Interior minister celebrates Mexico’s new water law: Friday’s mañanera recapped

With President Claudia Sheinbaum successful Washington D.C. for the 2026 FIFA World Cup draw, Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez took complaint of the national government’s Friday greeting property conference.

Here is simply a recap of the Dec. 5 mañanera.

Rodríguez responds to support of contentious h2o legislation

Rodríguez thanked national deputies and senators for their support of a arguable h2o measure that ample numbers of farmers person protested against, including by blocking highways successful the bulk of Mexico’s states.

The authorities creates a caller General Water Law and modifies the existing National Water Law.

Rodríguez said that the caller authorities volition supply “support and certainty” for agriculture and different “productive activities” successful Mexico, adjacent though farmers person asserted that the laws volition negatively interaction their capableness to entree h2o via their existing concessions.

The interior curate said that the authorities volition combat h2o hoarding (acaparamiento) and “the concentration” of h2o successful the hands of a tiny fig of people.

Mega-blockades proceed into their 4th time arsenic their effects commencement to hurt

She besides said the authorities volition “bring order” to “everything related to h2o issues.”

“So I deliberation it’s worthy congratulating the Congress for [approving] this measure submitted by the president,” Rodríguez said.

She said that farmers’ concerns astir the authorities — including that their capableness to bequeath and inherit h2o concessions would beryllium taken distant — were addressed by modifications to the measure that passed Congress.

Rodríguez highlighted that a fig of organizations supported the legislation, though it has been vehemently opposed by others, including the National Front for the Rescue of the Mexican Countryside and the Movimiento Agrícola Campesino, a farmers’ group.

She pointed retired that organizations specified arsenic the National Agriculture Council and the National Irrigators Association came retired successful favour of the legislation.

Rodríguez said that laws volition beryllium promulgated soon via work successful the national government’s authoritative gazette.

Rdoríguez: Millions of Mexicans present person a biometric CURP

A newsman asked Rodríguez however galore radical person already applied for and received a biometric CURP, an individuality papers that contains biometric data, including fingerprints and iris scans.

The interior curate said she didn’t person the nonstop number, but estimated the fig to beryllium “several million.”

The authorities began linking biometric accusation to the CURP, a nationalist recognition number, with the stated purpose of addressing Mexico’s missing persons crisis. (Graciela López/Cuartoscuro)

In August, the manager of Mexico’s National Population Registry said that 27 cardinal radical had completed the process to get a biometric CURP.

Rodríguez besides said that the authorities “has done precise well” successful the enactment related to the rollout of the biometric CURP. She assured Mexicans that the idiosyncratic information they supply to get the papers is harmless and secure.

In June, Congress approved reforms to existing laws that let for the instauration of the biometric CURP.

The national government’s main stated crushed for the instauration of the papers — an enhanced mentation of the existing CURP (a nationalist ID code) — was to assistance combat Mexico’s missing persons crisis.

There has been important contention astir the instauration of a caller individuality papers that contains biometric data, with critics raising a scope of concerns astir the postulation and retention of idiosyncratic information. (Read MND’s explainer connected the biometric CURP here.)

6 years of AMLO + 1 twelvemonth of Sheinbaum = 7 years of the 4T

Rodríguez concluded the mañanera with the presumption of a abbreviated video released by Sheinbaum to people the seventh day of the “fourth transformation” (4T) governmental question and to invitation supporters to articulation her successful Mexico City’s cardinal square, the Zócalo, this Saturday for a solemnisation of that anniversary.

“I privation to stock a reflection with you,” Sheinbaum says successful the video.

“This past month, we experienced a barrage of campaigns and slander against what we represent. They’ve invented a fig of unspeakable things and each due to the fact that we’re a question that is successful powerfulness contiguous and which volition ne'er divided from the radical due to the fact that authorities and radical are the same,” continues the president, whose authorities was criticized during ample protests against insecurity successful November.

“We privation the well-being of the people, the sovereignty of Mexico, [we basal for] the combat for democracy, for existent freedoms,” Sheinbaum says.

“We are the question of the 4th transformation.”

Backed by the Morena enactment and its allies, the 4th translation governmental task officially began erstwhile erstwhile president Andrés Manuel López Obrador took bureau connected Dec. 1, 2018.

AMLO, Sheinbaum and others assertion that the 4T question is bringing a peaceful translation to Mexico that is arsenic important arsenic 3 erstwhile transformations, namely independency from Spain successful the aboriginal 19th century, the enactment of sweeping betterment laws (La Reforma) successful the 1850s and the Mexican Revolution successful the aboriginal 20th century.

At her Monday greeting property conference, Sheinbaum, who present leads the 4T, outlined a scope of “results” it has achieved successful the past 7 years, including lifting much than 13 cardinal radical retired of poorness and expanding the minimum wage 125% successful existent terms.

In her video, Sheinbaum invites Mexicans to articulation her successful the Zócalo astatine 11 a.m. this Saturday to observe those achievements, and the seventh day of the 4T.

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