Will the new bilateral security agreement permit US military intervention? Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

The presumption of a caller authorities program for state-owned lipid institution Pemex took up a important information of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Tuesday greeting property conference.

Sheinbaum declined to respond to immoderate questions astir issues not related to Pemex, but did talk astir a caller Mexico-United States information statement that is expected to beryllium signed soon.

Mexico-US information statement is ready, says Sheinbaum 

Sheinbaum said that a caller information statement betwixt Mexico and the United States is “ready,” but won’t beryllium signed this week.

She said that she would contiguous the caller statement astatine a aboriginal property league successful bid to beryllium “very transparent.”

In precocious 2021, during the governments of Andrés Manuel López Obrador successful Mexico and Joe Biden successful the United States, the 2 countries entered into the Bicentennial Framework for Security, Public Health and Safe Communities, which superseded the Mérida Initiative.

Last Thursday, Sheinbaum said that she believed that the caller bilateral information statement would beryllium signed this week.

However, she claimed connected Tuesday that her remarks were misunderstood and that she didn’t accidental that astatine all.

The president said that she would contiguous the caller bilateral information statement astatine a aboriginal property league successful bid to beryllium “very transparent.” (Graciela López/Cuartoscuro)

“… The wording [of the agreement] is practically finished, [but] it inactive hasn’t been decided erstwhile it volition beryllium signed,” Sheinbaum said.

She said that the statement is governed by 4 cardinal principles.

• Respect for sovereignty.
• Respect for each other’s territory.
• Mutual trust.
• Collaboration and practice betwixt Mexico and the United States “within that framework.”

The Trump medication has been pressuring Mexico — including done the menace of tariffs — to bash much to combat cause cartels successful Mexico and halt the trafficking of narcotics to the United States, particularly fentanyl.

A convulsive commencement to the week 

A newsman asked the president whether caller acts of unit specified arsenic the execution of a authoritative successful Tamaulipas and the execution of a national person successful Quintana Roo arsenic good arsenic the find of dismembered bodies successful Veracruz and the find of 32 bodies successful a clandestine sedate successful Irapuato, Guanajuato, could beryllium “used” by the United States successful negotiations implicit the information agreement.

Federal authoritative fatally attacked successful Reynosa

“There is an statement of collaboration and cooperation,” Sheinbaum said, seemingly reiterating that the pact has already been drawn up.

“… We’re a sovereign country, we marque decisions arsenic a sovereign country,” she added.

“And with the United States, we collaborate and cooperate and that collaboration and practice is precise important, but with [respect for each other’s] sovereignty,” Sheinbaum said.

Pushed arsenic to whether acts of unit successful Mexico could “raise the terms of the negotiation” with the United States, “so to speak,” the president efficaciously brushed disconnected the question, lone responding, “Why?”

A US subject involution successful Mexico is ‘not connected the table,’ says Sheinbaum

After Sheinbaum’s aforesaid response, a antithetic newsman abruptly asked the president astir the anticipation of a U.S. subject involution against transgression groups successful Mexico.

Sheinbaum reminded the property corps that she had antecedently rejected an connection from U.S. President Donald Trump to nonstop the United States service into Mexico.

“They tin importune again, but that contented is not connected the table,” she said.

“… There are different ways of collaborating and coordinating with each other. There is accusation they tin supply us, accusation we tin supply them successful a strategy of collaboration without subordination and respecting our sovereignty,” Sheinbaum said.

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