Sheinbaum’s mañanera in 60 seconds

• 📵 Cell phones and tablets to be banned in primary and secondary schools: Education Minister Mario Delgado said federal and state education authorities agreed Friday to ban the devices at both levels. High schools will set their own limits. Once Sheinbaum approves and promulgates the agreement, it will take effect after 30 days.
• 🔍 Sheinbaum, Chihuahua governor talk security: Sheinbaum said she met Gov. Maru Campos in Ciudad Juárez on Saturday and reminded her that the FGR is investigating the alleged CIA participation in a Chihuahua drug lab raid five months ago.
• 🇺🇸 Sheinbaum blames US interference for Sinaloa violence: Sheinbaum said that Sinaloa — a state plagued by violence — is “proof that interference … caused the situation we have [in the state] today.” Like her predecessor AMLO, Sheinbaum believes that the U.S. was involved in the kidnapping of “El Mayo” Zambada, an event that led to an escalation in Sinaloa Cartel infighting.

Why today’s mañanera matters

At President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Monday morning press conference, Education Minister Mario Delgado announced that federal and state education authorities had reached an agreement to ban the use of cell phones and tablets in primary and secondary schools.

His announcement came three weeks after he reported that 81% of more than half a million surveyed teachers were in favor of there being “guidelines and rules to guarantee the safe use [of devices] for educational purposes.”

Cell phone use in classrooms is already banned in half of Mexico’s 32 federal entities. Now, a national ban is set to be enforced.

Also of note at today’s mañanera were Sheinbaum’s remarks about her meeting on Saturday with Chihuahua Governor Maru Campos. Their meeting came five months after U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) personnel allegedly participated in a drug lab raid in Chihuahua. Two CIA agents and two Chihuahua state police officials were killed in a car accident on the day the raid took place.

Sheinbaum says that the CIA personnel participated in the operation alongside state forces without the knowledge or authorization of her government, violating Mexico’s Constitution and National Security Law. Campos has claimed that she didn’t authorize or have knowledge of the presence of the CIA personnel in the drug lab raid.

Sheinbaum has characterized the CIA’s alleged involvement in the operation as an example of U.S. interference in Mexican affairs, a topic she also spoke about on Monday morning.

Cell phones and tablets to be banned in primary and secondary schools across Mexico  

Delgado told reporters that Sheinbaum had “initiated an essential debate for our country — a debate about the impact of screens and social media on this generation of boys and girls, adolescents and young people.”

He subsequently noted that federal and state education authorities reached an agreement last Friday “to regulate cell phones and tablets in schools.”

“The proposal is to not allow them for primary and secondary schools, to restrict their use in these education levels,” Delgado said.

At the high school level, the education minister said it will be up to “each institution” to determine “limitations” that ensure the “responsible and safe use” of devices for “educational purposes.”

Delgado noted that the agreement reached on Friday is subject to approval by Sheinbaum. He said that once the agreement is approved — which is certain to happen — and promulgated, it will take effect after 30 days.

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“It will be at the end of October that this regulation will enter into force,” Delgado said.

“This agreement is a fundamental step forward in order to guarantee the rights of children, adolescents and young people, taking care of their mental health, their learning and their comprehensive development while strengthening their attention span, human contact and community,” he said.

Sheinbaum reminds Campos of the FGR’s ‘CIA in Chihuahua’ probe 

Sheinbaum told reporters that she and Gov. Campos spoke about security coordination between federal and Chihuahua authorities at their meeting in Ciudad Juárez on Saturday.

“It’s essential that [coordination] occurs,” she said.

Regarding “the presence of individuals from a U.S. agency,” Sheinbaum said she reminded Campos that the Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) is carrying out an investigation.

“That corresponds to the Attorney General’s Office. It’s not within our purview as the government of Mexico,” she said, noting that Campos acknowledged that the FGR is conducting a probe into the CIA’s alleged participation in the drug lab raid in Chihuahua.

Campos said in a video message on Saturday that she and Sheinbaum spoke “very frankly and firmly” to each other.

Hoy me reuní en privado con la presidenta de la República, Claudia Sheinbaum. Un encuentro que era necesario para ambos gobiernos, ante las diferencias de lo que estamos haciendo en materia de seguridad.

Tuvimos un encuentro franco y con firmeza, en donde ambas reconocimos la… pic.twitter.com/obtO7o33yG

— Maru Campos (@MaruCampos_G) September 19, 2026

“We both acknowledged that we must improve our channels of communication without renouncing our convictions and the positions we defend,” she said.

“I confirmed to her that my government will continue respecting the law while combating organized crime with complete force and all the capacities [we have],” Campos said.

Sheinbaum blames violence in Sinaloa on US interference 

Sheinbaum told reporters that the northern state of Sinaloa was registering “less than one homicide per day” before the July 2024 arrest in the United States of Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who was kidnapped by Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of convicted drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, and forced onto a private plane that flew him and Guzmán López to New Mexico.

The kidnapping of El Mayo and his subsequent arrest in the United States led to an escalation of a long-running conflict between two rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, Los Chapitos and Los Mayos. Thousands of homicides and abductions have been attributed to the factional fighting.

Sheinbaum, like her predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, believes that the U.S. government was involved in the events that led to Zambada’s arrest in New Mexico on July 25, 2024. Consequently, she believes that the U.S. government is at least partially to blame for the ongoing violence in Sinaloa.

On Monday morning, the president said that “in Mexico and the whole world, it is proven that interference and intervention don’t strengthen national institutions.”

“… On the contrary, they weaken them,” she said.

Sheinbaum went on to say that “Sinaloa is proof that [U.S.] interference, with the rupture of a criminal group, caused the situation we have [in the state] today.”