Just hours after it became clear that Donald Trump had won the presidential election in the United States, President Claudia Sheinbaum held her Wednesday morning press conference at the National Palace in the historic center of Mexico.
Here is a summary of her remarks about Trump’s victory, energy sector reform and other issues, during her latest mañanera.
‘No reason for concern’ about a second Trump presidency
“To all Mexicans, there is no reason for concern. To our compatriots [in the U.S.], to their relatives here, to Mexican business people: there is no cause for concern,” she said despite Trump’s tariff threats and pledge to carry out a mass deportation operation.
* Click here to read MND’s full story on Sheinbaum’s response to Trump’s triumph.
‘The constitution prevailed’
Sheinbaum noted that four of 11 Supreme Court justices voted against a proposal to partially invalidate the recently enacted judicial reform, ensuring that large-scale judicial elections can go ahead next year as planned.
“Who voted against [the proposal]? Justice Yasmín Esquivel, Justice Loretta Ortiz, Justice Lenia Batres and also Justice Alberto Pérez Dayán,” she said.
“I invite you to listen to the intervention of Justice Pérez Dayán. … What he said is, ‘I don’t agree with the reform, but that doesn’t mean that my personal opinion implies that a project of unconstitutionality can be accepted because [the reform] is already in the Constitution,'” Sheinbaum said.
“… There is coherence in the justice’s vote. … We might have differences with the justice, but in this case reason prevailed, the Constitution prevailed, the rule of law prevailed,” she said.
“… It was good news yesterday … for all Mexicans,” Sheinbaum said.
* Click here to read MND’s full story on the Supreme Court’s decision.
The energy transition and ‘clear rules’ for electricity sector investors
“We’re going to move ahead in a sustainable and very determined way in the energy transition,” Sheinbaum said.
“We will reduce the impact on the environment and the emissions that cause global warming.”
Earlier in the president’s press conference, Energy Minister Luz Elena González presented the government’s National Electricity Sector Strategy.
Part of that strategy is having “clear rules” for private investment in the sector, González said.
“Private participation in electricity generation will be maintained with a percentage of up to 46%,” she said.
The state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has a guaranteed 54% stake in electricity generation, as per a recently promulgated energy reform.
CFE director Emilia Calleja told Sheinbaum’s press conference that US $23.4 billion will be invested in the utility over the next six years. Over half of that amount – $12.4 billion – will go to electricity generation projects, including renewable ones, she said.
Sheinbaum said that the CFE will continue “growing” and become stronger during her six-year term.
“How? With already proven financial schemes, with which we’re going to continue increasing … [electricity] generation. And a very significant percentage of that will be from renewable energy sources,” she said.
By Mexico News Daily chief staff writer Peter Davies ([email protected])
I did notice in the published photo she didn’t have her ever present smile. I know it was unintentional and random. Just saying. In the image of Trump he’s grinning like the cat that ate the canary. Sheinbaum is full of 💩 saying she doesn’t fear the election results and/or the crazy SOB that is the next POTUS.
The Morena Party’s landslide victory wouldn’t have been, had AMLO spent any money to do ANYTHING to curb immigration and the free flow of drugs into the US. He did nothing to take a stand or rock the boat. He essentially “paid off” the very poor and spent too much on pet projects trying to get the poorest regions some tourism dollars. And it worked, they loved him. It was false hope. Now they will surely pay for it and Mexico will suffer. How Sheinbaum concedes to the US will have everything to do with her legacy. AMLO could afford to talk loud and proud and declare Mexico would stand as it’s own Country, America be damned. He faced no US political ramifications. He was friendly with Russia and China and other Dictators, to the dismay of US Democrats.
Now, with Trump in office, who’s a bigger friend to those sinister leaders, Mexico will be the US’s whipping post. Another shortsighted decision AMLO made. Add all the Constitutional ammendments he trumpeted and President Sheinbaum rushed through, and it will all but eliminate the near shoring opportunities Mexico once had.
Regardless of how shitty it is, no poor Country will ever develop without the US’s blessing, or lots & lots of resources – like oil. It isn’t right, it isn’t fair, but it is reality. There’s a reason the UN is basically an international arm of America, and that the US dollar is the global financial standard. 😮 🤯
Those are contributing factors to why I believe the demise of our world is 20 – 30 years off. The little guys, try as they will, HAVE to resort to trying to bring America down to flourish… NO ONE WILL WIN trying to fight the US. After WWII, global powers ensured another Hitler wouldn’t get an opportunity to mess with what they thought at the time was the “right” way for the world. They never imagined that the next crazy Hitler-type leader would be an American President. Enemies may strike a blow, celebrate small victories, but to quote a redneck American anthem, “we’ll (don’t include me) put a boot in your ass, it’s the American way!”. If America doesn’t lead, it will destroy everything, so that no one else can.
I hope and pray I am wrong. However, almost 250 years of history kinda backs up what I am saying.
America’s 250th Birthday will occur during Trump’s Presidency. Just wait and see the display of Amercan pomp, entitlement, and military strength. It’ll be bigger than anything any Dictator has ever paraded in front of his citizenry and the global media. I wouldn’t bet against a fairly large terrorist attack (or attempted attack) during 2026 either. Especially around July 4th. It’s a Martyr’s wet dream to be forever remembered for hitting the US during such an important year in it’s history. 🥃🤙✌️&❤️. I should quit drinking and reading the news… but it’s all I can think to do today 🤬😪. IDK why I expected better results. The realization that so many Americans are just shitty people hit hard this morning. I don’t agree with everything the Democrats do, but as a God fearing, decent human, I thought good would win in the end. I wish I weren’t educated, or didn’t read, or give a damn about others, because ignorance has taken over and ignorance clearly is bliss.
Like many other US expats and US residents, I share your pain and angst. For the good to win in the end, there must be a clear message of support for the working man and woman, a group that includes millions of Hispanics, who aspire to become part of the middle class. The Dems didn’t really speak to them in an effective way so they drank Trump’s flavor of Kool-Aid instead.
Sheinbaum is projecting wishful thinking if she’s telling Mexicans on both sides of the border not to worry, a la Alfred E. Newman of Mad Magazine fame. Take Trump and his minions at their word when they talk about mass deportations and tariffs on Mexican goods and products even if it means sending not just the Mexican but also the US economy into recession. Trump is, as always, being manipulated by flatterers and sycophants who have their own agendas and racism directed toward Mexicans is a large part of it. I’d like to see my fellow Americans in the fields of CA and other places doing stoop labor or processing the meat, chicken and produce we consume. Everyone should watch A Day Without Mexicans to get a glimmer of an idea of what life in the US would be like without these noble hard working, tax paying people.