Quintana Roo fights crime and seaweed: Friday’s mañanera recapped

President Claudia Sheinbaum held her Friday greeting property league successful Chetumal, Quintana Roo, anterior to traveling to Guatemala to conscionable with President Bernardo Arévalo.

“It volition beryllium a little league with a batch of accusation from Quintana Roo, due to the fact that from present we’re going to Guatemala,” Sheinbaum told reporters.

“… And later, successful the afternoon, we’ll instrumentality to Campeche, to Calakmul, due to the fact that we’re going to person a trilateral gathering with the premier curate of Belize, the president of Guatemala and myself,” she said.

Homicides down successful Quintana Roo since Sheinbaum took office

Marcela Figueroa Franco, caput of the National Public Security System, presented information that showed that homicides successful Quintana Roo person trended down since Sheinbaum took bureau past October.

She highlighted that determination was an mean of 0.77 homicides per time successful the Caribbean seashore authorities successful July, a 61.3% simplification compared to past September, the last period of the six-year word of erstwhile president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Figueroa besides highlighted that the execution complaint successful Quintana Roo successful July was the lowest for that period of the twelvemonth since 2017.

She presented information that showed that homicides person declined successful Benito Juárez, the municipality that includes Cancún — the largest metropolis successful Quintana Roo and the state’s apical tourism drawcard.

There was an mean of 0.32 homicides per time successful Benito Juárez past month, a simplification of 70.6% compared to July 2024.

More than 3,000 arrests successful Quintana Roo since October

Federal Security Minister Omar García Harfuch began his presumption by thanking Quintana Roo Governor Mara Lezama for her “close coordination” connected information issues.

He told reporters that 1,300 kilograms of amerciable drugs person been seized successful Quintana Roo since Sheinbaum was sworn successful connected Oct. 1.

In the aforesaid period, García Harfuch reported that authorities person arrested 3,258 radical successful Quintana Roo for high-impact crimes specified arsenic murder, extortion and kidnapping. He besides said that astir 1,300 firearms person been seized.

The information curate noted that members of organized transgression groups and implicit 200 extortionists are among the radical who person been arrested successful Quintana Roo successful the past 10 months.

Federal Security Minister Omar García Harfuch said much than 3,000 radical person been arrested for high-impact crimes successful Quintana Roo since past October. (Presidencia)

“These results are imaginable acknowledgment to the coordination betwixt the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of the Navy, the National Guard, the Federal Attorney General’s Office, the authorities Attorney General’s Office, the authorities of Quintana Roo and its authorities,” García Harfuch said.

Governor says much than 8,000 caller edifice rooms to unfastened successful Quintana Roo by 2027

Governor Lezama said that 19 “new accommodation centers” (hotels, resorts and the like) with 6,339 rooms opened successful Quintana Roo successful 2024 and the archetypal fractional of 2025.

She said that betwixt present and the extremity of 2027, 23 caller “accommodation centers” with 8,353 rooms are projected to open.

Eleven hotels with much than 5,000 rooms volition unfastened earlier the extremity of 2025, Lezama said.

60,000 tonnes of sargassum removed from Caribbean Sea this year 

Lezama noted that a fleet of much than 30 boats works to region sargassum from the Caribbean Sea earlier it reaches the beaches of Quintana Roo.

“This capableness has allowed america to cod and dispose of much than 60,000 tonnes [of sargassum] truthful acold this year,” she said.

Gone sportfishing for sargassum: Mexico’s agriculture ministry declares the seaweed a nationalist resource

Lezama besides said that authorities officials person met with businesspeople to “evaluate and make up to 140 products derived from sargassum.”

Sargassum has already been utilized to marque a assortment of products including gathering materials, shoes and fertilizers.

The Mexican authorities precocious declared declared sargassum a nationalist sportfishing resource, and determination are projects to alteration the seaweed into biofuel.

Sheinbaum: ‘There is nary substance shortage’

During her Q&A league with reporters, Sheinbaum was asked astir substance shortages that person been reported this week successful Mexico City and states including Nuevo León and Chiapas.

In fact, the president asserted, determination is nary shortage of substance successful the country.

“There is fuel,” she said, explaining that the occupation is related to the transport of aforesaid to state stations.

Sheinbaum said that the contented is being resolved.

‘The beaches beryllium to the people’

A newsman from Cozumel complained that the Caribbean land is “losing its nationalist beaches” due to the fact that entree to them is being closed off. She asked the president whether her authorities would code the issue.

“We’re doing it successful Nayarit, successful Baja California Sur and we’ll beryllium blessed to enactment connected it successful Cozumel,” Sheinbaum said.

Mexican instrumentality prohibits resorts and different coastal developments from privatizing beaches, but enforcement is spotty. (Fabio Fistarol/Unsplash)

“The beaches beryllium to the people, they’re nationalist [assets] and determination has to beryllium entree to the beaches for the radical of Mexico. They can’t beryllium privatized,” she said.

“In places wherever determination is nary [public] entree to the beach, nationalist entree has to beryllium opened up,” Sheinbaum said.

“And that is what we’re doing successful antithetic places and we’ll happily look [at the issue] successful Cozumel,” she said.

Sheinbaum: ‘Mexico is successful vogue and Quintana Roo is arsenic well’

Asked again astir the United States government’s caller coercion warnings for Mexico and the interaction they could person connected tourism, Sheinbaum highlighted that tourer numbers person accrued this year, “despite immoderate alert.”

The U.S. State Department updated its question advisory for Mexico connected Tuesday, informing for the archetypal clip ever of the hazard of coercion southbound of the border. It remains to beryllium seen whether the caller proposal volition effect successful a driblet successful the fig of U.S. tourists visiting Mexico.

Sheinbaum didn’t explicit immoderate concern.

“Mexico is successful vogue and Quintana Roo is arsenic well,” she said.

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