President Claudia Sheinbaum missed her press conference on Wednesday morning as she went to Honduras to attend the summit of the Latin American and Caribbean (Ceuc) community in Tegugigigalpa.
But Thursday morning, she was back in Mexico Mañanera At the National Palace, where she spoke of plans to extend two railways to Central America, among others.
Here is a summary of the president’s morning press conference on April 10.
All on board Guatemala and Belize!
Sheinbaum noted that she had spoken to Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo during His visit to Honduras on Wednesday for the summit of Cecac.
She said they had discussed: “The project to take the Maya train and the Interoceanic train in Guatemala.
She said that the railroad of the interoceanic train – of which main line Cross the isthm of Tehuantepec between Salina Cruz, Oaxaca and Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz – will enter Guatemala in Ciudad Hidalgo, located on the southern border of Mexico in the state of chiapas.
“Guatemala must do its projects (to extend the railway to the country of Central America) and they work there. … It is mainly a freight train, although it also takes passengers,” said Sheinbaum.
It gave no calendar when the railroad could extend to Guatemala.
Sheinbaum told journalists that Guatemala did not want the Maya Train Railroad to enter the country of the North Department of Petén, where the Tikal archaeological site is located because there is a protected forest there. (Tikal is also the site of an archaeological discovery linked to New Mexico.)
“Thus, in the case of the Mayan train, the option is to enter through Belize, then descend to Guatemala,” she said, adding that the proposal has already been discussed with the Prime Minister of Belize.
Sheinbaum did not mention when the railway of the Mayan train of several billion dollars could be extended to the territory of the two neighbors in southern Mexico.
Does Mexico prepare a “mega expulsion” of the cartel characters?
A journalist noted that the British journalist based in Mexico Ioan Grillo said Mexico plans to send 40 cartel figures to the United States.
“The Mexican federal government plans to carry out another mass” expulsion “of senior cartel personalities, Mexican prisons on guard in the United States, with a list of 40 potential targets, including the” El Cuini “of the Jalisco cartel, according to planning, Abigael González Valencia, according to a familiar Mexican source with planning”, ” Grillo wrote in an article Posted on Wednesday on its site as a substantive clashout.
Sheinbaum refused to confirm or deny the report.
“The Security Council (of the Federal Government) must report on this subject.
Mexico sent 29 cartel figures Including the notorious Lord of drugs Rafael Caro Quintero in the United States at the end of February. The day after the extractions, Security Minister Omar García Harfuch said There was a risk that some of the 29 accused sent to the United States could have been released from prison if they stay in Mexico.
‘Now we can talk’
A journalist noted that the The Federal Electoral Court ruled on Wednesday that the president and other government officials and institutions can promote participation in the next court elections – not to mention in favor or against individual candidates.
The National Electoral Institute had forbidden Federal, state and municipal governments, public institutions and individual officials of the promotion of the first judicial elections in Mexico.
“Now we can talk,” said Sheinbaum.
“On June 1, you must vote for judges, magistrates and judges of the Supreme Court,” she said.
The judicial elections will be held on the first Sunday in June thanks to A controversial legal reform approved by the congress last September. The official campaign period for candidates for judgments began on March 30.
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