Supporting Mexican businesses and homegrown talent: Friday’s mañanera recapped

President Claudia Sheinbaum held an antithetic property league connected Friday morning: It lasted little than an hr and she didn’t instrumentality immoderate questions from reporters. As a result, she didn’t look questions astir unit that broke retired precocious Thursday successful Mexico City astatine a march to commemmorate the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre.

The main absorption of the abbreviated mañanera was the “Viernes muy mexicano” (Very Mexican Friday) inaugural and the México Canta singing competition, which volition signifier its expansive finale this Sunday.

Buy Mexican, store local 

Viernes Muy Mexicano is simply a public-private inaugural designed to promote consumers to bargain Mexican products and usage Mexican services, particularly those connected connection astatine family-run businesses successful their ain communities alternatively than astatine multinational chains.

The objective, according to the Viernes Muy Mexicano website, is to “strengthen pride, consumption, and nationalist individuality successful mundane beingness by promoting the depletion of Mexican products each Friday.”

Every Friday participating businesses connection promotions, discounts and “special experiences,” the website says. “The past Friday of each period volition person greater visibility and participation.”

The inaugural — which successful portion tin beryllium seen arsenic a effect to United States’ protectionism — began successful September. It complements the government’s renewed promotion of the Hecho en México (Made successful Mexico) branding of locally-made products.

Octavio de la Torre Stéffano, president of a confederation of chambers of commerce, gave an update connected a programme to beforehand section businesses each Friday. (Gabriel Monroy / Presidencia)

On Friday morning, the president of the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism provided an update connected the initiative.

Octavio de la Torre Stéffano said that connected the archetypal time that the inaugural ran, which was past Friday, 23,335 “family businesses” crossed each 32 national initiatives participated.

“The states with the astir registrations were Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Guanajuato, Puebla and Mexico City,” helium said.

“Among the municipalities with the astir promotions were Ciudad Victoria, León, Puebla, Campeche and Puerto Vallarta,” de la Torre said.

Participating businesses person stickers and posters to beforehand their information successful the Viernes Muy Mexicano initiative.

De la Torre said that restaurants, hardware stores and quality salons were among the businesses that participated past Friday.

Red and greenish pinwheel stickers and posters people concern arsenic participants successful the programme Viernes Muy Mexicano. (Screenshot)

He said that the inaugural supports “local employment” and contributes to “community safety.”

“Presidenta,” de la Torre added.

“Viernes Muy Mexicano is aligned with Plan México, … it strengthens the interior market, promotes shared prosperity and recognizes the household concern arsenic the backbone of the economy,” helium said.

“…I besides privation to stress thing important. This is not conscionable a discount campaign, this is the system with a quality face. When we take a vicinity restaurant, a hardware store, a shop, oregon a salon successful our community, what we are doing is financing household scholarships, helping to wage rents, sustaining learning, generating and maintaining trades, and supra all, preventing income from escaping extracurricular the community,” de la Torre said.

“For us, that is mundane sovereignty; it is wherever we determine that wealth successful circulation should stay successful our country,” helium said.

Record deals up for grabs successful ‘México Canta’ finale 

The finalists of the “México Canta” singing contention attended the mañanera and performed parts of the songs they volition sing astatine the expansive finale connected Sunday night.

As Mexico News Daily reported connected Thursday, “México Canta” is simply a singing contention akin to “American Idol” with 1 overriding rule: Songs that glorify the lives of cartels, unit oregon cause trafficking are not allowed.

Culture Minister Claudia Curiel de Icaza reminded reporters that “México Canta” is an “unprecedented binational contest” that “unites young Mexicans and Mexican-Americans done euphony and our traditions.”

She thanked each the contestants arsenic good arsenic established artists that supported the competition.

“It’s a contention that is organized by the Mexican authorities done the Culture Ministry successful collaboration with the Mexican Music Council,” Curiel de Icaza said.

“It has been an integral portion of the strategy of attending to the causes [of crime] successful bid to get bid and against addictions,” she said.

“The extremity has ever been to beforehand caller philharmonic narratives that alteration lyrics to explicit values and different imaginable worlds without resorting to glorifying violence,” Curiel de Icaza said.

The “México Canta” expansive finale connected Sunday volition aerial from 7 to 9 p.m. Mexico City clip connected Canal Once, Canal 22 and Canal 14; the archetypal 2 are connected assorted platforms and cablegram systems successful the United States.

Additionally, the amusement is expected to beryllium streamed unrecorded connected YouTube channels, specified arsenic the authoritative Gobierno de México and Secretaría de Cultura accounts.

Curiel de Icaza said that 2 prizes volition beryllium awarded via the fashionable ballot of viewers: 1 for champion creation and different for champion performance.

Specialist judges volition grant a 3rd prize to different finalist, the civilization curate said. All 3 winners volition beryllium awarded grounds deals.