As the first woman president in Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo reaffirmed that the country is on the right path, During his message for his first year of government, he also stressed that power is not to enrich himself.
In front of thousands of people in the Zocalo of Mexico City He stressed that “who betrays the people faces justice”, Amid the dismantling of a fuel smuggling network between high controls in the Secretariat of the Navy.
“In this new Mexico honesty is no exception, it is the rule, and who betrays the people, who steals the people, faces justice. Power is not to enrich yourself, it is to serve with humility, public resources are sacred And they are returned to the people in rights, in well -being and strategic works programs, ”said Sheinbaum.
In addition, he stressed that the country lives a historical moment, since all women arrived in the government and travels along the path of social justice, dignity and the guarantee of social rights, freedom, democracy and sovereignty.
“Honesty is no exception, it is the rule. Who betrays the people faces justice,” he insisted, a message that sought to strengthen the fight against corruption, One of the precepts of Morena and its founder, former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
However, its management has been touched by two recent scandals. The first because relatives of the former Secretary of the Navy are involved in a millionaire plot of fuel smuggling and tax evasion. The second, for the capture of Hernán Bermúdez, a former police chief with links with organized crime, who was a man very close to the former Secretary of the Interior of López Obrador, the today official senator Adam Adam Augusto López.
Despite this, the president did not delve into these issues and limited himself to remembering that in 2008 poverty reached 45 % of the Mexican population and stressed that by this 2025 this index has been reduced to 29 %.
He stressed that from 2018 to 2024 about 13.5 million people left poverty.
“We have to continue working so that no Mexican lives in poverty, but I am sure of something, we are on the right path. This feat is already written in national history and even if they want, they will not be able to erase it either the hate campaigns, neither the lie nor the slander. It is an irrefutable fact,” he said.
Sheinbaum said that, in the “neoliberalism” stage that the country lived between 1982 and 2018, Mexico became one of the most unequal countries in the world.
“Now we are the second least unequal country on the continent only after Canada,” he said.
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