Mexico seeks multilateral agreement to secure critical mineral supply. Mexico is seeking to promote a multilateral agreement that guarantees access to critical minerals necessary for its industrial development and energy transition, affirmed this Thursday the Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, who defended the country's participation in various international forums on the matter. The official explained that the Mexican government has intensified its presence in negotiations and international cooperation spaces to ensure the future supply of these strategic resources. "Mexico has been participating in the issue of critical minerals in many different forums and with very different countries," Ebrard noted. Ebrard detailed that the country was recently invited by the United States to join a working group with several nations to advance a common proposal. According to the secretary, the central objective is to avoid being left out of global decisions in a context of geopolitical competition for strategic raw materials. In turn, the director of the Mexican Geological Survey, Flor MarÃa de Harp IturribarrÃa, explained that these resources are considered strategic due to their economic importance and the risk of supply disruption. "Critical minerals have an international definition, they are those minerals that are important for a country's economy (...) and critical ones have the characteristic that it is likely that the supply will be disrupted or interrupted," she pointed out. She indicated that the condition varies between countries and that Mexico is totally dependent on some of them. The Mexican government maintains that its objective is to actively participate in the definition of international rules on critical minerals to defend its industrial and energy interests in a global scenario in transformation.
"We do not have, as I said yesterday, nothing from Mexico, in that they can be completely sure," the head of state affirmed. Sheinbaum responded this way to the president of the Community of Madrid, who equated Mexico with Cuba and Venezuela in a video aired during an event organized at Mar-a-Lago, the private residence of US President Donald Trump in Florida. The Spanish regional president wished that "soon Cuba, Nicaragua and other countries, like Mexico, as has happened with Argentina, break the same chains, recover their freedom and put an end to the narco-states that the ultra-left dictators are implanting wherever they can, or are allowed to." After these words, the Mexican head of state dismissed the "narco-state" accusation as "propaganda," while emphasizing that the country is not a "copy" of any other, and denied that there was censorship by the authorities. Sheinbaum defended that in Mexico "the people's conscience prevails" and the defense of their rights, so it has a different vision of the world, which "from the conservatism outside it is very difficult to understand," she added. The Mexican president reclaimed the "greatness" of the country's history and the political model of her government known as the Fourth Transformation (4T), a vision "born of the people, and no one else." Finally, she emphasized the decrease in homicides, which since September 2024 have fallen by "42%" or the recent arrest of the mayor of Tequila (Jalisco, west), from her same party, so she added that Ayuso knows what she said is not true.
"Nothing from Mexico": Sheinbaum on Texas airspace closure. After it was announced on Tuesday that the airspace in Texas would be closed for a period of 10 days, a measure that was canceled hours later, President Claudia Sheinbaum was questioned about the issue this Thursday during her morning conference. The announcement generated different versions, including the alleged presence of drones linked to Mexican cartels and another that indicated that a balloon would have been confused with a threat. In any case, they have to give the official explanation, Sheinbaum indicated that in some communications, cartels were mentioned but there was no direct reference to Mexico.
