CDMX museum closures and cellphones in schools: Thursday’s mañanera recapped

The usage of compartment phones successful schools, the apprehension of 11 Colombians successful Michoacán and the closure connected Wednesday of six Mexico City museums were among the topics President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir astatine her Thursday greeting property conference.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s June 5 mañanera.

Should compartment phones beryllium allowed successful schools?

A newsman asked the president astir a connection successful Jalisco to prohibition compartment phones successful superior and mediate schools.

Sheinbaum said it was up to idiosyncratic states to determine whether to prohibit phones successful schools oregon not, but asserted that it’s “important” that they not beryllium utilized successful classrooms oregon during students’ interruption time.

“In different words, children should person a abstraction wherever they don’t person to beryllium utilizing their phone,” she said.

“… There are a batch of studies astir the interaction the intensive usage of compartment phones has connected girls and boys,” Sheinbaum said, adding that telephone usage tin lend to “learning problems and galore different issues.”

Sheinbaum said immoderate studies person shown that overuse of compartment phones tin negatively impact kid development. (Moisés Pablo Nava/Cuartoscuro)

“So it’s important that it not beryllium used. A prohibition  — that’s a determination for each [federal] entity,” she said.

Rather than banning the usage of phones successful schools, Sheinbaum said that her authorities favors educating children astir wherefore they shouldn’t usage the devices successful the classroom.

“The volition of a person, of the child, is better; that helium oregon she larn wherefore not to usage it,” she said.

Sheinbaum acknowledges apprehension of Colombians successful transportation with National Guard deaths 

A newsman highlighted that Colombian President Gustavo Petro “declared that determination is engagement of Colombian mercenaries successful Mexican cause cartels.”

Petro was referring to 11 erstwhile Colombian soldiers who were arrested past week successful transportation with the decease of 8 members of the National Guard, who were killed by the detonation of a onshore excavation successful the municipality of Los Reyes, Michoacán, connected May 27.

Six Mexicans were besides detained successful transportation with the crime.

Seventeen radical were arrested successful transportation to the deadly onshore excavation explosion, including 11 erstwhile Columbian soldiers. (Omar García Harfuch/X)

Sheinbaum acknowledged that a fig of Colombians were among the “members of a transgression group” who were arrested. She was referring to the Cártel de los Reyes, based successful Los Reyes, Michoacán.

“It’s not the archetypal clip that radical of this nationality person been arrested [in Mexico]. In Mexico City, erstwhile I was mayor, determination were besides arrests of [people] of different nationalities, but peculiarly Colombians,” Sheinbaum said.

She said she had spoken to Petro astir creating a “high-level group” to analyse “security issues betwixt Colombia and Mexico.”

“… There is coordination and we’re strengthening information, the capableness for associated collaboration,” Sheinbaum said.

Asked whether she could corroborate the beingness of Colombian “mercenaries” successful Mexican organized transgression groups, she said:

“There person been arrests. … You tin inquire connected Tuesday truthful that the information curate provides greater details, but determination person been arrests successful Mexico … [of] radical of Colombian nationality.”

Mexico City museums reopen 

A newsman asked the president astir the closure connected Wednesday of assorted museums successful Mexico City owed to problems related to the hiring of information personnel.

The National Anthropology Museum and the National History Museum successful the Chapultepec Castle were among six museums affiliated with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) that unopen their doors.

After unexpected mid-week closures, the National Anthropology Museum and different INAH-run sites reopened Thursday. (Andrea Murcia/Cuartoscuro)

Sheinbaum assured reporters that the museums would reopen connected Thursday, and that so was the case.

She said that “there was a problem” related to the awarding of contracts aft INAH ran a bidding process to find caller information unit for their museums.

“That’s wherefore they closed,” Sheinbaum said.

Asked whether backstage information unit oregon constabulary would beryllium connected work astatine the museums connected Thursday, the president said officers with the capital’s Policía Auxiliar, oregon Auxiliary Police, unit would beryllium present.

In 2024, the National Anthropology Museum and the National History Museum were the 2 most-visited museums successful Mexico City, which has a full of 189 museums, according to the metropolis government.