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Juntos I Miércoles 04 de Marzo 2026

March 5, 2026·48 min·3 clips

Children's rights coordinator Juan Martín Pérez calls Congress's rejection of a forced-recruitment crime type 'a betrayal of childhood' — despite a 2011 UN request and 16 years of documentation.

1. Juntos with host Jaime Núñez, Grupo Fórmula, on Wednesday March 4, 2026, covers the electoral reform's delivery to Congress, the Middle East conflict escalation, and several domestic health and social policy stories. 2. Jaime Núñez hosts with co-presenter Gina Trejo Briseño, who anchors agenda delivery, while reporter Maru Rojas covers Congress from inside the Chamber. 3. The central story is President Claudia Sheinbaum's electoral reform bill, which finally reached the Chamber of Deputies at 2:30 pm after days of delay and speculation. 4. Chamber president Kenia López Rabadán formally received the bill from Gobernación's legislative liaison Juan Ramiro Robledo and pledged to publish it immediately in the Gaceta Parlamentaria for all of Mexico to read. 5. The reform proposes amending 11 articles of the Constitution, including reducing party budgets, eliminating party-list plurinominal deputy selection (replaced by direct vote), and capping all INE and electoral tribunal salaries below the president's. 6. Reporter Maru Rojas calls the delivery 'desaseada' (messy), noting that the protocol was altered and the media caught the government attempting to deliver the bill in an unofficial back channel before reverting to the legally required mesa directiva process. 7. PAN coordinator Elias Lisha announced zero PAN votes for the reform, saying the bill deliberately omits the key anti-cartel provision: losing party registration if organized crime financing is demonstrated. 8. With PT and Verde Ecologista also withholding support, Morena faces an impossible arithmetic — three full party caucuses opposing a reform that requires a two-thirds supermajority of 334 of 500 deputies. 9. The committee timeline: commission analysis the week of March 16, possible vote by March 24, then plenary — but Maru Rojas notes the votes simply are not there. 10. In international news, a US Navy submarine torpedoed an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka, killing 80 with dozens missing — described as the first enemy ship sinking by torpedo since World War II. 11. Iran also apparently launched a missile toward Turkey (a NATO member), though analysts believe it may have been an error; no Turkish response was announced. 12. Analyst Fausto Pretelín Muñoz de Cote characterizes the leaders driving the conflict — Netanyahu, Iran's Supreme Leader, and Trump — as extreme nationalists or ultra-religious figures, none of whom he considers morally suited to determine war outcomes. 13. Pretelín warns that multilateral institutions designed to prevent wars are being bypassed, citing his observation at a World Water Forum in Stockholm where NATO funding obligations crowded out international cooperation budgets. 14. The Mexican foreign ministry reports 279 nationals have been evacuated by land from Israel, Jordan, the UAE, Lebanon, and Qatar, with Dubai Airport remaining mostly closed and urging travelers not to go to the terminal without confirmed airline notification. 15. Magistrate Natalia Tellez, an anticorruption judge at the Tribunal Federal de Justicia Administrativa, explains why she believes her eligibility challenge is unconstitutional: the law bars party-affiliated candidates, not citizens who ran in the non-partisan judicial election. 16. On World Obesity Day (March 4), Dr. Marta Kaufer Horwitz argues obesity is a complex disease requiring structural reform, not individual willpower; Mexico's 2026 national dietary guidelines and front-of-package labeling strategy are named as policy tools. 17. She says healthcare providers' stigma toward obese patients actively prevents people from seeking treatment and that compassionate, multidisciplinary care is a precondition for medical effectiveness. 18. Juan Martín Pérez, coordinator of Tejiendo Redes Infancia en América Latina, says Congress's failure to codify forced minor recruitment as a standalone crime betrays victims of 20 years of conflict; a UN committee made this request on March 4, 2011 — 15 years before this broadcast. 19. The show also covers Bobby Pulido — the norteño music 'Golden Boy' — winning the Texas Democratic primary with 68 percent of the vote, and a FIFA-Mexico City security meeting with 99 days to the 2026 World Cup. 20. The episode suits listeners tracking Mexican constitutional politics and organized crime; those seeking lighter content or non-political news will find this episode exceptionally policy-heavy.

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