Overview
- The PAN published a 111-point “project of nation” last week that proposes selling the Dos Bocas refinery, building a high-security mega-prison and restoring Seguro Popular-style health programs.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum used Monday’s mañanera to reject the plan as a return to neoliberal corruption and privilege and to cast the debate as a choice between two opposing national projects.
- Sheinbaum warned that selling Dos Bocas would jeopardize Mexico’s ability to secure gasoline and diesel supplies and compared the proposal to 1990s privatizations that concentrated wealth.
- The president criticized the mega-prison idea as a punitive approach that ignores root causes of crime and raised concerns about civil liberties and democratic rights under maximum-security models.
- The clash is primarily political positioning ahead of the 2027 midterms, with media coverage largely following the president’s framing while the PAN presents its package as its electoral platform.