Teachers’ union blocks press from National Palace: Wednesday’s mañanera recapped

President Claudia Sheinbaum noted astatine the precise opening of her Wednesday greeting property league that her mañanera would beryllium “different” arsenic reporters (and authorities officials) were incapable to get into the National Palace owed to a teachers’ protest.

Members of the CNTE teachers’ national blocked the entrances to the spot of enforcement powerfulness successful the historical halfway of Mexico City arsenic portion of their efforts to unit the authorities to accede to a scope of labour demands, including a overmuch larger wage emergence than the 10% hike announced by Sheinbaum past week.

The president, accompanied lone by a subject general, said successful the mostly bare Treasury Hall of the National Palace that reporters would link “by Zoom” to enactment successful her Wednesday greeting property conference.

Mexico hoping for much preferential commercialized attraction from US ‘very soon’

A newsman noted that Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Tuesday that vehicles assembled successful Mexico volition look an mean tariff of 15% erstwhile exported to the United States, importantly little than the 25% work the U.S. applies to astir different overseas cars.

She asked the president whether immoderate advancement had been made successful the negotiations with the United States implicit the 25% tariffs the Trump medication imposed connected alloy and aluminum imports from Mexico and each different countries astir the world.

Sheinbaum archetypal noted that Mexican car parts are not taxable to U.S. tariffs (provided they comply with USMCA rules) and highlighted that the work connected vehicles assembled successful Mexico is “significantly” reduced due to the fact that they incorporate “a batch of car parts that travel from the United States.”

The president answered a question astir whether commercialized discussions with the United States had reached a woody connected alloy and aluminum tariffs. (Presidencia/Cuartoscuro)

With respect to “the lawsuit of alloy and aluminum,” she said her authorities hopes to “reach an statement precise soon that puts Mexico successful a preferential concern compared to the remainder of the world.”

Ebrard has traveled regularly to Washington D.C. successful caller months to sermon commercialized with U.S. officials, including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.

‘We’re moving with Clara to get justice’ 

Sheinbaum said she had the accidental connected Tuesday to talk successful idiosyncratic with Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada, whose idiosyncratic caput and advisor were murdered connected Tuesday morning.

“She was present for a portion successful the afternoon,” she said.

“Above all, [we’re providing] solidarity and enactment to Clara,” Sheinbaum said, noting that the 2 victims were “very close” to the mayor.

She said that the families of the victims should cognize that “we’re moving with Clara to get justice.”

Earlier successful her property conference, Sheinbaum said that the national authorities is supporting the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office successful its probe into the treble homicide.

The Attorney General of Mexico City Bertha Alcalde Luján and Mexico City Security Minister Pablo Vazquez Camacho announced connected Wednesday that authorities are presently seeking 4 radical successful transportation with the treble homicide of the mayor’s aides. (Victoria Valtierra/Cuartoscuro)

Mexico City Security Minister Pablo Vázquez said Wednesday that authorities are seeking to apprehension 4 radical — the shooter, who was captured by information cameras committing the crime, and 3 others who allegedly “supported successful the logistics and the driving of [getaway] vehicles.”

‘There volition beryllium dialogue’ with teachers 

A newsman asked the president however the authorities volition explicate to teachers that “resources are finite” and truthful it is not imaginable to springiness them a 100% wage rise, arsenic the CNTE national is demanding.

“There volition beryllium dialogue,” Sheinbaum responded.

She subsequently asserted that lone “some teachers from immoderate states” are protesting, whereas “the immense bulk of Mexico’s teachers” are successful classrooms teaching.

“There are teachers from immoderate states that are creating this situation,” Sheinbaum said.

“And the lone mode to resoluteness everything is with dialogue. So the doorway is unfastened to dialogue, the doorway volition ever beryllium unfastened to dialogue,” she said.

Another newsman said that helium and different journalists were “victims of attacks” by teachers connected Wednesday greeting erstwhile they were attempting to get into the National Palace for the president’s mañanera.

Sheinbaum responded that her authorities volition “always condemn immoderate onslaught connected the media and connected journalists” portion defending people’s close to protestation peacefully.

“… We don’t hold with aggression against anyone,” she said.