“That is why when someone who does not have popular support is looking abroad for support to come and intervene in Mexico we tell them: Mexico is a free, independent and sovereign country, we are no one’s colony, we are no one’s protectorate!”, he stated during his visit to the Center of Tabasco, where he announced the construction of a processing plant for Wellbeing Chocolate.
In different states, as well as in Mexico City, people demonstrated against insecurity in the country and to demand a change in the strategy carried out by the federal government, following the murder of Carlos Manzo, mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, shot dead at a public event for the Day of the Dead on November 1.
The president affirmed that the high approval of her management reflected in surveys – such as the one carried out by El País at the end of the first year of her mandate, which showed the positive opinion of 78% of the people – is due to the fact that she follows the principle carried out by her predecessor, former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of running a government “close to the people.”
“That is why there is so much approval, because there is no divorce between the people and the government, we are one, we will never separate ourselves from the people of Mexico and when there are governments close to the people, when the government responds to its people, there is no force that can stop us, we are invincible, the people and the government are invincible,” said Sheinbaum.
A day before, the president criticized the low presence of young people in the march held in the capital and spoke out to reject violence in the mobilization.
