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Weekly Report - 21 August 2025 (WR-25-33)
MEXICO: Sheinbaum hails poverty reduction
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has hailed as “historic” the latest poverty figures, released by the national statistics institute (Inegi) on 13 August. The figures showed that 13.4m people were lifted out of poverty between 2018 and 2024, the years that her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was in office – a decrease of some 26%. Sheinbaum attributed this drop to policies such as the increase in minimum wage, implementation of social welfare programmes, and public and private investment. The figures are a boost for the political project that López Obrador spearheaded, the Fourth Transformation, or 4T, and of which Sheinbaum is now the torchbearer.
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