"All the gas we import comes from a type of extraction that has environmental impacts and is 100 meters from the Mexican border," she noted, alluding to fracking projects in Texas.
Mexico's defense of Cuba hasn't been limited to President Sheinbaum's daily press conferences. Prominent Morena figures from parliamentary spokespeople to party president Luisa Alcalde have publicly aligned themselves with Havana. Within Morena, a broad and sometimes divided political family, the party's more orthodox or nostalgic left wing has embraced the Cuban crisis as an ideological cause and is pushing for even closer ties with Havana.
Sheinbaum is making her first trip to the US as president at a time when her government is still negotiating with Trump over tariffs he imposed on Mexican goods. Sheinbaum has won delays to some levies in past negotiations with Trump. The trio of nations are also set to review the US-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement next year. Sheinbaum said Mexico maintained one of the best commercial positions globally amid Trump's tariff push.
The demonstration on Saturday was organised by members of generation Z, but ended with strong backing from older supporters of opposition parties. For many hours, this mobilisation proceeded and developed peacefully, until a group of hooded individuals began to commit acts of violence, said Pablo Vazquez, the security chief for Mexico City. He reported that 100 police officers were injured, of whom 40 required hospital treatment for bruises and cuts, while 20 protesters were hurt.
Machismo in Mexico is so fucked up not even the president is safe, said Caterina Camastra, a professor and feminist, when I talked to her in Morelia, a city west of the Mexican capital this week. Succinct and to the point, it is a sentiment shared by many women in Mexico after watching the now viral video of a drunk man groping the country's first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, as she walked from the National Palace to the education ministry on Monday.
A teenage girl dances to reggaeton, wearing a presidential sash and a high ponytail. It's Claudia Sheinbaum or at least her TikTok version. In the video, the voice of Mexico's president can be heard stating one of her campaign promises: We're going to build more high schools close to people's homes. What began as a joke among friends quickly turned into a phenomenon, spreading across thousands of screens and sparking imitations, memes, songs, and costumes.
President Claudia Sheinbaum has made history as the first woman to lead Mexico's Independence Day celebrations in 215 years, delivering a resolute message against foreign intervention amid ongoing diplomatic pressure from the United States. From the National Palace balcony in Mexico City, Sheinbaum presided over the traditional grito ceremony on Monday night, ringing the bell that symbolises the call to arms during Mexico's 1810-21 independence struggle against Spain.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's six-year roadmap, Plan Mexico, aims to attract $277 billion in investment and create over 1.5 million jobs annually amid economic challenges.
Sheinbaum condemned the xenophobic displays at the protest, stating, 'No to discrimination, no to racism, no to classism, no to xenophobia, no to machismo.' She emphasized, 'All human beings are equal, and we cannot treat anyone as less.'
