Almost all Mexicans benefit from the success of the current Morena government, headed by President Claudia Sheinbaum. If it goes poorly, the number of poor, extremely poor, unemployed, and emigrants will increase, many of whom are detained and returned from the United States.
Those who enter the United States illegally have to abandon their spouses and children; the family nucleus, the basis of social and family integration, is shattered.
Mexico’s macroeconomic figures show us that the majority of Mexicans are going backward: from middle class to poor, and from poor to extremely poor.
Poverty is decreasing not because its number is decreasing and the middle class is increasing, but because the majority of those who ceased to be poor have fallen into the extremely poor group. According to the most recent credible and available data, based on figures released by the state agency CONEVAL, the extremely poor increased from 8.7 million in 2018 to 9.1 million. In MORENA’s first four years in power, the number of wealthy people did not increase, not counting government officials, family members, associates, and friends. Instead, 400,000 people fell into the extremely poor category. “There are fewer poor people!” the government officials say, but they manipulate figures to hide the increase in the extremely poor.
The increase in emigration to the United States proves the increasing difficulty of finding a job in Mexico with wages that allow workers to support their families.
Unemployment, based on official data, appears to be almost the same among the working-age population before and after MORENA’s arrival, but although jobs increased numerically, the percentage remains almost the same.
The available government data, some of which has been manipulated and modified to reduce the negative impact, makes it clear that the economy has not improved under MORENA, but rather worsened, primarily due to misguided policies by the Mexican government, not because of the equally misguided policies of its northern neighbor, Donald Trump. Public debt, which stood at $8.8 trillion in 2018, rose to $17.4 trillion in 2024; it almost doubled.
Inflation, despite changes in methodology to present lower figures, did not significantly decrease: from 4.8% in 2018 to 4.1% in 2024.
GDP per capita in 2019 was $10,084; it increased to $13,826 in 2024, but if we subtract accumulated inflation, GDP per capita was lower.
Murders under AMLO’s MORENA government totaled 202,000, more than those under Peña Nieto and far higher than those during Calderón’s administration, which reached 120,000.
An objective conclusion, beyond ideologies and partisanship, based on figures shows that under MORENA governments, the standard of living of the majority of Mexicans, primarily the poor and the middle class, declined.
Source: laprensagrafica
