Sheinbaum cuts ties with former Pemex chief accused of domestic violence: Monday’s mañanera recapped

Sheinbaum’s mañanera in 60 seconds

• 🗞️ NYT Morena informants report: Sheinbaum pushed back on a New York Times article claiming at least a dozen Morena officials — including governors and legislators — have quietly offered themselves as informants to U.S. authorities. She criticized the paper’s reliance on anonymous sources and said the Mexican government has no information confirming that any Morena member is cooperating with the U.S. to provide information against colleagues.
• 🚨 Ex-Pemex CEO domestic violence: Sheinbaum responded to a video showing former Pemex CEO Víctor Rodríguez physically assaulting his wife, María Felicia Jiménez, who has requested government protection for herself and her children. The president said the Women’s Ministry has been in contact with Jiménez, that the case falls under Morelos state jurisdiction and that Rodríguez will never hold another position in her government. “We’re not going to protect anyone in the face of acts such as these,” the president said.
• 🇮🇷 Iran’s World Cup welcome in Tijuana: Sheinbaum described the outpouring of affection Tijuana residents showed the Iranian national team — including mariachi serenades — as “completely organic” and unrelated to politics or diplomacy. She attributed the warmth to Mexico’s deep cultural values rooted in Indigenous traditions of community over individualism.

Why today’s mañanera matters

At her Monday morning press conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to a New York Times report that states that Morena party politicians are aiding U.S. criminal investigations into their colleagues. That development, the Times asserts, “is a deeply worrying sign for Mexico’s dominant political party and its leader, Ms. Sheinbaum.”

Sheinbaum also responded to a distressing video in which the recently departed former CEO of Pemex is shown assaulting his wife.

The president’s responses were significant as they reinforced her distrust of The New York Times, which she has previously criticized, and other major international and local media outlets, and her determination to protect women from violence and stand up for their rights.

Also of note at today’s mañanera were Sheinbaum’s remarks about the Iranian World Cup team’s experience in Tijuana, which hosted the players and support staff in recent weeks despite the team playing its three matches in the United States.

Sheinbaum responds to NYT report about Morena officials collaborating with US authorities 

In light of The New York Times’ publication on Saturday of an article headlined “Mexican Officials Have Become Informants for the Trump Administration,” a reporter asked the president whether the Mexican government had information about governors or other Mexican officials providing information to the U.S. government.

The New York Times’ article states that “[a]s the Trump administration ramps up its investigations into Mexico’s government, elected officials in the country’s governing party [i.e., Morena] have been quietly offering themselves to U.S. authorities as informants against fellow party members, according to eight people involved in the conversations.”

“… At least a dozen elected officials in Mexico — including governors and members of Congress, many from the governing party — have reached out to discuss sharing information about fellow politicians, multiple people said, and several have already begun talks with the United States,” the Times wrote.

“Many of the officials are seeking to get ahead of investigations that they fear could soon focus on them, the people said.”

The publication of the article came around two months after the unsealing of an indictment accusing Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya and nine other current and former Sinaloa-based officials of drug trafficking in league with the Sinaloa Cartel. In early June, The Los Angeles Times published a report that states that the United States is also investigating Sonora Governor Alfonso Durazo and Tamaulipas Governor Américo Villarreal Anaya for alleged criminal offenses.

On Monday morning, Sheinbaum urged the aforesaid reporter to “look at the article” published by The New York Times over the weekend.

She noted that the Times is known as “one of the best newspapers in the world,” but railed against its use of anonymous sources in the article in question.

“A source told me — who knows who — that there are people from Morena who are informing the United States. This is the article,” Sheinbaum said.

“‘They told me that there are people informing.’ Governor Durazo sent a letter saying it wasn’t true. We don’t have any information [about Morena officials providing information to U.S. authorities] and the truth is … [The New York Times] should provide greater context,” she said before once again criticizing the newspaper’s reliance on anonymous sources.

“We don’t know if it’s true because we don’t have any information of anyone [in Morena] cooperating with the U.S. government … to provide information,” Sheinbaum added.

‘The law has to be applied’; Sheinbaum responds to domestic violence case involving ex-CEO of Pemex 

A reporter asked Sheinbaum about the publication of a video by the wife of former Pemex CEO Víctor Rodríguez in which Rodríguez is seen physically assaulting his wife. In light of the attack she suffered, María Felicia Jiménez requested that the Sheinbaum administration “take the necessary measures” to protect her and her children.

Sheinbaum said she hadn’t personally spoken to Jiménez, but noted that officials from the Women’s Ministry had been in contact with her.

She advocated the application of the law in the case involving Rodríguez, who resigned as Pemex CEO in May.

“We’re not going to protect anyone in the face of acts such as these,” said Sheinbaum, who collaborated with Rodríguez on academic projects many years ago.

She said that it was up to the Morelos Attorney General’s Office to prosecute the case as the violence occurred in that state.

“It’s a state crime and the law has to be applied because there can’t be violence against women,” Sheinbaum said.

She also said that Rodríguez will never hold another position in her government.

Sheinbaum: What the Iranian team experienced in Tijuana was ‘completely organic’

A reporter noted that the coach of the Iranian World Cup team — which was eliminated from the tournament after three consecutive ties in group stage matches — thanked the people of Mexico for the “love” they were shown while staying in Tijuana.

Sheinbaum said that the love and support toward the Iranian team was an “expression of the people.”

“… What the Iranian team experienced was completely organic. … The people of Tijuana came out to welcome them, to take mariachis to them, to welcome them when they came back [from the United States],” she said.

“It has nothing to do with politics or even the relationship between governments. Rather it’s support for humanity, affection, which is what is seen in Mexico,” Sheinbaum said.

“That’s why we say that the values of the people of Mexico are very special … and unique. And a lot of this, I repeat, comes from the culture of the Indigenous peoples. … [It’s a manifestation of] the value of community over the value of the individual,” she said.

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