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Sheinbaum Draws 600,000 to Zócalo Rally Marking Seven Years of Mexico’s 4T

She framed the turnout as a youth‑focused endorsement that reinforces her control of the movement.

Overview

  • Centering young voters, she touted universal high‑school scholarships, the Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro program with about 3.5 million beneficiaries, and plans for 350,000 new university places as a youth contingent branded itself the “real Gen Z.”
  • After meeting President Donald Trump a day earlier, she voiced confidence the USMCA will hold and cited a bilateral security understanding built on sovereignty, shared responsibility and collaboration without subordination.
  • She highlighted policy claims including the recovery of Pemex and CFE, a 13% minimum wage increase slated for 2026, 551,000 formal jobs created this year, a strong peso, and a 34% drop in homicides since 2018.
  • She condemned what she called funded smear campaigns and “virtual realities” on social media, insisting conservative alliances at home and abroad “will not defeat the people of Mexico nor their President.”
  • The event doubled as a unity show with cabinet members, governors and leaders such as Ricardo Monreal and Adán Augusto López up front, alongside visible union contingents from the teachers’ union, the petroleum union and the CROC.