▲ The president met with indigenous and Afromexican communities in Amealco, Querétaro. PHOTO PRESIDENCYPHOTO PRESIDENCY
Ricardo Montoya
Correspondent
La Jornada newspaper
Monday, August 4, 2025, p. 3
Amealco de Bonfil, Qro., President Claudia Sheinbaum said The fourth transformation has recovered the dignity of the people of Mexico
after negotiations with the Donald Trump government that pause the application of national export tariffs for 90 days.
When the president sits to talk to any other president of the world, including that of the United States, there is a force that gives us the value, delivery and recognition; It is a unique force, it is called the town of Mexico
He added in a community assembly of the Contribution Fund for Social Infrastructure for Indigenous and Aphromexican Peoples and Communities (Faispiam) held in Amealco de Bonfil.
In the meeting was not Governor Mauricio Kuri, but the Secretaries of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, and of Welfare, Ariadna Montiel Reyes. The latter referred to the conversations with Trump and said that the president “has acted with great dignity, always putting Mexico in the place he deserves and deserved for a long time.”
Before 600 representatives of indigenous communities of the State of Querétaro, the president pointed out that thanks to the struggle and resistance of the original and Afro -descendant peoples and the transformation movement, for the first time, these social sectors have been recognized by the Constitution.
Sheinbaum stressed that the budget is not only divided between the Federation, governments of the states and municipalities, but also between indigenous and Afromexican communities, which receive resources directly, without intermediaries, and apply it based on their uses and customs.
He pointed out that after almost seven years of morenista governments, 11 million Mexicans left poverty and inequalities were reduced, because instead of governing for those above, is governed for the least
.
Similarly, he said that due to the reform of the Judiciary, an indigenous, Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, for the first time he will lead the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation and recalled that he was elected for more than 6 million votes.
He stressed that the resource of the people is sacred and is returned in works and support, but it is not for the rulers; This, after the controversy over the trips of Morenist politicians.
At the end of their message, activists shouted slogans and extended a blanket with the legend Not the Batan
in reference to a state government project to extract water from a dam located in the municipality of Corregidora for human consumption after submitting it to a purification process.
