Just when he seems most mired in the mess he created by launching the war against Iran a few months before the World Cup and the US midterm elections, Donald Trump decided to escalate his rhetoric with Mexico. We are reminded that a couple of weeks ago he began his Shield of the Americas summit, in which he placed our country in the crosshairs of his new regional political-military alliance, as the epicenter of drug cartel violence. Yesterday, he made a veiled comment to President Claudia Sheinbaum regarding the reasons for Mexico’s refusal to accept military aid, and received the response that perhaps he is misinformed because there is security cooperation, but under the non-negotiable premise of respect for sovereignty. It appears that his desire to overthrow the Iranian Islamic regime is becoming increasingly distant. Could it be that the master of smokescreens is viewing the cartels as his “Plan B” to extricate himself from the Persian entanglement?
We’re told the government is trying every trick in the book to convince the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Party to support the infamous alternative plan to the failed electoral reform. They’re doing this by reminding them that in 2024 they signed a document committing to vote in favor of all Morena’s initiatives, or by sending coded messages from the National Palace. We hear that the Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, and the coordinator of the Morena deputies, Ricardo Monreal, have been tasked with bringing the allied parties into line, but they’ve made little progress. The PT and the Green Party remain steadfast in their refusal to shoot themselves in the foot, and we’re assured that Senator Manuel Velasco’s friendly statements toward Plan B continue to clash with the stance of the party’s real leader, Jorge Emilio González, known as “El Niño Verde” (The Green Kid).
We’re also told that the executives of Bancomext, headed by Roberto Lazzeri, are eager to enjoy the perks at the expense of the public budget. We’ve been told that a few days ago, the Sub-Directorate of Acquisitions of Movable Goods and Services awarded contract E-2026-00019249, for a maximum amount of almost half a million pesos, to a private company for the supply of perishable and non-perishable goods for preparing food for the bank’s executive offices. The menu? Suadero (a type of beef cut), surimi, pork steak, crab surimi sticks, among other things. Enjoy!
We’re told that Senator Verónica Díaz Robles, who is related by marriage to the Monreal clan, has become that group’s chosen candidate in the face of Morena’s anti-nepotism policy that excludes Senator Saúl Monreal. We’re told that the legislator is trying to shield herself behind the narrative of “political violence against women” to avoid questions about her role within the family’s political project, precisely at a time when Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has taken a public stance against such practices. Could it be that she wants to follow in the footsteps of Congresswoman Diana Karina Barreras, better known as Protected Data?
Source: eluniversal
