Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Very well too. How are you? I still haven't gotten used to having you all here so close. Yes. Well, please, take a seat.
Today we continue with the information from each secretariat of the government of Mexico. Yesterday, Luisa María Alcalde was here with the summary or information on all the constitutional and legal changes we have made since our government took office. And now we are going to give the floor to the Ministry of the Interior, and for that we have with us Secretary Rosa Isela Rodríguez, along with the Undersecretary for Peace Building, Social Participation and Religious Affairs, Rocío Bárcena; the Undersecretary of the Interior, César Yáñez; the Undersecretary for Human Rights, Population and Migration, Arturo Medina; and Sergio Salomón, Commissioner of the National Migration Institute; and Armando Quintero, who helps us greatly in the general coordination of the National Institute for Federalism and Municipal Development, coordinating with all the mayors of our country. So, let's give the floor to Rosa Isela.
After today's press conference, we go to the Heroic Military College. It marks 50 years since its establishment in the Tlalpan borough of Mexico City. And afterwards we go to Morelos, and we will close today in Durango with the report from each of the entities of the Republic. As we discussed, on Friday we will be in Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí and Aguascalientes. And on Sunday in Jalisco and Nayarit, Colima, Jalisco and Nayarit. We return on Sunday night to Mexico City. Well, let's go to Rosa Isela for the report from the Ministry of the Interior.
With your permission, President. Good morning to all of you. This morning, as part of the government report of President Claudia Sheinbaum, we will present a summary of the main actions carried out by the Ministry of the Interior: dialogue and respect for freedoms, respect for human rights, and peace building. And so I must say that during this administration, the governability of the Republic has been preserved through dialogue and consensus-building. We address social protest with sensitivity, in coordination with the three levels of government, to achieve the peaceful resolution of conflicts.
In Mexico, the full exercise of all freedoms is guaranteed: freedom of assembly, freedom of expression, freedom of demonstration, freedom of worship, freedom of the press, and constitutional rights and guarantees are exercised. There is zero censorship and zero repression. Mexico is a country of rights and freedoms. We also work to prevent any form of discrimination. We are against classism, racism, machismo, homophobia, and misogyny. As part of domestic policy, we maintain a respectful relationship with the different branches of government, political and social actors, as well as with the cooperation of international organizations.
We guarantee regular, orderly and safe human mobility. Between October 2024 and June 2026, we recorded more than 88,200,000 entries of national and foreign visitors to the country. And with the National Repatriation Strategy 'Mexico Te Abraza' (Mexico Embraces You), born from the heart of our president to receive our fellow nationals with dignity and humanism, we have provided more than 1,600,000 services of food, lodging, medical care, enrollment in welfare programs, transfer to their communities of origin, paisano cards, job placement, and various procedures. We work in a government that puts victims and their families at the center, as well as those who defend rights and journalists, Indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples, girls, boys and adolescents, and we guarantee the right to international protection and asylum. Respect for rights extends to those deprived of their liberty, and we promote mechanisms for humanitarian release. We also work on the safe environment for displaced families in their communities, such as in Chiapas, Guerrero, Michoacán, Chihuahua and Oaxaca.
We also strengthened the National Search Strategy with 10 actions: ensuring that all reports in the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons have complete data; ensuring that each disappearance report has an investigation file; reporting on progress in the search and location of persons; reporting on progress in the National Immediate Search Alert; reinforcing searches in hospitals, detention centers and other institutions; implementing the Human Identification Plan to clear the forensic backlog together with the Attorney General's Office; preventing the recruitment and co-optation of young people through digital platforms; expanding the operational, technical and human capabilities of the National Search Commission with specialized personnel and equipment; maintaining permanent attention and dialogue with families of missing persons and collectives; and taking the strategy to the territory through visits to states in attention days for families and coordination with the federal entities.
In the case of Ayotzinapa, we are working hand in hand with the Attorney General's Office, using new methodologies and technological tools. Information is being analyzed, field searches are being conducted, and elements and data have been obtained for new lines of investigation that continue today and have led the competent authorities to the arrest and arraignment of persons who had not been investigated. A full report will be available shortly, but I must say that there will be impunity and no one is above the law.
Since May 12 of this year, at the instruction of the president, we implemented, together with the state government, the master plan for the high and low mountains of Guerrero to provide close and humane attention to the inhabitants of 19 communities in Atlispa, Chilapa de Álvarez, Olinalá, Zapotitlán de Tablas, with the permanent presence in the territory of the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection, the Ministry of Defense, the National Guard, and the Ministry of the Navy. Most of the displaced families returned to their communities, where they now have electricity, medical care, and medication. In addition, we provide food support, procedures, scholarships, training, and technical assistance for producers while road and housing works advance.
In the axis of addressing the causes, which is the first pillar of the National Public Security Strategy, through the 298 peace tables, the entire effort of authorities from the three levels of government is articulated to analyze the conditions of governability and security, in order to establish agreements and actions for the benefit of the population. And from the Ministry of the Interior, also through the Institute that serves municipalities, we have effective coordination with more than 2,400 municipalities to streamline the implementation of programs and actions. We also launched, at the instruction of the president, the coordination of the comprehensive plan for the eastern region of the State of Mexico together with the governor to reverse the lag in the 10 municipalities and bring well-being to their inhabitants, also in conjunction with the municipal mayors.
We understand that the path to building peace begins in the territory. For this reason, we go to the communities and carry out door-to-door visits to meet young people and their families and bring services, programs and activities through peace fairs, the well-being tianguis, and the 'Yes to Disarmament, Yes to Peace' campaign. Also through 'Young People Transforming Mexico', the president instructed us to offer young people alternatives for life and possibilities to stay on the side of peace with education, health, culture, sports, recreation, with attention to the causes, with the support of many agencies, to whom we always thank for their work. We have offered 8.5 million procedures and services to 4.9 million people. And in these first two years of government, the Ministry of the Interior has worked under the direction of President Claudia Sheinbaum so that governability, politics, and peace building prevail in the country.
And we have done so with respectful dialogue with the different branches of government, autonomous bodies, unions, churches, businesspeople, victims, social organizations, farmers, Indigenous peoples, searching mothers, workers, women and men from different communities, but also knocking on people's doors, bringing the government's programs and services to communities, accompanying their return home with humanism and solidarity, because we are clear that peace is not achieved only with the presence of security forces, but also by addressing the causes that generate violence. We build peace with the conviction that war should never again be privileged as a solution to conflicts. Violence only generates more violence, and the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum seeks peace and the happiness of the people. Thank you for your attention. There is a video.
It is a strategic institution of the Mexican State, responsible for governability, the conduct of domestic policy, and relations with the different levels of government. Through dialogue and consensus, never through force, we bring conflicting parties together to address social demands. We maintain full respect for and defense of human rights. In addition, the government of Mexico is advancing in a fundamental task: recognizing human rights violations, attending to victims, and building conditions to guarantee their reparation with truth and justice, as occurred with the agreements in Cananea and the progress in the Dirty War. Likewise, we support the inhabitants of the high and low mountains of Guerrero, Chiapas, Chihuahua and Oaxaca for their safe return in cases of displacement.
Mexico is a nation that defends regular, orderly and safe human mobility. In two years, we have attended the entry of more than 86 million foreign visitors through the National Migration Institute. And for the safe and dignified return of nationals coming from the United States, we have the 'Mexico Te Abraza' strategy. Meanwhile, within the framework of the national security strategy, through the axis of addressing the causes that generate violence, we address inequality, exclusion and discrimination. We go door to door to bring communities programs of well-being, health, education, sports, culture, procedures and services. We organize peace fairs, the well-being tianguis, and the 'Yes to Disarmament, Yes to Peace' campaign. And to keep young people away from crime and addiction, we coordinate 'Young People Transforming Mexico'. With all these actions, the Ministry of the Interior places the rights and well-being of people at the center of the country's domestic policy.
Thank you very much, Rosa Isela, and the whole team. The work of the Ministry of the Interior and of Secretary Rosa Isela and her team sometimes goes unnoticed, and sometimes those jobs that go unnoticed — that is, that do not generate big news in the media — speak to how well the work is done because the governability of the country is being safeguarded. Let me give you some examples. Recently, a few months ago, we saw a series of displaced families in the mountains of Guerrero. What did we do in the security cabinet? We met, and I asked Rosa Isela to take charge of bringing different secretariats to the area, to the municipalities with the greatest problems. They went there with the presence of the National Guard. First they resolved a conflict because the roads were closed, at that time together with the government of the state of Guerrero, and since then they have remained there supporting the communities. The displaced families have returned, and that means very intense work because it is coordination work to resolve conflicts that exist in the communities, security issues sometimes caused by problems with a group present in an area, and at the same time attention to the people who need it.
They could not plant this time; there was a drought and there is not enough cultivation, so bringing corn, bringing beans, attending to the people — the young people there do not have high school, coordinating with public education to bring the construction of a high school. That is just in one territory, in four municipalities out of the nearly 2,500 in the country. In the same way, when we are building the northern trains, or the train to Pachuca, or the train to Querétaro, there are social conflicts, there are problems, there are dissatisfied people who do not know. The Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation does its work, but who helps us resolve that problem, coordinate, sit down, hold working tables? The Ministry of the Interior. And a very important job is what we call addressing the causes, which is part of the security strategy. There they coordinate the entire government of Mexico in educational activities, or land regularization activities, or identity activities, because there may be people who do not have a birth certificate. They coordinate part of the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection, which is crime prevention, to bring young people together in the neighborhood, 'Young People Building the Future' from the Ministry of Labor. All of that is done by the Ministry of the Interior in an exemplary way.
So first, thank you to the whole team, the Search Commission, the Victims Commission — it is permanent work that helps the country a great deal. Let me give you another example: the 'Yes to Disarmament, Yes to Peace' program. In the report I gave the figure that security operations have allowed the seizure of 35,000 firearms. Well, just through 'Yes to Disarmament, Yes to Peace', voluntarily, almost 14,000 firearms have been handed in — that is, about 40% of what is seized through operations. It is very important and indispensable work for the country that Rosa Isela does in an exemplary way with her team. Well, let's go to the questions.
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Thank you, President. To see if you can inform us. Yesterday you received the visit of former President Petro. When he left, we were able to speak with him, and he talked about how one of the topics they discussed was how the left is losing ground in Latin America, or the right is gaining ground, however you want to see it. He talked about how geopolitics is being reshaped around the world. Well, geopolitics, excuse me. And I would like you to comment on what specific topics they discussed yesterday.
Well, he told me about a book he is writing, in which he touches on some topics we have discussed here, but obviously from his perspective and with information not only from Colombia, but an international reflection related to the use of digital platforms to externally influence election results, and how the international right has organized to influence in different places. And as we have discussed here, 'La Derecha Diario' and this whole group that has now really shown who they are after the arrest of one of its partners for attempted femicide, and his partner, who has spoken about the involvement of her ex-partner, Serimedo, in a whole network of influence in Latin America that comes from other countries. So he is making this reflection, and at the same time the reflection on what artificial intelligence is and the impact it can have at the national and international level. So we talked about that, about the reflection he is making in his book.
I told him about Mexico, that our perspective is very different, because here there is a large majority of the Mexican people who support the transformation and the results we have had, and that people are happy with the work the government is doing and with the transformation, with the nation project. Those were some of the topics we discussed. We invited him to come, through the Institute of History of the Mexican Revolutions, which is now going to be an institute, or already is an institute, of research and teaching, to give some talks. In short, we talked about these topics.
Thank you. The second topic: yesterday, Senator Inzunza from Sinaloa was already presented before the Senate. You have reflected a great deal on the advisability or not of holding public office or elected office when one is in the situation that Senator Inzunza is in. If you could reflect on whether it is advisable that he be there or not be there.
I think I have already answered that question about three times; we have talked a great deal about it. But yes, we have already talked about it. Each person is responsible for their own actions and for what they decide. We are not — you see, contrary to what people think, because the interpretations of our government keep changing. First, that I was an authoritarian, that I decided everything, that the president decides what happens in any corner of our country, that if the judiciary is no longer autonomous, that the president makes decisions in the judiciary, that if Congress does exactly what the president says, that if the governors... No, that was the interpretation. Now, no, the president doesn't govern; in reality, they govern from Palenque. Next interpretation: the president is nervous. Well, yesterday they even invented that I had a nervous breakdown before entering... excuse me, it was laughter, it was so much laughter that I had a nervous breakdown before entering the report. What else?
So, of course I am President of the Republic and I decide public policy and I coordinate the cabinet and we define the progress, but each governor is autonomous in their state. Each senator and each deputy makes the decision of their vote on their own conscience. So each person is responsible, and the autonomy of the institutions is respected. So a senator already knows my opinion, already knows the opinion I have expressed here several times, but the decision is ultimately the person's. That's right.
Thank you. And finally, President, yesterday the Secretary of Economy met with his counterpart in the United States, Howard Lutnick. Any report he has given you about the progress in the negotiations to renew the trade agreement?
We are working very intensively. Marcelo Ebrard, the Secretary of Economy, is there with his team and the team we incorporated to support the secretary, with Julio Berdegué, Dr. Julio Berdegué, the Ambassador of Mexico in the United States, Roberto Lázaro, and also Diana Alarcón, who is our representative to the World Bank since she is in Washington, and Altagracia Gómez, who, by the way, we send a hug and our condolences from here for the passing of her father. She has a relationship with businesspeople, apart from the consultation that is done with the different chambers. All of them are supporting to be able to reach an agreement on the reduction of tariffs on steel, aluminum, and cars. That is one part. Another part is a new package that the United States has had for a long time toward several countries in the world, which is on an article called 301, on production capacity.
So there is collaboration, permanent dialogue. Marcelo went — last week he went to Washington twice, he returned, and now he is there. And so we are seeking the best possible agreement for Mexico under all these conditions, and we are doing well; we hope to reach a beneficial agreement. The international reality has changed, and the reality from the United States has changed. It is not the same as before President Trump arrived. Practically the whole world has tariffs to export products to the United States — or the whole world, depending on the countries, they have different tariffs. We are among the best positioned countries because most of the goods exported to the United States do not have tariffs, but we still want a better agreement on steel, aluminum, and automobiles. And there is permanent dialogue to see if we can find a better agreement than the one we have, or the one that was imposed on us, because the tariffs were really not an agreement but a unilateral decision by the United States toward Mexico. And fortunately we have good dialogue, good communication, and we hope to keep moving forward. We will inform you how the talks and the results are going.
In that complex relationship with the United States that you have spoken about so much, does there come a moment when trade negotiation contaminates the security issue? They are two parallel issues. The United States is interested in three topics: migration, security, and trade. We are also interested in other topics, and in addition, in all three topics we always talk about collaboration and reciprocity. In the migration topic, just as we support, we also ask that there be cooperation for development. That is to say, it cannot be that, being neighbors, they seek for Mexico not to do well, because if Mexico does not do well economically, there will be more migration. That is the history of Mexico. This is always reciprocal.
In the case of security, you already know our position; we have said it here several times. They seek to prevent the entry of different drugs from Mexico into the United States, and we have always said, yes, but that there should not be weapons coming from the United States to Mexico, and also that they address the issue of consumption in the United States. And in the trade topic, what we seek is reciprocal treatment and the best conditions for Mexico. So that is the dialogue we have with them. And the truth is that, apart from some statements from some agencies or people in general who are very influenced also by their elections in November, or by a vision that they can decide about Mexico, apart from that, which is more declarative, the relations are of mutual respect, and we want them to remain so. Thank you very much.
Well, let's go to this side to see who else. Let's see, the colleague here in the corner on this side, back here.
Thank you. Thank you, President. Laura Ávila from Posta. To ask you about a first topic: recently, 135 animals were seized in Tamaulipas. I understand that so far they do not have an assigned place to care for these animals. If you have information on this, if you already know where they are going to be placed and what care they will receive.
Now, if Mariana can inform us. Now, let her inform us.
Thank you, President. On another topic, recently the Supreme Court ordered the water supply to more than 800 families in Ecatepec. This is because the families filed a legal action to have water supplied to them. We know that actions have been taken for the water supply in the eastern part of the State of Mexico. However, in Ecatepec, the water supply problem is constant and ongoing. Let's see if you have actions planned specifically for this community.
They are close. Let's see what Efraín tells you. How many wells did we rehabilitate in Ecatepec? 24. 24. Well, here is Armando. 24 water wells that were not functioning are now operating in Ecatepec, and very important work is being done to rehabilitate the drinking water distribution network. Not long ago I met a person — well, when I go out and people approach me — who thanked me because water had reached her house in Ecatepec. Work is going very well with the municipal president, with the CONAGUA, and progress is being made in the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico, particularly the eastern part, and that is why the plan we are developing, the actions we are developing, for a long time were abandoned, mainly by the governments of the State of Mexico. It is close to 10 million inhabitants, and even being close to one of the entities with the greatest wealth generation, which is Mexico City and the State of Mexico itself, which is one of the entities with the greatest wealth generation in the country, it has important problems of poverty, and many of them have to do with access to public services.
So these areas grew without hospitals, without schools, without universities, without high schools, with resources that were not destined to improve the drinking water service, to pave the streets, to provide lighting — due to corruption and the use of resources for other things. So now we are making up for this lag, and it is coordinated work between Maestra Delfina, the government of Mexico, and the municipal presidencies. Armando Quintero helps us with the coordination of all this work.
Of course. And in that sense, have you identified zones or places where work will be done so that this recovery happens specifically in Ecatepec?
There is a very ambitious plan for the entire metropolitan area of Mexico, particularly for the eastern part, to bring water. It has to do — not long ago I was there with the rehabilitation of Lake Guadalupe, with the rehabilitation of a very important duct that carries water to the eastern part, with the rehabilitation of some wells, with changes in the drinking water distribution network. It is a project that, if I'm not mistaken, is about 25 billion pesos, and that will allow us to bring more water to Ecatepec and to other municipalities in the eastern part of the State of Mexico, to Iztapalapa, to the north of Mexico City, to Gustavo Madero, and it will also allow more water to arrive through the Cutzamala system to the Tlalpan borough, which are, let's say, the boroughs of the city with the greatest scarcity or, rather than scarcity, the greatest problem with water supply, because sometimes there is enough water that arrives, but there are leaks or there is not enough infrastructure for water to reach homes every day or seven days a week.
But do you have identified how many zones or how many...
Yes, it is totally identified, even block by block. Where is the problem?
Thank you, President. On another topic: yesterday the case of the murder of a family in Atizapán, in the State of Mexico, was made public, which has shocked many people because of the atrocity of the crime. Have you been informed about this case?
Yes, they informed me about it since yesterday. It is indeed a very sad, regrettable situation. There are already arrests, and the causes are also known — a dispute the family had with another family. Even the media have already published something, and support is being provided to the families by the government of the State of Mexico and whatever we can do from the Ministry of the Interior, but there have already been arrests.
Yes. Well, let's go to this side. Let's see, the colleague here who hasn't asked a question in a long time — you.
Thank you. Good morning, President. I am Carlos Pozos from LM Noticias. Good morning to the officials present here. I begin with my first question. It is claimed that there is a public policy of the federal government, an assignment for the Ministry of Culture, to humiliate a Mexican citizen. That Mexican citizen is named Felipe Calderón. There is an instruction to humiliate a Mexican politically and publicly — well, it is not explained why his statue has been lying on the ground for so long at the former official residence of Los Pinos. That is how Ciro Gómez Leiva defends it.
President, I understand that in Morena the cult of personality is rejected, especially because former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stipulated in his will his rejection of statues, monuments being raised, or streets, schools or hospitals being named after him. President, in this month of the will, I ask you: do you already have your political will? And also, do you consider that the true tribute to a social leader consists of giving continuity to their ideals and following the example of service?
Those were many questions. I do not have my normal will ready. I have a property, which is a social interest apartment in Santa Úrsula Cuapa, next to the former Azteca Stadium. That is my property, because really I am passing on to my children in life. That is how I think. Now, the royalties from the book I obtained, I also gave to my children, because that is how I think. But a political will, no, I do not have one prepared. I think that you already know my thinking: what one takes with them at the end, what people think of one, one's reputation, what one's children think of their mother, one's grandchildren, and what the people of Mexico think. And that is the best legacy one can leave.
In the case of President López Obrador, well, as I have said, he is in the heart of the Mexican people. No matter what they say, no matter how much they keep talking about him, no matter how much some people dislike it, he stayed in the heart of the people, and that is not going to change. Others have been left with a different reputation — as thieves, as corrupt, as sellouts, as having left a trail of deaths. Well, that is what they leave for history; that is their legacy.
Thank you, President, for your response. As my second question, of the various analyses of your second report, one caught my attention: 'La Mesa de Leo Zuckerman' on 'La Hora de Opinar'. They agree on the panel that your second report lost the majesty of the neoliberal reports. They say the day of the president is over. They claim that the morning press conferences have stripped the report of its great attributes. They consider that your report was a somewhat briefer 'conference of the people'. In this context, President, it leads me to ask you: in these 23 months of administration, now that the world is watching Mexico, do you think our country, Mexico, can be governed without the conferences of the people? And in that sense, do you agree with institutionalizing the conferences of the people as proposed by Deputy Alejandro Robles?
It is a decision of each president or president how they inform and how they render accounts. We render accounts every day, in fact, from Monday to Friday. And when we go to the territories, we also render accounts of what we do in each entity: the problems, the delivery of resources we make, the welfare programs, the work inspections we do, the inaugurations — all of that is rendering accounts. So I agree that rulers should render accounts, not just on September 1st of each year. Before, accounts were not rendered; now we render accounts every day. So maybe in the government report we can give concrete figures, concrete results, the government's vision, but in fact we inform every day; the rendering of accounts is every day. But it is a decision of each president or president how to inform, how to render accounts. And what has been demonstrated is that since the transformation arrived in our country, there cannot be more transparency and more rendering of accounts than in the morning press conferences.
Thank you, President. And finally, in 23 months of great changes, it has been shown that Mexico is strong. That is how you expressed it on September 1st. On this occasion, I raise this question to you with some words used by scientists. Therefore, the question is: do you consider that there is some degree of entropy in the system of Mexican governance during this period of your administration? Or has it fallen into the dystopia that conservatives argue?
Let's make it simpler. Yes, President. You see, today I was watching the media because, as I tell you, at 6 in the morning we arrived at the security meeting, and when we finished, around 7:15, to come here, Belmont passes me — well, since 4 he sends me the news summary at 4 in the morning, which is more or less the time I wake up. So he sends me the news summary, the newspapers, everything — well, obviously I can't read them all. And then at the time of the conference — I mean, of the security meeting — he sends me a short summary of the most important news and some opinions from commentators. That's how it is; I inform myself before arriving at the press conference. And well, what we obviously see every day in the meetings with the secretaries, the secretariats, with the cabinets.
And so it catches my attention, first, what everyone says, because it comes in waves, right? As I was telling you: the authoritarian one, the one who doesn't govern, the one who has conflicts, the one who informs every day, the one who doesn't inform. If I do A, it's because I did A; if I do B, it's because I did B. But what's striking is that out of 100% of the commentators, 99% say exactly the same thing. Doesn't that seem strange to you? Doesn't it seem strange? Synchronized swimming. I mean, they have a chat, I think, where they all inform each other: 'Hey, now the line goes this way, the line goes that way.' Well, if they don't have information, they invent. They invent like that — where do they get it? Well, we have to say that if they are creative, right? To be inventing so many lies.
The media. Well, there is one outlet that didn't even report that there was a report, because, well, it is a national event, September 1st, right? Don't you agree? The report of a president, of a president. And so every day they dedicate themselves to publishing, to constructing a narrative that something was done wrong. Yesterday, a friend of a friend of the son of a neighbor who no longer has businesses is a friend of the son of President López Obrador. That's how it is. That's the note. Then the television people, the radio people — I think there are maybe 2, 3, 4, 5% of programs that are minimally plural. That's the damage. And then we come out in the polls with 68, 69, 70% approval. So one says, well, where is reality in the media? How is a reality reflected in the media that occurs with the people, with the public? They are two completely different realities. One is virtual and lives in the heads of a group of people, and the other is the one lived every day and shown in polls like the INEGI one, which says that the rating people give to their life satisfaction is 8.75 out of 10.
So it is — the great majority of the media and the construction made on social networks through the mechanisms we have discussed want to show a reality in Mexico that, in reality, has nothing of truth. That is what we live between the media and the everyday reality of the people. That is why we inform every day directly, because imagine if there were no morning press conference, all that would be left is what comes out in the media or what comes out on social networks. So they are there, I don't know, in their — how many — well, they even speak ill of the peoples of Mexico, and then they revive some people that nobody listened to anymore, as if that were going to give them more ratings, besides, right?
So we, I am very calm, happy, and working every day, every day, every day to fulfill the commitments we made to the Mexican people. And the people notice it, they know that we are working every day for the well-being of the people and the defense of sovereignty. And we will continue like this, not only until the last day of the government, but until the last day of our lives. Thank you very much, President. Thank you. Let's go to this side. Who hasn't asked a question? Let's see, over here. Let's see, the colleague here in the middle, the colleague with glasses here in the middle. I don't know — excuse me, I don't remember your name.
Don't worry, President. Good day, Juan Pablo Guerrero from Canal del Congreso. To ask you — excuse me — first of all, the ordinary legislative session has already begun; there are close to 30 legislative projects that will be seen between now and December. Is there any priority that the government of the Republic has for them to be approved in the chambers of Congress?
Well, we sent the nationality initiative. That is, that governors and the President of the Republic — or president — or governors can only have one nationality. By the way, there are those who say that with that initiative political rights are taken away. You can't participate if you have dual nationality — it's just that you have to renounce the other one and be only Mexican. Because, look how important this is: when you have dual nationality, you swear loyalty to one country and to another. You can even have triple nationality. So you swear loyalty as a person to three countries. That's fine. And a Mexican man or woman can have two, three, four nationalities. There's no problem with that. The problem is if you want to be President of the Republic — to whom do you swear loyalty? To one country or to two? Because if you swear loyalty to two countries, then where does your loyalty lie before the people you lead, or coordinate, or intend to represent?
So, well, the nationality initiative was sent. There is the initiative of the General Law to address femicide, which we want, as you know, to be investigated throughout the country in a similar way, and for all the public ministries to behave similarly and use the same mechanisms when a femicide or the violent death of a woman is investigated. Those two initiatives are already in Congress, and some others that were sent that have to do with economic topics. Recently, the one on the commission for investments was sent, and on Tuesday the entire economic package will be sent, which will be even more laws than are usually sent, which we will explain on September 9th, one day after the package is delivered. We will explain what the entire economic package consists of. And there are some other initiatives that we will be presenting little by little. Ah, there is the General Law of Ecological Balance that Alicia Bárcena presented here. So those are the ones we have sent, and there are some others that we are going to send, of constitutional reforms — only the nationality one.
Thank you, President. Regarding the economic package, we know it will be next week when it is presented. Could you confirm the trend of recent years and of the previous administration — there will be no new taxes?
Let's wait for next week. What does it essentially consist of? Reducing tax evasion. That is the objective. Unfortunately, there are still problems — it has decreased, but there are still issues with fraudulent invoicing and tax evasion. So what we want, through different mechanisms, is to guarantee that there is no evasion. The SAT has done excellent work, Antonio has done a very good job at the head of the SAT and his whole team, but there are still those who want to cheat. So essentially it has to do with that. And some other topics that we will inform you about next week.
No, I can't give you a preview of one. We want the IEPS, the fuel taxes, to have traceability. That will help us a lot with the issue that has decreased a lot, but cases of fuel theft still occur. For example, the IEPS you pay at the time of importation could have traceability at the time of distribution and all the way to the sale at the gas station. The SAT is working on that. It can't be done immediately because the SAT has to adapt, but I'll give you a preview — for example, that is one of the proposals. It's not a new tax, obviously it's the same one that exists until now, but it combats tax evasion. That is one of the topics, and just like that, there are some other topics that have to do with guaranteeing that those who don't pay taxes, pay taxes.
President, just for precision, regarding the tax evasion issue, would it be about giving the SAT more tools or increasing sanctions?
Let's wait for next week. I've already given you too much, I already gave you two notes today.
Brilliant work by the Secretary of the Interior, one, and her team. Two, traceability in gasoline. And they say, thank you, yes, let's go this way. And more, everyone has already asked a lot. Let's go.
Let's see who else, who else. Let's see the colleague. Let's go back there because they raise their hand higher.
Thank you very much, President. Julio Omar Gómez of Medios del Pacífico. President, there is an official of the ANAM, his name is Juan Carlos Rico Váez, who had already been part of the structure of the Tijuana customs during a stage marked by investigations, allegations for alleged corruption, allegations for this, he left the institution. Subsequently he filed a proceeding against his own customs authority and despite those backgrounds he returned to occupy a strategic position. Today he faces new allegations for alleged charges to speed up procedures and pressures related to payments from suppliers. President, how is it that this figure returned? What filters did he pass to verify his integrity? What was applied so that this official Juan Carlos Rico returned and how did he reincorporate, President, in this?
Well, first we have to review whether this allegation you make is true, right? That would be the first thing. Now that Alonso arrived, what was Alonso's name at Customs?
Romero, and the truth is he's doing a very good job. He's a brilliant young man, very honest, recognized by everyone who has to do with customs. He has done a great job making customs more efficient in a short time and also strengthening the institution of the National Customs Agency. Well, he made it a condition that there was already, let's say, it was on paper but not necessarily being fulfilled, that trust exams be done for everyone who comes to work at the ANAM. That is one of the proposals he made and if there is any irregularity, in fact there have been some that he himself has found that he reports administratively, he is removed from the post, reported administratively, even criminally, and that's where he finds that there is an irregularity and well, let's review this case if it is as you mention, but there is a job, I mean, the people who want to work in customs, even young people who have just joined. There have been close to 1000 people who joined customs. Young people who just graduated from university with related careers were sought, they were given trust exams through the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection to be able to enter.
President, it also seemed a bit strange to us, continuing with the same topic without letting it go, to see Darío Eugenio Reyes Gómez, also from the ANAM, who is director of modernization, equipment and customs infrastructure, he has exactly the same name as the one who appears in February 2025 as representative of Planet Solution SAS ACB in a C5 tender for more than 483,000,000 pesos. At the same time there are allegations about the alleged pressures and payment delays to suppliers within the agency.
Well, I already said I was going to check it.
That was also part of the question. Thank you very much, President. On July 21, 2026, more than 837,000,000 pesos were awarded to Emosa, Ingeniería y As, to maintain and correct anomalies in approximately 1260 km of roads in Palenque, Cancún. This is regarding the Maya Train. And Emosa was considered in 2023 with an initial capital of 200,000 and there are questions in the file about operational personnel. Obviously here to tell you, President, that besides clarifying this opacity that exists regarding this company, the concern is greater because railway incidents already occurred in Tisopc in 2024 and in IisMal in 2025, where a track change caused the partial derailment of a car. President, would you order the preventive suspension of this contract and carry out a technical audit?
Besides, what is true is that regarding the track change, the automatic train control part is being adjusted, which goes at the same pace as the entry into operation of all the trains, which is part of the program, there is no delay, it is part of the program that was planned from the very beginning and the track change essentially has human problems, rather, I mean, of the person who is manually working on the track change, both in the first case and in the case from two days ago, it was a human error and the director of the Maya Train is taking all the necessary measures. They work very well, the truth. Yes. So, in this case you mention, let it be investigated, but one thing has nothing to do with the other.
Yes, President, that is exactly what I hadn't finished concluding. Yes, many millions of pesos are indeed being talked about, but what is important is the safety and life of the thousands of users in this railway maintenance, there is no room for improvisation.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, because you are saying things that I really cannot let pass like that. I mean, you are saying that because of the contracting of a company there are maintenance problems in the Maya Train and that is absolutely false. The Maya Train has its maintenance as any train in the world should have it and there is a permanent review by the Maya Train company. If there is any irregularity of some company that was contracted, well, let it be investigated. But to say so flatly that there is no maintenance and that there are maintenance failures and that puts, well, I really cannot let that observation you are making pass and the director of the Maya Train can come here. In fact, we have planned that they come after the visit of the secretaries, they come in early October to report on the companies that today are administered by the Ministry of National Defense, but they do a permanent work with the supervision of the Railway Transport Agency and there is permanent work in the cases where these problems have occurred. Well, unfortunately it has to do with a person's error and measures are also being taken so that such a situation does not happen again, but there are no maintenance problems.
Well, to make this clear, President, you want to say that all the derailments or situations or incidents that the Maya Train has had have not been due to the quality of the ballast, not due to the infrastructure, not due to the cars, but due to human issues.
Ah, very good. Yes, there was a problem with two trains that was worked on with Alstom, a team of the trains that had a problem and work is being done on it. Some trains that stopped for a moment were reported at the time and work is being done and it is being solved. But the Maya Train works well, it has its maintenance. Let's see if the director of the Maya Train can issue today a statement about all the maintenance work that is carried out. Even the very sad and regrettable case of the Interoceanic, which is the other train, there it was demonstrated both by the expert report made by the Attorney General's Office and the review made by the Railway Transport Agency that it was an excess of speed on a curve, it had nothing to do at any time with the train itself, nor with the trains, nor with the track.
