Sheinbaum tells US ambassador to stay in his lane: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

Sheinbaum’s mañanera in 60 seconds 🇺🇸 US ambassador told to respect Mexico’s internal affairs: After Sheinbaum’s speech on Sunday denouncing U.S. intervention in Mexico, Ron Johnson posted on X that the fight against cartels “should unite us, not divide us.” Sheinbaum said she agreed on the need for collaboration, but stressed that ambassadors must stick to bilateral issues and stay out of domestic politics. “Mexico’s affairs correspond to Mexicans,” she said. 🛢️ Pemex-Petrobras deal could be signed this month: Sheinbaum said the Brazilian state oil company brings unique deep-water expertise that could help identify additional reserves in already-exploited fields. She stopped short of endorsing Carlos Slim’s claim that Mexico’s oil production could rise by up to 1 million barrels per day. 🪧 CNTE clash blamed on outside provocateurs: On Monday’s confrontation between teachers union members and police in Mexico City’s historic center, Sheinbaum said she doesn’t believe actual teachers were behind the provocation. Federal-CNTE talks were set to continue Tuesday, with union demands including a 100% pay rise and repeal of the 2019 education reform. Why today’s mañanera matters President Claudia Sheinbaum’s most significant remarks at her Tuesday morning press conference were directed to U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson. Sheinbaum effectively called on the ambassador to stay in his lane after he took to social media and made a thinly veiled criticism of remarks she made during an address at a large rally in Mexico City on Sunday . During her speech at the rally — held to mark the second anniversary of Sheinbaum’s election — the president railed against U.S. interference in Mexican affairs in light of the CIA’s alleged participation in a drug lab raid in Chihuahua in April and U.S. prosecutors’ request for the arrest of Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya and various other current and former officials accused of drug trafficking in league with the Sinaloa Cartel. Also of note at today’s mañanera were Sheinbaum’s remarks about a soon-to-be-signed agreement between Mexico’s state oil company Pemex and its Brazilian counterpart Petrobras. Sheinbaum calls on US ambassador to respect Mexico’s ‘internal affairs’ A reporter noted that there have been “reactions” to the “forceful” and “powerful” speech Sheinbaum delivered on Sunday , including from some of those who were “targets of this message.” He then read out the message that U.S. Ambassador Johnson posted to social media on Monday. Ambassador Johnson and Sheinbaum spar over where US help ends and interference begins On X, Johnson wrote : “The fight against cartels should unite us, not divide us. People on both sides of our border want to live safely and in peace. They deserve freedom from the intimidation, corruption, and fear that the cartels inflict. Every moment spent turning this shared security challenge into a political dispute is a missed opportunity to strengthen our partnership and protect the people we serve.” Sheinbaum said that her government agrees with part of the ambassador’s message “because we have to work together when we have shared problems.” “One of those is obviously violence caused by organized crime, and on that, as we have always said, we seek collaboration and coordination in order to be able to make progress together — they act in their territory and we act in … [our] territory,” she said. Sheinbaum subsequently stressed that “it’s important for ambassadors to stick to the issue of coordination and collaboration.” “Ambassadors have to be respectful of a country’s internal matters,” she said. “Our ambassador in the United States, our ambassador in France, our ambassadors in any place in the world — Australia, India — don’t offer opinions on a country’s political issues because our constitution clearly establishes [the right to] self-determination … and respect and non-intervention, ” Sheinbaum said. “We have to also remember that it’s important for the [U.S.] ambassador to stick to bilateral issues and to respect the internal affairs of our country because Mexico’s affairs correspond to Mexicans,” she said. Petrobras-Pemex agreement could be signed this month A reporter asked the president about billionaire businessman Carlos Slim’s assertion that Mexico could increase its oil production by up to 1 million barrels per day within two to three years thanks to private and public investment in new oil projects. “Would this be possible?” the reporter asked. “We’re going to sign an agreement … with Petrobras,” Sheinbaum responded, referring to the Brazilian state-owned oil company. “Why is this agreement important? Because Petrobras is an expert in exploration and production in deep water. And it’s also an expert in a technique that only they have,” she said, explaining that said technique makes it possible to determine whether there are additional oil reserves “at greater depths” in fields that have already been exploited. “So I hope that this month we’re going to sign the agreement with Petrobras — Petrobras-Pemex — that will help Pemex with exploration and production,” said Sheinbaum. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva floated the idea of a joint venture between Petrobras and Pemex in March , saying that the latter could “get a great deal of help” from the former. Returning to the reporter’s question, Sheinbaum said that she didn’t know whether the agreement between Pemex and Petrobras would allow Mexico to increase daily oil production by 800,000 to 1 million barrels per day, as Slim claimed was possible. “What we have to guarantee is the production of oil for the country — our internal use,” she said. “… There are also environmental considerations,” Sheinbaum added. “That’s why for electricity generation, we’re proposing to increase renewable sources of energy,” she said. Sheinbaum comments on clash in CDMX historic center Sheinbaum said that she didn’t believe teachers were responsible for the “provocation” that led to a clash between members of the CNTE teachers union and police in the historic center of Mexico City on Monday. Comienzan a lanzar cohetones durante la protesta de la CNTE que intenta llegar al Zócalo capitalino. 📹Alejandro Mendoza pic.twitter.com/Al9itXK8fJ — REFORMA (@Reforma) June 1, 2026 “Yesterday I think there was a lot of provocation. The truth is I don’t think they are teachers those who caused the provocation,” she said. Sheinbaum said that more talks between the federal government and the CNTE would take place on Tuesday. “There is dialogue [and] that’s very important,” she said. Teachers affiliated with the CNTE have been protesting in Mexico City , Oaxaca and elsewhere as they seek to pressure the government to meet their demands. Those demands include a 100% pay increase and the repeal of the 2019 education reform as well as the 2007 ISSSTE (State Workers’ Social Security Institute) Law, which changed their pension system and will leave them — they say — considerably worse off in retirement. On Monday, Sheinbaum expressed confidence that progress will be made in talks with the CNTE even as she highlighted that “some” of the protesting teachers’ demands can’t be met for budgetary reasons. By Mexico News Daily chief staff writer Peter Davies ([email protected]) The post Sheinbaum tells US ambassador to stay in his lane: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped appeared first on Mexico News Daily