The official version of Thursday that is counted on Friday
President Claudia Sheinbaum released today what her Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco spoke yesterday with Marco Rubio of the US State Department. The star topic: migration and security. The timing, as always, perfect.
In the morning conference this Friday at the National Palace, the president added other pending issues to the list: the screwworm, water and trade. The bilateral agenda looks like a supermarket list.
When a plague becomes a political resource
Here comes the juicy part. Sheinbaum assured that his government supports all states against the screwworm. But then he detailed that only three have specific projects: Sonora, Durango and Coahuila.
“A project was carried out to support livestock farmers in three states; in some cases the resources for this extraordinary support that was given have not been completed”
Journalistic translation: we announce something that should already be working but is not finished yet. The classic.
And now comes the electorally convenient expansion: Tamaulipas wants to enter the program (governed by Morena) and Chihuahua also asked to join (governed by the opposition). Pure coincidence, of course.
Meanwhile, we are still waiting for the real details of that conversation with the United States. Because what is not said in these conferences is usually more revealing than what is.
