MEXICO CITY, November 8, 2025 (EFE).– The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaumrevealed today, Saturday, that only a dozen people are protecting their safety, “without paraphernalia.”
Besides, the president contrasted that in previous governments, thousands of agents of the Presidential General Staff (EMP)a special security body, took care of the President of the country in turn.
The late mayor Carlos Manzo had at least 14 bodyguards
Claudia Sheinbaum He has fewer bodyguards than the extinct one Mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo Rodríguezshot dead on Saturday, November 1, when he inaugurated a crowded celebration of the Day of the Dead.
Five days ago, Monday, November 3, Omar García HarfuchSecretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) of Mexico, reported that the Federation gave Carlos Manzo, two armored vehicles and 14 elements of the National Guard as custodians, who joined the municipal police who were his bodyguards.
The revelation ofand Claudia Sheinbaum occurs after the Tuesday, November 4 passed a man, officially identified as Uriel Rivera Martínezin an apparent state of intoxication, stood behind her, tried to kiss her neck and touched her breasts while trying to hug her when she was walking through the center of this capital of the country and greeting some citizens.
🚨 Subject goes beyond himself with Claudia Sheinbaum
This Tuesday morning, Claudia Sheinbaum left the National Palace on foot. Many took the opportunity to take a selfie, greet her or hug her; However, an individual kissed her without her consent and touched her… pic.twitter.com/UwE6vqdktp
— Diario de Yucatán (@DiariodeYucatan) November 4, 2025
Claudia Sheinbaum’s bodyguards
“Antes lthe presidents they had a Presidential General Staff, they took care of them 8,000 elite soldiers. Now we have ten companions and companionso they go with us, of the Presidential Assistant“, the president contrasted today.
“All of the Staff they returned to Army to take care of the people and the people’s resources are returned to the people,” added Claudia Sheinbaum at an event in Nayarita state in the northwest of the country.
“We don’t go around with paraphernalia“We did not come to the government to serve us,” said the Chairwoman during the inauguration of the Tepic-Compostela highwayabout 26 kilometers.
In Nayarit we inaugurated the Tepic-Compostela highway, an extraordinary work that will benefit 490 thousand inhabitants; improves connectivity and guarantees the development of the region.
The people’s resources return to the people because we do not allow corruption. pic.twitter.com/6rXEppb0XZ
— Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@Claudiashein) November 9, 2025
In 2018, after his electoral victory, the then president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024) rejected the protection and security of the Presidential General Staff (EMP)an elite military body that has guarded the President of Mexico for more than a century.
The last five presidents protected by the EMP it was the PRI Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-1994) y Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon (1994-2000), the PAN members Vicente Fox Quezada (2000-2006) and Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (2006-2012) and the PRI Enrique Pena Nieto (2012-2018).
He is criminally prosecuted for harassing the president
Today Saturday, a jcontrol judgeHe linked to criminal proceedings Uriel Rivera for the crime of sexual abuse against Claudia Sheinbaum.
A Uriel Rivera They arrested him on the same Tuesday, November 4, but another sexual assault.
After he attacked the president, several agents began to monitor him and a young woman approached them and reported Rivera for sexual harassment because, she said, he also touched her inappropriately on a central street in the metropolis.