Overview

• Speaking at a Zapopan event on September 28, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico is at its lowest poverty level on record.
• She stated that 13.5 million people left poverty between 2018 and 2024, attributing the shift to policies launched under Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
• On a tour stop in Colima, she said more than 115,000 residents in the state have exited poverty and highlighted ongoing federal social supports there.
• She argued that increases to the minimum wage—along with other measures—underpinned the gains, describing wages as up 135% with inflation contained and the peso stable.
• During the Colima visit, she also pointed to planned economic and health investments, including a Manzanillo port expansion and hospital projects.