(4 Jul 2024)
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Mexico City, Mexico – 4 July 2024
1. Incoming Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum walking in with four new members of her future cabinet
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Claudia Sheinbaum, Incoming Mexican President:
"We have worked very well with all four of them and I am very happy to be able to introduce them. Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez, Interior Minister."
3. Close of Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez during announcement
4. Wide of news conference
5. Close of Mario Delgado Carrillo, incoming Mexican Public Education minister
6. Various of Sheinbaum introducing Ariadna Montiel Reyes, current and future minister of welfare
7. Close of Omar García Harfuch, incoming minister for public safety
8. Wide of news conference
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rosa Icela RodrÍguez, incoming Mexican Interior Secretary:
"A high responsibility, such as the one you are entrusting me with now, requires commitment as well. Rest assured that we will work with everyone with efficiency and sensitivity to meet the demands of the citizens."
10. Man filming news briefing on his phone
11. Wide of Rosa Icela Rodríguez during speech
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Omar García Harfuch, incoming Mexican Public Safety Secretary:
"We will work as a team and in absolute coordination with the Secretary of National Defense and the Secretary of the Navy. The instruction of our president-elect is clear: the strengthening of the National Guard, created by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, within the Ministry of National Defense."
13. Various of incoming President Claudia Sheinbaum during a group picture with the four new members of her future cabinet
STORYLINE:
Mexico’s incoming president announced her appointees for top posts Thursday, but hopes for a fresh approach were dashed by the re-appearance of old faces in the new cabinet.
President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum announced that Rosa Icela Rodríguez, who headed outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s failed security strategy, will serve as the next interior secretary.
That is Mexico’s top domestic political post, responsible for handling negotiations with protesters and Mexico’s 32 powerful state governors.
As expected, Omar García Harfuch — who served as Mexico City police chief when Sheinbaum was mayor — was appointed to head Mexico’s increasingly powerless Public Safety Department, the top law-enforcement post.
García Harfuch is credited with bringing down homicides in the capital, though the numbers he claims are disputed.
Sheinbaum has pledged to strip control of the National Guard, Mexico’s main law enforcement agency, from the Public Safety Department and turn the 117,000-member force over to the Army.
García Harfuch will control little other than the country’s prisons when he takes over the job.
But it was the appointment of Rodríguez that turned heads: a very poor public speaker with no experience in campaigns or as an elected official, she breaks the long-standing practice of appointing experienced political pros to the interior ministry post, where negotiating skills are key.
Rodríguez is also closely identified with López Obrador’s "hugs not bullets" strategy of not confronting drug cartels, and militarizing law enforcement.
Sheinbaum has also allowed several other officials who served under López Obrador to remain in the cabinet.
There had been hopes that Sheinbaum, a former scientist known for her love of data-driven policy, would break with López Obrador’s habit of choosing old allies known more for their loyalty than their expertise for cabinet posts.
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