Sheinbaum addresses ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ and motorcycle safety concerns: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

President Claudia Sheinbaum has present completed 9 months successful Mexico’s apical job, having been sworn successful arsenic the country’s archetypal pistillate person connected Oct. 1.

Following successful the steps of her predecessor and governmental mentor Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Sheinbaum holds weekday greeting property conferences (mañaneras) astatine the National Palace successful Mexico City.

At the president’s 21 mañaneras in June, journalists and media outlets that person declared themselves to beryllium successful favour of the national authorities were fixed the accidental to inquire 39% of the questions, according to the fact-checking portion of the quality work Animal Político.

Here is simply a recap of immoderate of the issues Sheinbaum spoke astir astatine her archetypal mañanera successful July.

Sheinbaum defends determination to cancel Peña Nieto’s airdrome project 

A newsman noted that erstwhile president Enrique Peña Nieto “reappeared” successful a documentary astir the cancelation of the Mexico City airdrome task successful Texcoco, México state.

Construction of what was called the caller Mexico City International Airport (NAICM) began during Peña Nieto’s 2012-18 presidency, but ex-president Andrés Manuel López Obrador canceled the partially built task aft a arguable nationalist consultation held successful October 2018, earlier AMLO had taken office.

The authorities of Enrique Peña Nieto spent betwixt US $2 and 5 cardinal connected the Texcoco airdrome earlier it was canceled. (Presidencia/Cuartoscuro)

About 70% of conscionable implicit 1 cardinal citizens who voted successful the consultation favored the conversion of a México authorities aerial unit basal arsenic a commercialized airdrome implicit the completion of the NAICM.

The medication of López Obrador — who argued against the Texcoco task connected the ground that it was corrupt, excessively costly and being built connected onshore that was sinking — consequently went up with the operation of a caller airdrome connected the Santa Lucía Air Force Base. The army-built Felipe Ángeles International Airport opened connected the tract successful March 2022.

On Tuesday morning, the aforesaid newsman asked the president however she interpreted the “reappearance” of Peña Nieto, who asserted successful the documentary that claims of corruption related to the operation of the airdrome person not been confirmed oregon proven.

“It’s excessively aboriginal to cognize wherefore helium appears successful this … documentary,” Sheinbaum said.

“The important happening astir the airport, careless of whether determination was mismanagement [of resources]; … the essence is that they were going to physique an airdrome connected a tract with subsidence, a tract that is simply a regulating reservoir for h2o that leaves the Valley of Mexico metropolitan country successful the rainy season,” she said.

Sheinbaum asserted that flooding that has precocious occurred successful Mexico City “would person been worse” if determination was an airdrome successful Texcoco “because determination is nary transmission for the antithetic rivers that travel into this area.”

The tract wherever the NAICM was being built is present the Lake Texcoco Ecological Park, a monolithic parcel of onshore that includes a UNESCO-designated Ecohydrology Demonstration Site.

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Sheinbaum said that different crushed for canceling the NAICM was due to the fact that “they wanted to crook the existent Mexico City airdrome into a existent property development.”

“That was wherever the large concern was,” she said, insinuating that corrupt dealings would person taken spot if the Mexico City airdrome had been closed and redeveloped.

“They wanted to crook 700 hectares [of land] into a caller Santa Fe,” Sheinbaum said, referring to the concern territory connected Mexico City’s westside.

“… So those were the reasons it was decided — that the radical of Mexico decided due to the fact that determination was a consultation — to physique the airdrome astatine Santa Lucía,” Sheinbaum said.

Sheinbaum asked astir ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ 

A newsman asked the president her sentiment connected the United States government’s plans to fastener up immigrants astatine a detention halfway successful the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

On Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump toured the facility, wherever helium declared it would soon location the astir “menacing migrants, immoderate of the astir vicious radical connected the planet.”

“Alligators, crocodiles and pythons successful the surrounding wetlands are expected to support detainees from escaping the centre, which is being built connected an aged airfield,” the BBC reported.

Sheinbaum didn’t marque immoderate nonstop remark astir “Alligator Alcatraz,” but said that her authorities doesn’t hold with “treating migrants arsenic criminals.”

📍 ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ — The Florida Everglades pic.twitter.com/FoUtuQQLPx

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“… The United States was built by migrants, it’s a state built by migrants from galore places astir the world. … In particular, the Latino and Mexican migrants are precise important for the United States economy, that’s what we’ve been saying,” she said.

Sheinbaum advocated respect for immigrants’ quality rights, and reiterated that her authorities volition support each Mexicans successful the United States, whether they’ve been determination for “a month, 2 months, 3 months, a year, 2 years, 10 years oregon 20 years.”

Sheinbaum: The summation successful the usage of motorbikes ‘has caused galore problems’ 

A newsman noted that exigency country visits owed to motorcycle accidents are connected the rise, and mentioned that ridesharing companies specified arsenic Uber and Didi present connection trips by motorbike.

Sheinbaum said that the increasing prevalence of motorbikes connected Mexican roads “has caused galore problems.”

“Here [in Mexico City] the doctors are saying it due to the fact that trauma attraction owed to the usage of motorbikes has so accrued a lot,” she said.

“We’re moving connected a [safety] run … but we privation it to beryllium much than a campaign,” Sheinbaum said.

“Normally, the regulations related to the usage of motorcycles are authorities regulations,” she added.

“So we person to enactment with the states and spot if nationalist regulations tin beryllium made. It’s not astir banning motorbikes, but rather, what are the regulations for utilizing a motorcycle. And second, what fines volition determination beryllium if it not utilized successful the [correct] way,” Sheinbaum said.

“And the different happening is education. If you person a motorbike, [you person to know] however to usage it,” she said.

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