Violent crime is down but fear is up: Wednesday’s mañanera recapped

Citizens’ perceptions of insecurity and the United States’ allegations that Mexico is not afloat complying with the USMCA escaped commercialized pact were among the issues President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir astatine her Wednesday greeting property conference.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s Oct. 8 mañanera.

Sheinbaum holds up a halt timepiece that she uses to support way of the clip during her greeting property conferences. (Daniel Augusto/Cuartoscuro)

Homicides are down, but nationalist fearfulness of insecurity is up. Why?

A newsman noted that homicides person declined during Sheinbaum’s presidency, but the percent of radical who consciousness unsafe successful the metropolis successful which they unrecorded has risen.

According to the results of the nationalist statistic bureau INEGI’s National Survey of Urban Public Security (ENSU) successful the 3rd 4th of 2024, 58.6% of respondents believed the metropolis successful which they unrecorded was unsafe. In the 2nd 4th of 2025, the percent was up much than 4 points to 63.2%, the highest level successful 3 years.

Sheinbaum said that perceptions of insecurity “have to bash with galore aspects, galore issues” beyond homicide numbers, which declined astir 25% annually successful the archetypal 9 months of 2025. The ENSU considers things similar whether radical consciousness unsafe astatine the bank, connected the streets they regularly usage and connected the highway, places wherever robberies are commonly committed.

Sheinbaum acknowledged that portion homicides person declined, reported cases of extortion person increased.

For that reason, the national authorities launched a caller nationalist strategy against extortion, Sheinbaum said.

She said that “telephone extortion” is simply a peculiar occupation successful immoderate parts of the country.

Authorities motorboat nationalist strategy against extortion to tackle a pernicious and wide crime

Attempts astatine extortion implicit the telephone “don’t necessarily” effect successful “fraud” oregon radical paying wealth to extortioners, but bash make fearfulness among the population, Sheinbaum said.

She said that different origin that causes people’s cognition of insecurity to summation is that “a batch of media outlets” exaggerate “issues of violence,” which generates “an environment” successful which radical deliberation “there is simply a batch of insecurity successful the country.”

Therefore, the summation successful the fig of radical who see their metropolis unsafe “also has to bash with the benignant of communication” employed by “traditional media outlets,” and by “some [television] channels successful particular,” Sheinbaum said.

“… Now we [also] person societal media and the fake quality that is created connected societal media. So evidently we person to pass from here,” she said, referring to her mañanera lectern.

Sheinbaum: The caller judiciary volition assistance the quest for peace

Sheinbaum said that her authorities volition proceed to enactment “every day” to amended nationalist information successful Mexico.

“Regardless of the [anti-government] campaigns, careless of what appears connected societal media, we’ll enactment and perceive to the radical to proceed providing bid and security,” she said.

“And I’m definite that the caller judiciary volition assistance america a lot,” Sheinbaum said.

The recently reformed Supreme Court offers further protections for the existent government, portion limiting opportunities for absorption candidates to triumph seats. (Supreme Court)

Mexico held its first-ever judicial elections successful June, and the palmy candidates assumed their positions connected Sept. 1.

Sheinbaum argued that the elections were needed to renew the judiciary and frankincense escaped it of corruption and different ills.

Mexico’s USMCA compliance ‘problems’

A week aft United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer accused Mexico of failing to comply with the USMCA escaped commercialized pact, Sheinbaum said determination are “about 50 points raised by the United States regarding what they see to beryllium ‘Mexico’s problems’ with the commercialized agreement.”

She said that her authorities is “clarifying” the concern regarding the alleged compliance problems due to the fact that world doesn’t “necessarily” lucifer “the presumption they have.”

“I’ll springiness you an example,” Sheinbaum continued.

“In the lawsuit of labor, they accidental that determination aren’t capable resources for [Mexico’s] labour courts. They were lone counting the fund that the national authorities provides, but each authorities of the republic provides a fund to its ain courts. If you enactment it each together, it’s much than 4 cardinal pesos [US $218.2 million],” she said.

“So issues similar those are simply clarified and resolved,” Sheinbaum said.

She said that her authorities doesn’t hold with immoderate of the United States’ different USMCA complaints, but is reviewing them nonetheless.

“At slightest from our constituent of view, the bulk person already been resolved,” Sheinbaum said.

She noted that the “formal review” of the USMCA — scheduled for 2026 — hasn’t commenced, but acknowledged that Mexico and the United States person started nationalist consultation processes.

Sheinbaum besides noted that the United States has imposed tariffs connected immoderate imports from Mexico, specified arsenic vehicles and steel, but stressed that “the majority” of the USMCA is being respected by the U.S. government.

She expressed assurance that the result of the USMCA reappraisal volition beryllium affirmative for Mexico, adjacent though U.S. President Donald Trump has indicated that helium wants to renegotiate the pact that superseded NAFTA successful 2020.

“We judge that we’ll bash well. We’re optimistic,” Sheinbaum said.