Fake news, floods and faith in Mexico’s justice system: Wednesday’s mañanera recapped

“The times they are a-changin’.”

Bob Dylan wrote the opus successful the aboriginal 1960s but its celebrated refrain besides applies to Mexico today.

A judicial overhaul has commenced. Donald Trump is upending the commercialized narration betwixt the United States and Mexico. The usage of artificial quality is connected the rise.

President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir each 3 of those topics astatine her Wednesday greeting property conference, held conscionable hours aft the United States imposed 50% tariffs connected imports of alloy and aluminum. (Click present to work astir Sheinbaum’s effect to the measurement here.)

The president besides spoke astir a occupation that doesn’t look apt to spell distant anytime soon: seasonal flooding successful Mexico City.

Sheinbaum enumerates expectations of caller justices 

A newsman asked the president what she thought of the 9 radical elected arsenic Supreme Court (SCJN) justices astatine Mexico’s first-ever judicial elections connected Sunday.

Who are the 9 judges elected to Mexico’s caller Supreme Court?

“Very good, precise good,” she said of the palmy candidates, each of whom are affiliated with, seen arsenic sympathetic to, oregon were astatine slightest tacitly supported by the ruling Morena party.

“The radical decided, immoderate the radical decide,” Sheinbaum said, adding that the 5 women and 4 men elected to the SCJN are “good” choices.

Once they presume their positions, “they person to acceptable an illustration … for a profound translation of the judiciary,” she said.

“A translation successful what sense? That determination is justness for everyone successful Mexico,” Sheinbaum said.

“From my constituent of view, they person to acceptable an illustration of austerity compared to the trappings of the existent [judicial] power,” she said.

“They person to acceptable an illustration of professionalism, of the transportation of justice. They person to acceptable an illustration of change, honesty, integrity and transparency,” Sheinbaum said.

“Today, they are elected by the people. Now, from September, it’s up to them to acceptable an illustration to Mexico and to the satellite that determination tin beryllium a antithetic strategy of justice, 1 that is not based connected involvement groups, connected money, connected providing [justice] to immoderate and not to others,” she said.

“They person to go a radical of a batch of beingness … successful the consciousness that it is noted that successful Mexico, a translation of the judiciary arrived arsenic well. And it’s not a governmental matter, it’s a substance of honesty, of simplicity, of modesty, of austerity and of the transportation of justice,” Sheinbaum said.

“I deliberation they are going to bash precise well, precise well,” she said.

Sheinbaum empathizes with nationalist transit users affected by flooding successful CDMX

A newsman told the president that “thousands of people” had to locomotion much than 9 kilometers successful the rain, from the Guelatao metro presumption successful the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City to the La Paz presumption successful México state, aft work connected portion of Line A of the capital’s metro strategy was suspended connected Monday evening owed to flooding.

“They had to locomotion to get to [La Paz] to instrumentality different [form of] transport to get home. There were radical who were precise aggravated … due to the fact that they said, ‘It’s the aforesaid each year,'” the newsman said.

“And among them, determination was a woman who complained bitterly astir you,” the writer told Sheinbaum.

Metro passengers walking from the Guelatao presumption successful the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City to the La Paz presumption successful México state, aft work connected portion of Line A of the capital’s metro strategy was suspended connected Monday evening owed to flooding. (Rogelio Morales/Cuartoscuro)

“She said ‘you were lying successful furniture portion she was walking similar a pilgrim.'”

In response, Sheinbaum said that “of people determination is choler erstwhile a concern similar that occurs.”

“… If you’re stuck successful postulation for 2 hours, if you’re successful a hurry to get home, yes determination is vexation and anger, it’s understandable,” she said.

Sheinbaum, politician of Mexico City betwixt 2018 and 2023, subsequently pointed retired that “several projects” person been completed to mitigate flooding successful the capital, a communal occurrence during the yearly rainy season.

“For example, successful [the borough of] Venustiano Carranza, a precise important task was completed to trim floods successful respective neighborhoods,” she said.

“And successful this case, we’re going to be to the contented of this flood … successful this area, which has a batch of subsidence,” Sheinbaum said, referring to southeastern Mexico City.

“For that reason, arsenic well, this flooding is caused,” she said.

Fake quality and AI

A newsman asked the president astir a expected U.S. authorities connection that purported to place assorted “political leaders successful Mexico with ties to cause cartels.”

The statement, which has circulated connected societal media, was denounced arsenic “false” by the United States Embassy successful Mexico.

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Esta información es falsa. pic.twitter.com/fkJczA7nGz

— Embajada EU en Mex (@USEmbassyMEX) June 3, 2025

Sheinbaum took the accidental to talk astir fake quality and the usage of artificial quality to distort the truth.

She said that AI has been utilized to make videos that “change what I say.”

“[They use] my dependable and people it arsenic a joke,” Sheinbaum said.

She specifically called retired the quality outlet Latinus for the practice.

“They usage this strategy wherever I americium talking and they alteration my words. They person the close to knock [me], but wherefore this usage [of AI]? It doesn’t impact me, not successful the slightest. I’m conscionable giving an relationship of what happens,” Sheinbaum said.

“And past determination are frauds they do, similar calling [on people] to put successful something,” she said.

Early past year, Sheinbaum denounced a video that purported to amusement her promoting a benignant of pyramid strategy arsenic a “complete fraud.”

On Wednesday, she described claims that “one governor, different governor, different governor” person been stripped of their U.S. tourer visas arsenic “fake news.”

More “responsibility and seriousness” is required, Sheinbaum said. “Freedom ever entails responsibility.”

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