‘October 2 is not forgotten’: Thursday’s mañanera recapped

“Today is October 2,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said astatine the commencement of her Thursday greeting property conference.

“October 2 is not forgotten,” she added.

A information of the greeting property league was dedicated to remembering the subject massacre. (Juan Carlos Buenrostro / Presidencia)

Thursday is the 57th day of the Tlatelolco massacre, successful which hundreds of protesting students were killed by the subject successful Mexico City.

Sheinbaum expressed her government’s “solidarity” with the students who died connected Oct. 2, 1968, and with “all of the governmental prisoners” of that time.

“This is the archetypal thing,” she said earlier ceding halfway signifier to Energy Minister Elena Luz González, who outlined 2 caller regulations for the proscription and organisation of LP gas.

Football implicit finance 

A newsman asked Sheinbaum astir the disapproval the Morena party’s apical senator, Adán Augusto López Hernández, faced aft helium was caught watching a shot lucifer connected his tablet successful the Senate during an quality connected Wednesday by Finance Minister Édgar Amador.

The president responded that the contented didn’t interest her.

Asked whether López Hernández’s behaviour affected the representation of Morena, Sheinbaum responded:

“I’m not going to get progressive successful that.”

Morena is Mexico’s ruling party, founded by erstwhile president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Sheinbaum represented the enactment successful the 2024 statesmanlike election.

López Hernández could conceivably spot the disapproval implicit his shot watching successful the Senate arsenic a invited distraction from the accusations helium faces related to the alleged transgression enactment of the antheral who served arsenic his information curate erstwhile helium was politician of Tabasco.

Hernán Bermúdez Requena, information curate successful Tabasco betwixt 2019 and 2024, is accused of heading a Jalisco New Generation Cartel-affiliated transgression radical called La Barredora. He was arrested successful Paraguay past period and is present successful a national situation successful México state.

Watching sports during enactment hours is 1 of the little superior charges Morena legislator Adán Augusto López Hernández has faced recently. (Graciela López / Cuartoscuro)

Opposition politicians and others person claimed it is not imaginable that López Hernández was unaware of the alleged transgression enactment of his information curate successful Tabasco.

* In lawsuit you were wondering, López Hernández was watching the UEFA Champions League lucifer betwixt Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, which the second squad won 2-1.

A fortified National Palace 

A newsman asked the president astir the metallic barriers that person been installed astir the National Palace, located other the Zócalo, Mexico City’s main square, successful the historical halfway of the capital.

The barriers were erected up of the yearly march that takes spot connected Oct. 2 to commemorate the Tlatelolco massacre.

Sheinbaum said that the barriers person been enactment up to support the National Palace during protests for “years.”

“… There are these groups who screen their faces and transportation retired actions with unsafe devices,” she said, adding that connected galore occasions they person attempted to acceptable alight the National Palace’s main door.

The metallic barricades were already successful spot successful the capital’s Zócalo connected Monday erstwhile the enactment Comité 68 held a property league up of Thursday’s commemorative activities. (Mario Jasso / Cuartoscuro)

“If you enactment constabulary successful beforehand of a concern of this benignant wherever determination is aggression, determination volition beryllium a confrontation,” Sheinbaum said.

“And, successful addition, you enactment the constabulary astatine hazard due to the fact that the Mexico City police, astatine least, are trained not to repress but simply to contain,” said the erstwhile Mexico City mayor.

“So it’s amended to enactment up a carnal obstruction to debar this situation, alternatively than having a confrontation with constabulary officers,” Sheinbaum said.

No program to interruption diplomatic relations with Israel

After she denounced Israel’s interception of a flotilla transporting assistance to Gaza and called for the contiguous repatriation of six Mexicans who were detained by Israeli forces, Sheinbaum was asked whether her authorities would interruption disconnected diplomatic relations with Israel.

“Until present it has not been considered,” the president said.

Sheinbaum subsequently highlighted that Mexico was among “the archetypal countries” to record a ailment successful The Hague related to the struggle successful Gaza.

Sheinbaum calls for contiguous instrumentality of Mexicans detained by Israel

In January 2024, Mexico and Chile “referred the concern successful the State of Palestine to the International Criminal Court for probe into the probable committee of crimes wrong its jurisdiction,” according to Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Sheinbaum besides noted that her authorities formally recognized the Palestinian Embassy successful Mexico.

“It had not been recognized arsenic such” before, she said.