EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will be in Juarez on Friday to brief residents about work in her first year in office, local officials said.
Sheinbaum has scheduled a 1:30 p.m. rally at the Juarez Monument Park, which is where she held one of her largest rallies while running for office in 2024.
“It’s always news when the president visits the border or anywhere else in the country. We expect she will share regional information and maybe make a couple of important announcements,” Chihuahua Secretary of Government Santiago de la Pena told reporters on Wednesday.
He said the Mexican government funded a new public hospital in Juarez late last year but it requires maintenance and more hospitals are needed.
After what is expected to be a very short visit to Juarez at the conclusion of her daily press conference in Mexico City, Sheinbaum will travel to Mexicali in Baja California state. She will spend the weekend visiting Mexican Pacific Coast cities including Mazatlan, which mostly has been spared by a drug war raging in the Sinaloa state capital of Culiacan.
“We’ve had many mass events in Mazatlan and in Culiacan itself and we do have a propitious environment so we can go,” Sheinbaum said in her news conference broadcast on social media. “We will always support the residents of Culiacan and all of Sinaloa. We will help them build, little by little, more (public) safety and more peace.”
ProVideo in Juarez, Mexico, contributed to this report.
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