Sheinbaum celebrates Mexico’s two-time flag football champs: Monday’s mañanera recapped

During her Monday greeting property conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum congratulated Mexico’s triumphant emblem footballers and criticized media outlets for their alleged nonaccomplishment to study connected caller information connected poverty.

In effect to 1 question, Sheinbaum declined to comment, a maneuver she regularly uses erstwhile she thinks that idiosyncratic other is amended qualified to respond, oregon erstwhile she wants to unopen down treatment of a peculiar contented oregon scandal.

Sheinbaum congratulates Mexico’s champion emblem shot team 

Sheinbaum noted that the Mexican women’s emblem shot squad won golden connected Sunday astatine the World Games, an Olympics-style lawsuit that was held successful Chengdu, China, betwixt August 7 and 17.

“What is the sanction of the athletics that is akin to American football? Flag football. The Mexican women won, galore congratulations, they bushed the United States,” the president said.

It was the 2nd successive World Games astatine which the Mexican women’s emblem shot squad claimed the golden medal. In some gold-medal matches — successful Chengdu this twelvemonth and successful Birmingham, Alabama, successful 2022 — Mexico defeated the United States.

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La Selección Nacional brilló en un encuentro trepidante y derrotó a Estados Unidos en una last de alto voltaje con marcador de 26-21.
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“We accidental successful Mexico, ‘pienso en oro’, that’s our signature, ‘think of the gold’, and we came with that mindset to each play of the game,” Mexico’s quarterback, Diana Flores, said aft Sunday’s match.

On Monday morning, Sheinbaum besides congratulated Mexican athletes who won medals implicit the play astatine the Junior Pan American Games successful Asunción, Paraguay, and the Masters Indigenous Games successful Ottawa, Canada.

Asked astir her support rating, Sheinbaum attacks the media 

A newsman highlighted that the president has a 74% support rating, according to the results of a canvass conducted by the institution QM Estudios successful confederation with the Heraldo Media Group.

He besides noted that lone 56% of respondents rated her enactment connected wellness attraction arsenic precise bully oregon good, compared to 84% who endorsed her show successful the country of societal programs.

Asked astir the antithetic canvass results, Sheinbaum declared that her authorities would “keep working” earlier expressing her gratitude for “the enactment of the people.”

She past segued into an onslaught connected the media, railing against “many” outlets for not reporting connected caller information that showed that much than 13 cardinal radical were lifted retired of poorness during the 2018-24 presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).

Although the president remains fashionable overall, healthcare represents a weaker spot successful her support ratings. (Galo Cañas/Cuartoscuro)

Sheinbaum singled retired the paper Reforma — which AMLO often attacked — and was besides captious of what she called “the right-wing Spanish paper ABC” for the study it published connected Saturday astir the expected program of López Obrador’s wife, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, to determination to Madrid.

For the record, Reforma did study connected the simplification successful poorness during the AMLO years.

Still, the president asserted that galore Mexican newspapers were incapable to bring themselves to people stories connected “something truthful extraordinary” arsenic 13.4 cardinal radical coming retired of poverty.

“Instead of saying ‘that’s good,’ it’s not adjacent a paper article,” she said.

“Despite this [media] violative [against the government], … determination is designation from the people,” Sheinbaum said, returning to the question astir the canvass results.

“… The enactment of the radical is due to the fact that we haven’t betrayed them,” she said.

Later successful her property conference, portion responding to an enquiry astir a Wall Street Journal file headlined “Don’t Bomb Mexico, Mr. President,” Sheinbaum asked a bid of questions of Mexican and planetary media outlets that she considers opponents of her government.

“Why don’t they speech astir the 13.4 cardinal Mexicans who came retired of poverty? Why don’t they speech astir however the minimum wage increased, astir the payment programs, astir the infrastructure projects that were built and which we’re gathering now? Why don’t they speech astir the 25% simplification successful homicides successful 11 months?”

Sheinbaum declines to remark connected execution of 8 assemblage constabulary officers 

A newsman asked the president what accusation she had received astir the execution of 8 assemblage constabulary officers successful an ambush successful Guerrero implicit the weekend.

She said the transgression was spoken astir successful the regular information furniture meeting, but told reporters that she would permission it up to information officials to study connected the case.

The massacre occurred precocious Saturday successful the municipality of Ayutla de los Libres, located successful the Costa Chica portion of Guerrero. The ambush occurred successful an country wherever the transgression groups “Los Ardillos” and “Los Rusos” are reportedly engaged successful a turf war.

As of Monday afternoon, nary arrests had been reported successful transportation with the transgression and it wasn’t wide who perpetrated the attack.

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