
“A Personal Sheinbaum Presidential Twist”
Mexico City, Oct 2 (EFE).- By María Julia Castañeda
Mexico’s newly inaugurated President Claudia Sheinbaum used her first-morning conference on Wednesday to define her “distinctive” communication style compared to that of her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and some priorities for the start of her term, promising to be conciliatory and add “personal twist.”

“The people’s morning (conference)” (La mañanera del pueblo), a legacy of former President López Obrador (2018-2024), began at 7:30 a.m. local time after a meeting of Sheinbaum’s security cabinet.
A few hours after taking office as Mexico’s first female president, she dedicated her first message to the media to the massacre of more than 300 students on October 2, 1968, which she described as a personal “obligation” as a “daughter of ’68.”

“I was only 6 years old but, for our family, it was something we lived personally,” she said, noting that her mother, Annie Pardo, was part of the student movement as a teacher at the National Polytechnic Institute.
Sheinbaum then described López Obrador’s victory in the 2018 elections as a “triumph of this movement,” which “recovered justice and rights” for the people of Mexico.
The Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Ica Rodríguez, then read a public apology “on behalf of the Mexican state to all the relatives who lost someone on October 2.”
And the legal advisor to the president, Ernestina Godoy, presented the first decree of Sheinbaum’s government, published Wednesday in the Federal Official Gazette, which recognized the event as a “crime against humanity.”
Sheinbaum also commented on her stance on diplomatic relations with Spain, calling on the Spanish Crown to “reconsider” López Obrador’s demand for a public apology for the conquest of the Americas 500 years ago.

“Special” communication style
Sheinbaum indicated that she would continue to have guests at her morning conference, where she would speak on specific issues of her administration from Monday to Friday and answer questions from the press at the end, just like her predecessor, who held more than 1,400 of these “transparency” exercises.
But Sheinbaum said the “mañaneras” would now be “developed in a special manner”, with new sections for each day of the week.
On Mondays, there will be a “healthy living” segment to raise awareness of health and nutrition issues, and on Tuesdays, there will be a section on “Mexican humanism and historical memory”.
Wednesdays will feature a “lie detector” to combat “fake news,” Thursdays will be dedicated to “women in history,” and Fridays to issues that “make us proud to be Mexicans,” Sheinbaum said.

Transformation with “personal style
During the question and answer session, Sheinbaum responded to a letter from former opposition candidate Xochitl Gálvez, who on Tuesday asked her to put an end to the “polarization” in the country.
“There is a large majority that said that they want the transformation to continue, with our own personal style, of course, and with the accent that we’re going to put on it, but of course, the transformation will continue and we will achieve peace and security in Mexico,” Sheinbaum said.
The president also reiterated her support for the recently approved judicial reform to elect judges by popular vote and called on judicial workers to end their strike.
With questions from six journalists selected by the president, Sheinbaum’s first “mañanera” conference lasted just under an hour and a half, unlike López Obrador’s conferences, which lasted up to three hours during his last year in office. EFE
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