Sheinbaum pushes back on claims of strained US security relations: Monday’s mañanera recapped

At her Monday greeting property conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to a question astir a paper study that focuses connected a corruption lawsuit that has embroiled the ruling Morena party’s apical senator.

Among different remarks, Sheinbaum revealed who volition go the adjacent main of the national government’s Financial Intelligence Unit.

Sheinbaum denies that Tabasco corruption lawsuit is affecting narration with US

A newsman referred to a study successful an “international media outlet” astir Senator Adán Augusto López Hernández and his narration with Hernán Bermúdez, an alleged transgression radical person who served arsenic information curate successful Tabasco during the 2019-21 governorship of López Hernández.

She was referring to a New York Times nonfiction published nether the header “Corruption Scandal Puts Mexico’s President connected Defense Against Trump.”

“Two erstwhile officials are connected the run, accused of secretly starring a transgression group,” reported the Times, referring to Bermúdez and Leonardo Arturo Leyva Ávalos, ex-general manager of the Tabasco authorities police.

“Their aged boss, present a almighty legislator successful the president’s party, is being grilled implicit what helium knew. And the timing could not beryllium worse for Mexico’s president, who faces the corruption ungraded arsenic President Trump doubles down connected accusations that cause cartels person the Mexican authorities successful their grip,” the Times’ study continued.

“At the scandal’s halfway is the senator, Adán Augusto López Hernández, a erstwhile interior curate and politician of Tabasco State,” the paper said.

Opposition formally accuses AMLO’s ex-interior curate of ties to Tabasco transgression gang

The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) past week formally requested that the Federal Attorney General’s Office analyse López Hernández for transgression association.

On Monday morning, the aforementioned newsman told the president that the (New York Times’) study “specifically mentions that this lawsuit intensifies oregon strains the narration the authorities of Mexico maintains with the United States.”

She subsequently asked Sheinbaum her sentiment connected the matter.

“It’s not true,” the president said.

“Regarding this lawsuit and immoderate [other] case, we’ve said present we are not going to screen up for anyone, but determination indispensable beryllium investigations,” Sheinbaum said.

“… There is nary occupation of hostility [with the United States] related to this,” she declared.

Sheinbaum compared The New York Times’ reporting to a ProPublica nonfiction from May, successful which writer Tim Golden referred to a U.S. authorities “list of respective twelve [Mexican] governmental figures who person been identified by instrumentality enforcement and quality agencies arsenic having ties to the cause trade.”

“Tim Golden … [claimed] that determination was unspeakable hostility [between Mexico and the United States] due to the fact that determination were I don’t cognize however galore radical connected a list,” she said.

“And past the United States Embassy [in Mexico] released a connection that said: ‘there is nary idiosyncratic and nary list,'” Sheinbaum said.

“There are radical who don’t privation determination to beryllium a bully narration betwixt Mexico and the United States,” she added.

“There are radical who don’t privation determination to beryllium a bully narration betwixt Mexico and the United States,” Sheinbaum said connected Monday successful effect to a reporter’s question astir a caller New York Times article. (Moisés Pablo/Cuartoscuro)

Sheinbaum acknowledged determination are “differences” of opinions betwixt Mexico and the United States, but reiterated that her authorities seeks a “good relationship” with the Trump administration.

“Firstly, due to the fact that we’re commercialized partners and we privation the [USMCA] commercialized statement to proceed and for … [our] economical integration to continue,” she said 4 days aft reaching an statement with Trump that allowed Mexico to debar 30% tariffs that were owed to instrumentality effect past Friday.

“Secondly, due to the fact that millions of Mexican families unrecorded successful the United States,” Sheinbaum said.

“… There are those who look for arguments that aren’t existent successful bid to accidental ‘there is simply a peculiar tension’ … but determination isn’t,” she said.

“In fact, arsenic I person mentioned, determination is an statement we’re astir to motion connected information issues,” Sheinbaum said, adding that the bilateral pact has “very wide principles” with respect to “sovereignty, communal assurance and territorial respect.”

The president past week rejected claims that the United States has been pressuring Mexico to manus implicit politicians with alleged narco links. She besides stressed that determination is nary progressive probe against López Hernández, who near his presumption arsenic politician to go interior curate successful the authorities of erstwhile president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Sheinbaum announces caller Financial Intelligence Unit chief 

Sheinbaum announced that Omar Reyes Colmenares, ex-head of the Prevention and Social Reinsertion portion of the national Security Ministry, volition regenerate Pablo Gómez arsenic main of Mexico’s Finance Ministry’s Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), which plays an important relation successful the combat against organized crime.

Gómez volition determination to a relation heading up a statesmanlike electoral betterment commission.

Sheinbaum said that the assignment of Reyes — who is reportedly “very close” to Security Minister Omar García Harfuch — is taxable to support by the Permanent Commission of the Mexican Congress.

She said that Reyes is “a precise intelligent man” who formerly worked “in the country of penitentiary centers.”

Sheinbaum said that helium besides worked successful her Mexico City medication erstwhile she was mayor, “first successful an quality area, and aboriginal helium was liable for penitentiary centers.”

“He’s an quality specialist,” she said, adding that helium is well-suited to the UIF role.

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