Sheinbaum defends the military’s place in daily life: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

The FIFA men’s World Cup trophy made an quality astatine the extremity of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Tuesday greeting property league arsenic portion of its Coca-Cola-sponsored circuit of Mexico up of the commencement of the quadrennial tourney successful Mexico City connected June 11.

The president adjacent held the trophy aloft, eliciting applause from the property corps and Coca-Cola México president Louis Balat, among others.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup trophy visited the president’s property league connected Tuesday morning. (Galo Cañas/Cuartoscuro)

Earlier successful the mañanera, Sheinbaum responded to questions connected a scope of topics, including the Mexican military, which has been successful the spotlight precocious aft carrying retired an cognition against the now-deceased Jalisco New Generation Cartel person Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes.

Sheinbaum defends usage of subject successful nationalist information tasks 

After noting that the equipped forces person played a salient relation successful Mexico successful caller years, a newsman asked the president “what conditions” would beryllium required successful bid to trim the “participation” of the service successful “the nationalist beingness of the country.”

Sheinbaum didn’t straight reply the question, alternatively launching into a lengthy defence of the Mexican military.

“It’s legal, that’s the archetypal thing,” she said, referring to the usage of the equipped forces for nationalist information tasks.

“We are not doing thing illegal, arsenic [ex-president Felipe] Calderón did astatine the time. Felipe Calderón deployed the Army and Navy successful the celebrated ‘war connected drugs,’ and determination were nary ineligible grounds for doing so,” Sheinbaum said, referring to the militarized warfare connected cartels the erstwhile president launched soon aft helium took bureau successful 2006.

“… Now determination is simply a ineligible model for doing so. So, that is important,” she said.

Broadening her disapproval of Calderón’s 2006-12 government, Sheinbaum highlighted that Mexico “had a information curate who was linked to drug-trafficking.”

Although she didn’t notation him by name, she was referring to Genaro García Luna, who was Calderón’s information curate but is present serving a lengthy situation condemnation successful the United States aft helium was convicted successful 2023 of colluding with the Sinaloa Cartel.

Sheinbaum pointed retired that the National Guard is present portion of the Ministry of National Defense, but highlighted that it has a antithetic enactment from that of the Mexican Army.

She besides stressed that National Guard members person antithetic grooming from soldiers, grooming that is focused connected nationalist information alternatively than nationalist security. Strengthening the astir seven-year-old information unit is 1 of the halfway tenets of the national government’s information strategy.

After heaping praise connected the Mexican Army — which she described arsenic “something special” and “unique successful the world” — Sheinbaum rejected claims made by non-governmental organizations and others that Mexico has been militarized by her authorities and its predecessor, which enactment the subject to enactment connected a scope of non-traditional tasks specified arsenic gathering infrastructure and managing ports.

“This thought of ‘militarization’ that is being promoted is not true,” she said, earlier highlighting that she, alternatively than subject personnel, has the eventual work for governing the country.

“Due to the determination of the radical of Mexico, I americium the ultimate commandant who makes the decisions,” she said.

Sheinbaum: No grounds that remittances are being utilized to launder money 

A time aft the Bank of Mexico published remittances information for January, Sheinbaum asserted that determination is nary grounds that the transportation of remittances to Mexico is linked to wealth laundering.

“There is thing successful the investigations that could suggest that remittances are related to immoderate contented of wealth laundering, nothing,” she said.

Remittances to Mexico continued their downturn successful January

Sheinbaum said that the Finance Ministry’s Financial Intelligence Unit has investigated and recovered nary links betwixt remittances and wealth laundering.

A 2023 survey by the deliberation vessel Signos Vitales recovered that astir 7.5% of the much than US $58 cardinal successful remittances sent to Mexico successful 2022 could beryllium linked to cause trafficking, portion past twelvemonth U.S. authorities accused 3 Mexican fiscal institutions of laundering millions of dollars for cause cartels.

Sheinbaum highlighted connected repeated occasions that the U.S. authorities didn’t supply grounds to backmost up their accusations against CIBanco, Intercam and the brokerage steadfast Vector, each of which person ceased operating successful Mexico. Last November, she besides noted that Mexican authorities didn’t find immoderate grounds showing that the fiscal institutions had links to organized transgression oregon engaged successful wealth laundering.