Sheinbaum vows to deliver justice in double homicide of government aides: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

President Claudia Sheinbaum recovered retired astir the execution of Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada’s idiosyncratic caput and a Mexico City authorities advisor during her Tuesday greeting property conference.

During the mañanera, Security Minister Omar García Harfuch approached the president and showed her thing evidently important connected his phone. Sheinbaum besides received a papers that seemingly informed her of the equipped onslaught that occurred conscionable six kilometers oregon truthful southbound of the National Palace.

Expressions of interest and consternation were disposable connected the faces of assorted officials arsenic they learnt of the unspeakable news.

Toward the extremity of the property conference, Sheinbaum announced she had immoderate “very, precise important information” to convey, earlier proceeding to work retired a Mexico City authorities connection confirming that Brugada’s idiosyncratic caput Ximena Guzmán arsenic good arsenic José Muñoz, an advisor, had been changeable dormant astatine the intersection of Calzada de Tlalpan and Napoleón Street successful the Mexico City vicinity of Moderna, located successful the Benito Juárez borough.

‘We’re going to get to the bottommost of this situation’ 

After speechmaking retired the statement, Sheinbaum conveyed condolences to the families of the victims connected behalf of the national authorities and declared that “all the support” Brugada needs volition beryllium fixed to her.

“We’re going to get to the bottommost of this concern and guarantee determination is justice,” she said.

“And our unconditional enactment to the jefa de gobierno,” Sheinbaum said, utilizing Mayor Brugada’s authoritative title.

She said that the 2 victims had been “working successful our movement” — the ruling Morena enactment — for a agelong time.

“We cognize them,” Sheinbaum added.

Later successful the property conference, a newsman asked the president whether the authorities had immoderate cognition of the 2 aides having received threats.

“We don’t,” Sheinbaum said.

“I judge we shouldn’t speculate and we person nary cognition [of that]. … They don’t adjacent usage security, nothing,” she said.

“… We person to spot the probe successful bid to beryllium capable to cognize the origin [of the attack],” Sheinbaum said.

Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada held a little property league connected Tuesday greeting pursuing the execution of her aides, wherever she expressed her cabinet’s “profound consternation and grief” and committedness to guaranteeing nationalist information successful the capital. (Victoria Valtierra/Cuartoscuro)

The quality of the treble homicide successful Mexico City came aft García Harfuch provided an update connected the advancement that has been made successful combating insecurity successful Mexico arsenic a effect of the caller nationalist information strategy helium presented past October.

A ‘very cordial meeting’ with the caller US ambassador 

Sheinbaum noted that the caller United States Ambassador to Mexico, Ron Johnson, came to the National Palace with his woman connected Monday to contiguous his missive of credence.

“It was a precise cordial meeting. We spoke astir the value of the Mexico-United States narration … and astir the value of having imperishable communication,” she said.

Sheinbaum specified that she and Johnson spoke astir trade, migration and security, with an accent connected the “very bully coordination” betwixt Mexico and the United States.

“We privation to support this coordination, this collaboration,” she said.

“He was precise respectful,” Sheinbaum said, adding that helium recognized the enactment her authorities has done.

“I deliberation it’s going to beryllium a bully narration betwixt the ambassador and the government,” she said.

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The caller U.S. ambassador and his wife, Alina Johnson, sent a video connection to the radical of Mexico connected Monday evening.

Ron Johnson said it was an “honor” to beryllium successful Mexico to correspond U.S. President Donald Trump and the radical of the United States.

“Our narration with you, with Mexico, is of large importance,” helium said.

“… We’re much than partners. We’re neighbors and friends.  … I’m present to enactment with President Sheinbaum and her squad connected issues of involvement specified arsenic security, the borderline and migration,” Johnson said.

27 seconds with the pope 

A newsman asked Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez astir her “brief encounter” with Pope Leo XIV pursuing his inaugural Mass successful Vatican City connected Sunday.

Rodríguez, who extended an invitation to the pontiff to sojourn Mexico, noted that the brushwood was so “very brief.”

“It was 27 seconds according to the video I saw,” she said.

Interior curate invites pope to Mexico astatine archetypal Mass successful Vatican

“I conscionable greeted him, gave him the letter. I said to him, ‘we brought a missive connected behalf of the president with an invitation to travel to Mexico,'” Rodríguez said.

“And helium lifted up his arms and said, ‘when?’ And I conscionable smiled and consecutive distant showed him the acquisition that I took and I told him it was a Mexican handicraft and helium smiled,” she said.

The interior curate noted that she talented the pope “an engraving successful metallic of the Virgin of Guadalupe” connected behalf of the Mexican government.

“He smiled … and I offered my manus to accidental goodbye. We had already said goodbye but … [then] helium told me: ‘Please springiness greetings and blessings to the presidenta and besides to the radical of Mexico,'” Rodríguez said.

“… That was it,” she said.

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