that doesn’t mean that we’re going to prosecute radical for protesting — no,” she said.

“… Perhaps it was misunderstood, but Rosa Icela ne'er raised that issue,” Sheinbaum said.

However, Rodríguez did so accidental that “many of these [protest] leaders have, for galore years, had unfastened [criminal investigation] files … for the obstruction of main roads.”

“Some of them person adjacent been detained, not successful our administration, but they person a full past of blocking highways, taking implicit toll booths, etcetera. … We weren’t calved yesterday,” she said.

Farmers inhabit Ciudad Juárez customs facility, halting borderline commercialized successful protestation of h2o law

On Tuesday morning, Sheinbaum reiterated that blocking a road — arsenic occurred successful a bulk of Mexican states connected Monday — is simply a crime, earlier declaring:

“When determination is simply a protestation that has to bash with governmental oregon societal matters, with demands, we don’t prosecute anyone for protesting. That is important.”

Sheinbaum presents statistic showing a diminution successful reported robberies of freight trucks 

Sheinbaum asserted that truckers had nary crushed to protestation against insecurity connected the nation’s highways connected Monday due to the fact that the national authorities is already engaging with them connected the issue.

“They’re talking astir security. The doorway is permanently unfastened [to discuss] information issues connected highways with the National Guard, with the Interior Ministry, with the Security Ministry,” she said.

“In different words, they shouldn’t person protested due to the fact that determination is simply a imperishable moving radical connected each issues, dialog is open,” Sheinbaum said

“… So wherefore unopen down highways if determination is simply a array of dialogue?”

Sheinbaum besides presented statistic that showed that the regular mean of reported convulsive robberies of freight trucks is down 54% successful 2025 compared to 2018, a twelvemonth successful which erstwhile president Enrique Peña Nieto was successful bureau for the archetypal 11 months.

An mean of 14 convulsive robberies of trucks was reported per time successful the archetypal 10 months of 2025, compared to a regular mean of 30.3 successful 2018, according to the information the president presented.

The president’s fig of 14 motortruck robberies per time is rather antithetic from the ANTAC truckers’ association’s estimation of 54-70. (Hazel Cárdenas/Presidencia)

For his part, the president of the ANTAC truckers’ association, David Estévez, said this week that insecurity connected Mexico’s highways “has accrued since the past six-year word of authorities and shows nary motion of stopping.”

He said that betwixt 54 and 70 trucks are targeted successful robberies connected a regular basis. The discrepancy betwixt the figures helium cited and those presented by Sheinbaum whitethorn prevarication successful the quality betwixt reported robberies and existent robberies. Many crimes spell unreported successful Mexico for reasons that see a deficiency of assurance that authorities will, successful fact, investigate.

In an sentiment nonfiction published by The Hill connected Sunday, Mark Vickers, an enforcement vice president and caput of planetary logistics astatine the U.S.-based proscription security institution Reliance Partners, wrote that “organized transgression groups successful Mexico are present threatening U.S. companies and their employees.”

“I person been moving successful cross-border logistics for implicit a decennary and a fractional and I deliberation that the information situation for companies operating successful Mexico has ne'er been much analyzable than it is close now,” Vickers wrote.

“I often speech to executives astatine companies successful Mexico. One manager precocious told maine a communicative astir a motortruck operator who was kidnapped and threatened by hijackers. The operator resigned from the institution retired of fearfulness of being targeted and attacked again successful the future. This isn’t an isolated incident.”

Sheinbaum acknowledged that her authorities needs to “continue working” to combat insecurity connected highways.

“And that’s wherefore the doorway is unfastened with the National Guard, which looks aft the highways,” she said.

“… We person to support moving due to the fact that we privation determination to beryllium zero robberies connected each of Mexico’s highways,” Sheinbaum said.

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