Sheinbaum holds the line on sovereignty following Trump’s latest remarks: Monday’s mañanera recapped

Today’s mañanera successful 60 seconds

• Sheinbaum inaugurated a caller women’s crab infirmary successful the disadvantaged Gustavo A. Madero borough of Mexico City.

• Sheinbaum said Sunday’s International Women’s Day marches were peaceful crossed the country, with astir 100,000 women taking portion successful Mexico City alone.

• Sheinbaum pushed backmost connected Trump’s telephone for U.S. troops to run connected Mexican soil, saying “we person said no, and we proudly proceed to accidental no.”

• On the screwworm crisis, Sheinbaum said that a fly-production installation successful Chiapas is astir 2 months distant from completion.

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President Claudia Sheinbaum held her Monday greeting property league successful the Gustavo A. Madero borough of Mexico City, wherever she officially inaugurated a caller infirmary for the attraction of women with cancer.

During her Q&A league with reporters, Sheinbaum took questions from reporters connected International Women’s Day marches, U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Shield of the Americas” acme remarks and the ongoing screwworm crisis.

Why today’s mañanera matters

With U.S.-Mexico relations nether strain connected aggregate fronts, Sheinbaum’s steadfast rejection of Trump’s troop-deployment connection — delivered conscionable 48 hours aft the “Shield of the Americas” acme — signals that Mexico intends to clasp its crushed connected sovereignty.

Women’s Day marches were peaceful crossed the country

Sheinbaum said that Sunday’s International Women’s Day marches were peaceful crossed the country, with women calling for an extremity to gender-based violence, among different “legitimate demands.”

Sheinbaum noted that astir 100,000 women took portion successful a mostly peaceful march successful Mexico City.

Approximately 100,000 women took to Mexico City’s streets connected Sunday, March 8, to protestation each forms of inequality and unit against women. (Graciela López/Cuartoscuro)

She acknowledged that a tiny number of protesters committed acts of violence, but was unequivocal successful her rejection of those incidents. She asserted that “many men” participated successful acts of violence.

The convulsive fringe was “truly a minority,” she said, compared to the standard of marches held crossed the country.

Sheinbaum pushes backmost connected Trump’s ‘Shield of the Americas’ remarks

Sheinbaum responded to comments made by Trump astatine Saturday’s “Shield of the Americas” summit, wherever the U.S. president referred to Mexico arsenic the “epicenter of cartel violence” and indicated, erstwhile again, that helium would similar to deploy U.S. troops to combat cartels connected Mexican soil.

“We person said no, and we proudly proceed to accidental no,” she said, referring to her government’s rejection of Trump’s offers to nonstop the U.S. service into Mexico.

Despite her absorption to U.S. subject enactment successful Mexico, Sheinbaum reiterated that practice with Washington connected quality and different information matters continues.

Screwworm: Border reopening depends connected Washington

Sheinbaum offered an update connected the screwworm crisis, which has kept the U.S.-Mexico cattle borderline closed since the mediate of past year.

She said that a sterile fly-production installation nether operation successful Chiapas — a cardinal instrumentality successful the biologic power of the pest — is astir 2 months distant from completion.

In the meantime, teams from the Sembrando Vida (Sowing Life) reforestation/employment programme person been deploying traps to trim screwworm populations, Sheinbaum said.

With respect to a reopening of the Mexico-U.S. borderline to Mexican cattle, the president said that Mexican authorities are moving with their U.S. counterparts.

Ultimately, the reopening of the borderline to Mexican livestock “depends connected them, not connected us,” Sheinbaum said.

The bottommost line

Sheinbaum’s code connected Monday was measured but steadfast — a calibrated effect to a U.S. president who continues to propulsion astatine Mexico’s reddish lines. Trump has made it wide that helium is much than consenting to nonstop the U.S. service to Mexico, but the Mexican president has made it arsenic wide that she volition ne'er judge oregon authorize specified a deployment.

The comparatively peaceful quality of Sunday’s Women’s Day marches hands Sheinbaum a governmental dividend, giving her grounds to reason that her authorities is making tangible advancement connected women’s issues, though she acknowledged past week that “there is inactive much to beryllium done.”

Mexico News Daily

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