Trump and Sheinbaum agree via telephone, Mexico and the US cool trade tensions – Diario Basta!

Visits

• Neoliberalism arrived with frauds, now they deny the existence of freedoms
• Zedillo criticizes freedoms, Claudia defends government with figures
• Head of the Executive reaffirms national sovereignty

JUAN R. HERNÁNDEZ
CANTON GROUP

Mexico City.- From early on, the Treasury Room of the National Palace showed its usual mix of expectation and early morning yawns. But this time, the president Claudia Sheinbaum He carried news under his arm that stopped the murmuring:

“There will be no tariffs on November 1st.” With a firm voice and a restrained smile, he revealed that over the weekend he had a brief but meaningful telephone conversation with Donald Trump. “It was a cordial call, we talked about trade and we agreed to continue working; for now, there is no situation that will lead to tariffs,” he announced.

There was relief in the room. Trump had threatened to impose measures on Mexican exports, but Sheinbaum’s diplomacy, pragmatic and without fuss, managed to cool the scene.

“With Trump you never know,” he said ironically, causing laughter among reporters. He said that both leaders agreed that “we are doing very well” in security, migration and trade, and that they will talk again soon.

In contrast to the conciliatory tone towards Washington, the president showed firmness in defending national sovereignty in the face of the American magnate’s new announcements to pursue drug traffickers outside its territory: “We will always act with the conviction of defending our sovereignty.” And he boasted results of bilateral collaboration: between 400 and 500 weapons were seized before arriving in Mexico.

But the most heated moment of the conference came when he referred to the former president Ernesto Zedillo. “In Mexico there is democracy,” he stressed, responding to the statements of the former PRI president, who told a Spanish newspaper that the country lives without freedoms. Sheinbaum He raised his tone slightly: “In 2024 we won with 60% of the votes. Today there is absolute freedom of expression, no matter what they say.”

He listed the frauds of 1988 and 2006, Fobaproa and the bank bailouts, remembering that democracy was not born with technocrats. “Neoliberalism in Mexico was imposed with fraud and vote buying, and now they come to say that there is no democracy,” he launched with irony.

Thus, between reconstruction data due to the rains and figures for support for victims, the president once again made her style clear: firm in the defense of Mexico, close to the people and not afraid to respond, neither to Trump nor to Zedillo.

In the Palace, the echo of his final phrase summed up the day: “The transformation movement has always fought for democracy, equality and sovereignty. That does not change, although some do not want to understand it.”