Sheinbaum credits Mexico for decline in US overdose deaths: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

At her Tuesday greeting property conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir a scope of issues, including the simplification successful overdose deaths successful the United States past year, upcoming visits to Mexico by U.S. officials, her imaginable attendance astatine the G7 Summit successful Canada this period and the crisp diminution successful remittances to Mexico successful April.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s June 3 mañanera.

Sheinbaum: Decline successful overdose deaths successful US related to simplification successful fentanyl trafficking from Mexico 

A newsman noted that the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a diminution of astir 27% successful cause overdose deaths successful the U.S. past year.

“Provisional information from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics bespeak determination were an estimated 80,391 cause overdose deaths successful the United States during 2024 — a alteration of 26.9% from the 110,037 deaths estimated successful 2023. Annual cause overdose deaths are projected to scope their lowest level since 2019,” the CDC said successful a connection connected May 14.

The newsman suggested to Sheinbaum that the accusation would beryllium of usage to her successful conversations with United States President Donald Trump, who has often railed against the harm caused by narcotics from Mexico and adjacent imposed tariffs connected Mexican goods to unit the Mexican authorities to bash much to halt the trafficking of fentanyl.

The newsman besides said she had spoken to immoderate CDC researchers and they told her that “many” of the anti-drug strategies utilized successful the United States implicit the past twelvemonth were “copied from the Mexico model.”

Sheinbaum acknowledged the simplification successful overdose deaths and said it was “good quality for the United States and the satellite successful general.”

Sheinbaum acknowledged Mexico’s relation successful the diminution successful overdose deaths portion mentioning the interaction of the anti-overdose medicine naloxone successful the United States. (Galo Cañas/Cuartoscuro)

All deaths are achy and “a tragedy,” but fatalities owed to the “abuse of drugs and successful peculiar the maltreatment of fentanyl” are peculiarly sad, she said.

“In addition, determination is simply a decay of the idiosyncratic small by little,” Sheinbaum said.

“So, that deaths by overdose person decreased 27% is precise bully news,” she said.

The CDC said that “since precocious 2023, overdose deaths person steadily declined each month,” providing “a beardown motion that nationalist wellness interventions are making a quality and having a meaningful impact.”

Sheinbaum said that a “significant” crushed for the alteration successful overdose deaths successful the United States “has to bash with the simplification of the [illegal] passing of fentanyl from Mexico to the United States” arsenic good arsenic seizures of the almighty synthetic opioid successful the U.S.

In Mexico, a grounds magnitude of fentanyl was seized portion the erstwhile authorities led by Andrés Manuel López Obrador was successful office, and ample confiscations person continued since the existent president was sworn successful past October.

Sheinbaum said that the usage of the anti-overdose medicine naloxone has besides helped to trim drug-related deaths successful the United States.

“Analyses person to beryllium carried retired successful the United States to spot what this simplification corresponds to, but it’s precise bully that [overdose deaths] person declined,” she said.

In February, Trump thanked Sheinbaum for giving him the thought to motorboat an anti-drugs campaign, connected which helium pledged to walk “hundreds of millions of dollars.”

Sheinbaum to conscionable with Landau up of sojourn by Rubio  

Sheinbaum said that United States Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau — who served arsenic U.S. ambassador to Mexico betwixt 2019 and 2021 — would sojourn Mexico adjacent week up of a sojourn by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“He’s coming, I understand, betwixt June 9 and 10 to hole for Rubio’s sojourn later,” she said.

“… We’re going to talk astir a batch of issues,” Sheinbaum said.

Rubio said connected May 21 that helium “intended to question perchance to Mexico” successful “the adjacent fewer weeks” to sermon information and different matters.

In an appearance earlier the United States House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee, helium besides said that the Mexican authorities has been “very responsive connected our information concerns” and “increased their information practice with us.”

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Sheinbaum inactive hasn’t decided whether she volition be G7 Summit successful Canada

Six days aft Sheinbaum confirmed that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had invited her to attend the Group of Seven (G7) Leaders’ Summit successful Kananaskis, Alberta, from June 15 to 17, a newsman asked the president what was stopping her from confirming her attendance astatine the meeting.

“There are respective issues we person to resolve,” Sheinbaum responded.

Asked whether the statement of a gathering with Trump astatine the acme was 1 of them, the president lone said:

“Until now, what determination is is an invitation from the premier curate of Canada to be the summit, which I’m precise grateful for. As I told you, Mexico is not portion of the G7 truthful we would be arsenic a impermanent country. I deliberation that successful a week, much oregon less, we’ll measure the situation. You ever person to measure the concern successful the state successful bid to leave.”

Sheinbaum said that if she does determine to spell to the summit, she would be for conscionable 1 day.

“We’re going to measure it and we’ll fto you know,” she said.

Decline successful remittances ‘probably’ related to Trump’s ‘new migration policy,’ says Sheinbaum

Sheinbaum acknowledged that remittances to Mexico declined 12.1% annually successful April, the largest year-over-year alteration for immoderate period since 2012.

“We’re moving to spot what the crushed is,” she said, adding that the authorities is collaborating with U.S.-based migrants’ associations to find retired wherefore remittances declined.

“Until we person much information, we can’t accidental what the crushed is,” Sheinbaum said.

She said that the fig of Mexicans who person precocious returned to Mexico (including owed to deportation) is not “so significant” that it tin explicate the diminution successful remittances successful April.

“So we person to find retired precisely what’s happening. It’s astir apt thing that has to bash with the caller migration argumentation that President Trump has implemented. But we’re not getting up of ourselves, we’re not speculating,” Sheinbaum said.

In a post to X connected Monday, Gabriela Siller, manager of economical investigation astatine Banco Base, said that the diminution successful remittances successful April was owed to the “deterioration of the labour marketplace successful the United States and migrants’ fearfulness of being deported,” which leads to them “avoid going retired to enactment and/or nonstop remittances.”

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