Sheinbaum’s mañanera in 60 seconds

• 💰 All CAC Games medals to get cash prizes: Conade chief Rommel Pacheco announced that every medal won by Mexican athletes at the 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games — not just an athlete’s best result, as was previously the rule — will earn a cash reward.

• 🥇 Payouts by medal color: Individual golds are worth 50,000 pesos, silvers 35,000 pesos and bronzes 15,000 pesos, with different amounts for team events.

• 🇲🇽 Best-ever CAC Games performance: Mexico won a record 407 medals (167 gold, 125 silver, 115 bronze) at the Santo Domingo Games, held July 24–Aug. 8.

• ⚽ Pacheco touts 2031 Women’s World Cup bid: Mexico, the U.S., Costa Rica and Jamaica are the only bidders for the 2031 tournament, and Pacheco said Mexico would be a “great host,” as it was for the recent men’s World Cup.

• 🇨🇴 Mexican aid en route to earthquake-hit Colombia: Two Air Force planes carrying 19.5 tonnes of humanitarian aid left for the city of Pereira on Wednesday morning, with Army troops also deploying to help.

• 📦 58.5 tonnes of aid by Friday: Sheinbaum said additional shipments will go out Thursday and Friday, bringing food, water and medicine to Colombia, where Monday’s 7.4-magnitude earthquake has killed at least 254 people.

Why today’s mañanera matters 

The most significant information from President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Wednesday morning press conference was that:

1. Each and every medal won by Mexican athletes at the 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games will be rewarded with a cash prize.
2. Mexican humanitarian aid is on its way to Colombia, where a major earthquake on Monday caused widespread damage and significant loss of life.

Mexico’s performance at the recent Olympics-style sporting event in the Dominican Republic and its response to the temblor in Colombia underscore its position as a regional power.

Mexico — the Western Hemisphere’s third most populous country and fourth largest economy — invariably lends a hand when disaster strikes in the region. It went to Venezuela’s assistance when a powerful earthquake struck that country on June 24, while this month it sent more than 300 firefighters to British Columbia, Canada, as intense forest fires raged in the province.

All medals won by Mexicans in Dominican Republic will be rewarded with cash prizes  

At the start of her press conference, Sheinbaum noted that medalists from the recently concluded Central American and Caribbean Games were in attendance.

“We’re very proud of you, of the role you played at the Central American Games, a medal record,” she said.

Medallero final de los XXV Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe #SantoDomingo2026 🥇🥈🥉

Felicidades a cada una de las delegaciones por una cosecha llena de esfuerzo y orgullo. ¡Nos vemos en los próximos Juegos! 💙

Final medal standings of the XXV Central American and Caribbean… pic.twitter.com/7JtZ7jjcUW

— Santo Domingo 2026 (@SDQ2026) August 8, 2026

Mexico won a total of 407 medals at the 16-day event held from July 24 to Aug. 8 in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. Mexican competitors took home 167 gold medals, 125 silver medals and 115 bronze medals.

Rommel Pacheco, director of the National Commission for Physical Culture and Sport (Conade), told reporters that Mexico’s medal haul amounted to its best ever performance at the Central American and Caribbean Games, a multi-sport event contested by more than 30 countries every four years.

“Behind every one of these medals, there were months [and] years of training,” Pacheco said.

Later in his presentation, the Conade chief announced that all medalists from the 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games would receive a cash prize from the government for each and every medal they won.

“As you know, when [Mexican] athletes win medals at the Central American Games, the Pan American Games, the Olympics or World Championships, they get a scholarship and also an economic stimulus,” Pacheco said.

“… Normally, only the best medal [an athlete wins] is rewarded. But the president said to me: ‘I think we should reward all the medals.’ So the surprise is that for both athletes and trainers, all the medals will be rewarded,” he said.

Pacheco later noted that an individual gold medal is rewarded with 50,000 pesos (US $2,930), while silver and bronze medals are rewarded with 35,000 and 15,000 pesos, respectively.

“For teams it varies a little bit,” he said.

“… What’s going to happen is that all medals are going to be rewarded. For example, we have a swimmer who, on her own, won 11 medals,” Pacheco said, referring to 23-year-old Guanajuato native Celia Pulido.

Pacheco: Mexico will be a ‘great host’ of 2031 women’s World Cup 

Pacheco noted that Mexico is vying to be a host of the 2031 FIFA women’s World Cup.

Mexico, the United States, Costa Rica and Jamaica submitted a joint bid to host the quadrennial tournament. No other bids have been submitted, meaning that it’s all but certain that the four Western Hemisphere countries will host the 2031 event.

Pacheco said that if Mexico is confirmed as a co-host of the 2031 women’s World Cup — the next edition of which will be played in Brazil next year — Mexicans will be “happy.”

Hosting a World Cup “grows the spirit of the sport,” he said.

“We will be a great host as we were with the [men’s] World Cup,” Pacheco said.

Sheinbaum: Mexican aid heading to Colombia today 

Sheinbaum told reporters that the Mexican government received a specific aid request from the government of Colombia, where a 7.4 magnitude earthquake on Monday toppled buildings in various towns and cities and claimed at least 254 lives, according to a Reuters report on Wednesday morning.

She said that two Mexican Air Force planes carrying 19.5 tonnes of humanitarian aid departed the Felipe Ángeles International Airport on Wednesday morning to fly to Pereira, Colombia.

“Mexican Army troops are also obviously going to help in all the [rescue and recovery] work,” Sheinbaum said.

She said that Mexico will send more humanitarian aid to Colombia on Thursday and Friday. A total of 58.5 tonnes of Mexican aid, including food and other essential goods, will be sent to the South American country between Wednesday and Friday, Sheinbaum said.

“Water is being sent, medicine is being sent as well,” she said.

“We’re going to be in contact [with the Colombian government] … in order to provide all the support Colombia needs,” Sheinbaum said.