EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was in Juarez on Friday, speaking at length about her administration’s social welfare programs.
She said 13.5 million Mexicans are no longer living in poverty since 2018 when her MORENA Party won the presidency through her predecessor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, as well as a majority in the congress.
She attributed that to extensive social spending that includes welfare payments for seniors and the disabled, scholarships, subsidies and aggressive increases to the minimum wage.
“We have a maxim, ‘for the good of all, the poor come first,’” Sheinbaum said. “We believe in trickle up, instead of trickle up so the economy flourishes. […] People’s wages go further; if they have more, they buy more and that means more productivity and a boost to the economy.”
Sheinbaum on Sept. 1 gave a constitutionally required state of the nation report to the Mexican congress. She said she is traveling to each state so people there know what her administration has done there.
Wearing a long black dress with flowers, the president of Mexico told thousands of residents gathered at Benito Juarez stadium that Chihuahua will be getting improved highways linking the state to Sonora. One runs from Nuevo Casas Grandes to Bavispe, the other from Chihuahua City to the coastal city of Guaymas.
There will also be water district improvements so less of the resource is used for irrigation and more is available for human consumption in cities.
She also gave a nod to Mexican immigrants in the United States.
“The Mexican men and Mexican women who work in the U.S. not only support their families in Mexico, but they also support the U.S. economy,” Sheinbaum said. “The United States would not be what it is without the Mexicans who work on the other side of the border.”
She did not address public safety issues in her 35-minute speech and left the city right away for a similar engagement in Baja California.
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