DEA calls Calderón’s security minister a drug lord: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

At her Tuesday greeting property conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum was asked astir the remarks Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada made successful a United States tribunal connected Monday and the U.S. government’s deployment of warships to planetary waters adjacent Venezuela.

At the extremity of her property conference, she recovered immoderate clip to contiguous immoderate promotional videos up of a State of the Union-style code she volition present adjacent week.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s Aug. 26 mañanera.

Sheinbaum highlights DEA administrator’s remarks astir García Luna, ‘El Chapo’ and ‘El Mayo’

A newsman asked the president her sentiment astir the connection Sinaloa Cartel person “El Mayo” Zambada work retired successful a U.S. national tribunal connected Monday aft helium pleaded blameworthy to cause trafficking charges.

Sheinbaum didn’t remark connected Zambada’s statement, but said that what astir caught her attraction connected Monday was a remark Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Terrance Cole made astir the lawsuit during a property league successful New York.

“In his statement, helium says: ‘We’ve taken down 3 ample cause traffickers. The archetypal García Luna, the 2nd El Chapo and the 3rd El Mayo,” she said, referring to erstwhile information curate Genaro García Luna — who successful 2023 was recovered blameworthy of colluding with the Sinaloa Cartel — arsenic good arsenic convicted cause lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera and Zambada.

“In different words, the DEA head puts 2 well-known cause capos connected the aforesaid level arsenic Calderón’s information minister,” Sheinbaum said, referring to erstwhile president Felipe Calderón.

“… It’s interesting, no? Don’t you deliberation that’s interesting?” said the president, who paraphrased Cole’s remarks alternatively than repeating them verbatim.

“… It truly caught my attraction erstwhile … [Cole] mentioned [García Luna]. There are a batch of absorbing things from yesterday, but we’ll permission it astatine that,” said Sheinbaum, an ardent professional of Calderón and the 2006-12 authorities helium led.

‘We’re against interventions,’ says Sheinbaum erstwhile asked astir ‘possible’ US penetration of Venezuela 

A newsman noted that determination has been a batch of speech successful the planetary media and connected societal media astir a “possible” U.S penetration of Venezuela, ruled by President Nicolás Maduro, who the U.S. authorities accuses of starring a cause cartel.

The Miami Herald reported connected Sunday that “as 3 Navy destroyers and 3 amphibious warships determination toward the seashore of Venezuela this play successful an ostensible U.S. counternarcotics operation, the Trump administration’s amusement of unit is rekindling memories of different presidency, epoch and country.”

“In mid-December 1989, President George H.W. Bush ordered a subject penetration of Panama, saying its strongman leader, Manuel Noriega, a one-time American state and CIA informant, was a menace to U.S. interests successful the Canal Zone and a corrupt wide wanted connected drug-trafficking charges,” the study continued.

Asked what Mexico’s presumption is “amid this planetary tension,” Sheinbaum said that her authorities is “against interventions.”

She said that the Mexican Constitution intelligibly sets retired that Mexico, successful its overseas policy, indispensable reason “interventionism” and support people’s close to self-determination.

“That volition ever beryllium our position,” Sheinbaum said.

Sheinbaum presents her ‘spots‘

At the extremity of her property conference, Sheinbaum played the archetypal 3 of assorted 30-second video clips that beforehand her medication up of her archetypal authorities report, which she volition contiguous to Congress, and successful a large speech, adjacent Monday.

The ads are called “spots” successful Spanish.

In her archetypal 3 spots, Sheinbaum speaks astir her government’s goals, achievements and principles. In the clips, she focuses connected wellness attraction initiatives, payment programs and poorness reduction, among different issues.

“We’re a authorities for the people. That’s wherefore the translation advances,” Sheinbaum says successful 1 of her ads.

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