Claudia Sheinbaum condemned that the right, during the six-year term of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, criticized the efforts of the Morenista leader to get closer to youth and claimed that the fight against insecurity is achieved with a transversal strategy.
Mexico City, November 7 (However).- The President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo reiterated this Friday that his Government will prioritize attention to causes of violenceafter it became known that the murderer of Carlos Manzo, Mayor of Uruapan completed last Saturday at a public event, it was a young of just 17 years. The president assured that her Government will do everything necessary to ensure that no young person approaches the delinquency.
“That is why the security strategy is not only the presence of the security forces, strengthening of the prosecutor’s offices, arrests, it is not only that. It necessarily has to have a content of attention to the causes, no Mexican, well, no one wants young people to get close to criminal groups. There were too many years, 36 years of abandonment of young people. A policy of progress in education and attention to young people was barely recovered for six years,” explained the president.
From his press conference at the National Palace, Sheinbaum Pardo maintained that the objective is for young people to have a life option other than crime and stressed that this will be sought with the Michoacán Plan for Peace and Justice.
“We must continue working on it every day, that is why it is the Michoacán plan for Peace and Justice, because it is not only the presence, I repeat, of the federal forces or the arrests, or the strength of the prosecutor’s offices; that the judges do their job so that there are arrests of people who allegedly belong to criminal groups, and that they have their trials, but the attention to the cases,” he reflected.”he asserted.
The president stressed that this change will only occur with the promotion of culture, sports and the arts. He also said the security strategy does not leave aside the presence of security forces in the territories.
“Our objective is through culture, sports and education; and a different vision of young people, the possibility of giving them all the options so that they do not have organized crime as a life option. A security strategy has to have the formal presence of the police, the National Guard, the federal forces if necessary […]but you have to pay attention to the causes. Embrace the young people,” Claudia Sheinbaum insisted.
The Head of the federal Executive condemned that the right, during the six-year term of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, criticized the efforts of the Morenista leader to get closer to youth and claimed that the fight against insecurity is achieved with a transversal strategy, in which prosecutors, judges and authorities participate.
“The right criticized a lot of this ‘hugs, not bullets’ thing, because they said it was an embrace of crime. False, no one ever raised that. The issue is that we have to get closer to the young people they called ‘NEETs’. No. We have to do everything in our power so that no young people get close to a criminal group, that is our vision. […] There have to be more schools, there has to be more attention, there has to be more culture, there has to be more sport, so that young people feel cared for and do not see in a delinquent group an option that in reality seems to give them resources and in the end is an option of death for all of them,” he concluded.
The right did not like “hugs, not bullets” because they said they were hugs for crime and it is FALSE.
The point is that you have to approach young people, not call them NEETs as they did in a derogatory way. pic.twitter.com/AZO2VbbxOy
— Beatriz (@bethcastilloo) November 7, 2025
A 17-year-old young man murdered Carlos Manzo
Yesterday, the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) of Michoacán reported that it confirmed the identity of the perpetrator of the murder of the Mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo: a 17-year-old resident of the municipality of Paracho, Víctor Manuel Ubaldo Vidales. The authorities also stressed that “more than two people” participated in the homicide and that it is related “to organized crime groups.”
“On the afternoon of November 5, the body of the perpetrator of this homicide was identified and claimed. He is Víctor Manuel Ubaldo Vidales, 17 years old, originally from and resident of the municipality of Paracho, Michoacán,” reported the entity’s Prosecutor, Carlos Torres Piña, in a video published on social networks.
“Víctor Manuel’s family recognized that he was absent from home a week before the events. His identification allows us to continue advancing in this investigation, in its context and possible more participants. It is important to reiterate that the expert opinions of the body, confirming the hypothesis of material authorship, as well as his addictions to methamphetamine, information ratified by his relatives,” he added.
Víctor Manuel’s body was handed over to his relatives for burial.
In addition, the Prosecutor of Michoacán confirmed that, through intelligence work, “more than two people participated in the murder of Carlos Manzo” and reiterated that the homicide “is related to organized crime groups”, in particular the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).