President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke about a wide variety of issues at her Thursday morning press conference, including Mexico’s bilateral relationship with the United States and toxic foam that appeared on the streets of a México state municipality earlier this week.

Here is a recap of the president’s June 26 mañanera.

Despite difficulties, Mexico will have a ‘good relationship’ with US, Sheinbaum says

One reporter suggested that the United States, in an act of “synchronized swimming,” is seeking to create hostility in its relationship with Mexico. He was referring to the United States Treasury Department’s accusations that three Mexican financial institutions laundered millions of dollars for drug cartels, and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s description of Mexico as a “foreign adversary.”

Another reporter asked the president whether “resistance” to progress in the bilateral relation stemmed from the United States government itself.

“There will be people who don’t want a good [bilateral] relationship, but they’re going to be disappointed because there will be a good relationship because the United States is economically linked to Mexico and Mexico to the United States,” Sheinbaum responded.

“In addition, there are millions of Mexican families in the United States and millions of United States families in Mexico. In other words, we’re linked economically, culturally [and by] tourism and families,” she said.

“So we have to seek a good relationship, without subordination,” Sheinbaum said.

Hurricane Erick damage census is underway 

Sheinbaum noted that government officials known as “servants of the nation” have begun conducting a census in Oaxaca and Guerrero to assess the damage caused by Hurricane Erick, which made landfall in the former state as a category 3 storm last Thursday.

The census will determine which citizens are eligible for government support.

Sheinbaum said that municipalities close to the border between Oaxaca and Guerrero bore the brunt of the hurricane.