Sheinbaum on Trump Tariffs: A Tough Challenge

Jalisco, Mexico — President Claudia Sheinbaum admitted, nearly a year after taking office, that confronting the tariff policy of the United States, driven by President Donald Trump, has been a "difficult process." However, while leading a rally in Jalisco as part of her accountability tour for the First Government Report, she asserted that her administration has managed to face the Trump government "dignifiedly" because, she emphasized, "Mexico is respected."

"Marcelo Ebrard, Secretary of Economy, has accompanied us throughout this difficult process. You already know we have had our difficulties with the United States… because the rules changed, now tariffs were imposed, but the truth is that, as a team, we have moved forward very dignifiedly, because Mexico is respected," she stated.

Sheinbaum, who will complete one year as Mexico's first female president on October 1, has held nine phone calls during her administration with her U.S. counterpart, who has threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on products from Mexico for not doing "enough" to address the emergency the United States faces due to fentanyl consumption and migrant entries.

Sheinbaum Highlights Construction of AMLO's Public Works

On another topic, the president highlighted yesterday, amid the revelation of the corruption case related to the "huachicol fiscal" (tax fuel theft), that during the six-year government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, public works such as the Tren Maya were built, thanks to governing with integrity and honesty.

"It recovered the government, the Mexican State, the capacity to carry out public works. Most works were concessioned to the private sector, which is not necessarily wrong; the problem was that was the only way. There was no real public investment. Now, look, in six years: the Tren Maya, the Interoceanic Corridor, the Refinery, airports, and highways. And how is it possible to make all that happen? By governing with integrity," she boasted.

However, Sheinbaum's own government opened the largest case of macro-criminality in Mexico, known as the "huachicol fiscal," led by Vice Admiral Roberto Farías Laguna and his brother, Rear Admiral Fernando, both nephews-in-law of Admiral Rafael Ojeda, Secretary of the Navy under López Obrador.

In her 29th state report, Sheinbaum faced not only protests, including from a searcher for the disappeared, but also boos directed at the Governor of Jalisco, Pablo Lemus, who did not make use of the floor to speak.

"I'll attend to you now, colleague, I'll gladly attend to you after the event, and also… to the agave farmers… There has been a lot of coordination (with Governor Lemus) and I thank him for it. Well, we agreed that if there were going to be these demonstrations, we should just end the rally. Nothing of the sort. We must all respect each other," she requested amid shouts of "Fuera Lemus!" (Lemus Out!).