On March 6, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum convened a meeting with business leaders to strategize against potential U.S. tariffs. While uncertain about a positive outcome from her call with President Trump, she successfully delayed tariffs for a month. The following week, a call for national unity resulted in a massive public demonstration in Mexico City, with around 350,000 citizens supporting Sheinbaum. This event transformed into a hopeful festival celebrating Mexican sovereignty, showcasing widespread public enthusiasm for the president's leadership in the face of external challenges.
"We are here to support our president and of course the whole country," Anaí Pérez Arellanes, artistic director of a folkloric Indigenous dance troupe from Pochutla, Oaxaca, told Truthout.
Sheinbaum would later confess that the meeting was set up to share what her government was planning on doing should her phone call with Trump...
Francisco Cervantes Díaz, president of Mexico's Business Coordinating Council, came out of the gathering expressing strong support for the Mexican president, saying he would close ranks...
The public mobilization in Mexico City, billed as an opportunity for the president to share her plans... turned into a demonstration and "festival" in defense of Mexican sovereignty.
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