The President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) said today, Sunday, August 18, that in his government 100 thousand Mexicans emerge from poverty every month.
From Monterrey, Nuevo León, AMLO carried out a supervision of the program ‘Young People Building the Future’, where he said that during the six-year terms of Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto, 100 thousand new poor people were registered every month: “The number of poor people grew by 100 thousand every month..
In contrast, he stressed that during his six-year term Every month 100 thousand people are lifted out of povertyas noted by economist Gerardo Esquivel in a column for the newspaper Milenio.
“Even if conservatives don’t like to hear it: in two six-year terms, with Calderón and Peña, every month 100,000 people entered poverty, every month the number of poor people grew by 100,000 people; with us, every month 100,000 people leave poverty. That is the difference.”
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In this sense, López Obrador claimed to have lifted people out of poverty. more than five million people During his presidential term, he said that the domestic market is strengthened if salaries are good and if people have the means to buy what they need.
In this regard, the president insisted that economic policy in which benefits start “from the bottom” does work.
He stressed that with the increase in wages and employment, Mexico is second in the world in low unemployment levels; In addition, he assured that the country has maintained the macroeconomic equilibrium and there is order in the management of public finances.
For her part, President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum agreed that first we must attend to “those who have the least and those who have suffered the most” so that things go well for all of Mexico, since the objective of the federal government is the well-being and “happiness of the people.”
Claudia Sheinbaum, President-elect of Mexico, and AMLO (Courtesy)
AMLO boasts that for the first time in 50 years the Mexican peso has not been devalued
AMLO boasted that For the first time in 50 years the Mexican peso has not been devalued the level he had when he began his six-year term.
He noted that from the government of Luis Echeverría to that of Enrique Peña Nieto, the Mexican currency suffered several consecutive devaluations, term after term.
However, he pointed out that during his six-year term not only was there no devaluation, but the weight was strengthened.
“I will give you a fact: since Echeverría, López Portillo, Miguel de la Madrid, Salinas, Zedillo, Fox, Calderón, Peña Nieto, for more than 50 years, year after year, six-year term after six-year term, the peso was devalued; in this six-year term, no: for the first time in 50 years the peso was strengthened.”
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He explained that his economic policy helps everyone, as he indicated that things have gone well for the majority of Mexicans and that “those at the top have also benefited.”
In this regard, he stated that merchants and businessmen achieved record profits in 2023 alone with 270 billion pesos.
2024-08-18 23:58:02