President Sheinbaum’s first year in office in 12 numbers: Part 2

President Claudia Sheinbaum is present officially successful the 2nd twelvemonth of her six-year term: 366 days down, much than 1,800 inactive to go.

To people the juncture of the archetypal day of her presidency, Mexico News Daily published Part 1 of “President Sheinbaum’s archetypal twelvemonth successful bureau successful 12 numbers” connected Wednesday.

Here is Part 2.

32

This is the fig of national entities successful Mexico, each of which Sheinbaum visited during her archetypal twelvemonth successful office. 

While the president lives successful Mexico City, she travels to la provincia — a word utilized successful Mexico to picture anyplace extracurricular the superior — virtually each weekend.

In this respect, arsenic successful others, Sheinbaum is pursuing successful the footsteps of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who traveled often and wide wrong Mexico during his presidency and erstwhile boasted of having visited each and each 1 of the country’s astir 2,500 municipalities. Also similar AMLO, the presidenta is blessed to get up adjacent and idiosyncratic with her supporters — she’ll buss babies, high-five kids, hug grandmothers.

In September alone, Sheinbaum visited each authorities successful the state connected what she dubbed an “accountability tour,” delivering speeches to update residents connected authorities projects and initiatives successful their section areas.

“I made a decision, I decided to spell to each the states of the republic to study due to the fact that to govern is to beryllium accountable,” she said during her “accountability” code successful Aguascalientes connected Sept. 5.

“You can’t govern acold from the people, you person to govern adjacent to the radical and we person an thought astir however to govern, and we accidental that we govern from the territory,” Sheinbaum said.

While the president lives successful Mexico City, she travels to antithetic areas of the state virtually each weekend. (Senadores Morena/Facebook)

The president’s predominant trips to la provincia assistance her to consolidate her nationwide support, and undoubtedly supply bully optics (just instrumentality a look astatine Sheinbaum’s societal media). Saying your authorities is putting the mediocre archetypal is 1 thing, visiting Mexico’s astir disadvantaged communities and explaining to radical firsthand what factual actions are being taken to marque their lives amended is another.

It is worthy noting that Sheinbaum finds herself successful politically favorable territory successful the bulk of states crossed Mexico. The Morena enactment holds bureau successful 23 of the 32 national entities, portion its ally, the Ecological Green Party of Mexico, governs 1 authorities (San Luis Potosí). The information that much than 70% of Mexico’s states are governed by a enactment that lone came into beingness 11 years agone is thing abbreviated of extraordinary. Can you ideate the aforesaid happening happening successful a state similar the United States oregon Canada?

The ubiquity of Morena’s governmental powerfulness crossed Mexico adds to the spot of Sheinbaum and her government, successful portion by ensuring that law reforms approved by the national Congress are ratified. Such reforms indispensable beryllium ratified by astatine slightest 17 of the authorities legislatures to instrumentality effect.

While she is successful affable territory successful Morena entities, Sheinbaum has spoken astir being good received successful states governed by the National Action Party and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). That’s not astonishing fixed that astatine slightest 7 successful 10 Mexicans crossed the state o.k. of her show arsenic president, according to galore polls.

What they’re saying 

President Sheinbaum: 

“We are ever going to beryllium adjacent to the people, we volition ne'er wantonness you.” 

70 

This is the fig supra which Sheinbaum’s support standing remained passim astir each of her archetypal twelvemonth successful office. 

There is nary uncertainty that Sheinbaum is simply a wildly fashionable president.

Since she took bureau a twelvemonth and a time ago, her support standing has been supra 70% each period but November, erstwhile it was 69%, according to the results of monthly polls conducted by the El Financiero newspaper. For 4 consecutive months betwixt January and April, Sheinbaum’s support standing exceeded 80% successful El Financiero polls. Other surveys person yielded akin results.

So wherefore is Sheinbaum truthful popular?

Sheinbaum’s support standing tops 70% astatine 1-year mark

The 1 happening that stands retired is her government’s proviso of fiscal enactment for Mexican radical — particularly disadvantaged citizens — done its assorted payment programs.

One caller canvass identified “help for the people” arsenic the president’s apical achievement, portion different recovered that 77% of respondents viewed the government’s societal enactment programs successful a affirmative light.

Although homicides person decreased during Sheinbaum’s term, a ample bulk of Mexicans bash not o.k. of the national government’s effect to insecurity, canvass results indicate.

However, it appears that a important fig of radical are inactive prepared to enactment the president and her authorities contempt its perceived shortcomings successful combating insecurity and organized crime.

Beyond currency transfers — derided arsenic vote-buying by immoderate authorities critics  — determination are galore different factors that tin assistance explicate Sheinbaum’s precocious level of popularity. They see the following:

• Sheinbaum is the successor and governmental protégé of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a arguable but wide loved person who built up a loyal pursuing implicit a play of decades.
• She is Mexico’s archetypal pistillate president, a concern that automatically endears her to galore women, and astatine slightest immoderate men.
• Her enactment for double-digit increases to Mexico’s minimum wage.
• Her committedness to improving the lives of Mexico’s women.
• Her government’s absorption of the economy, which is increasing (albeit astatine a humble rate) contempt forecasts that it would declaration successful 2025.
• The existent weakness of absorption parties.
• The cognition that she is an honorable and intelligent pistillate who is committed to serving the radical of Mexico.
• A “rally ’round the flag’ effect amid predominant tariff threats from United States President Donald Trump and speculation that the U.S. could instrumentality subject enactment against Mexican cartels connected Mexican soil.
• Her tireless defence of Mexico’s sovereignty.
• Her quality astatine property conferences each weekday morning, which allows her to acceptable the nationalist docket and gives her a regular level to pass straight with the radical of Mexico.
• Her extended question astir Mexico, and willingness to get up and adjacent with “the people.”

What they’re saying 

Francisco Abundas, a renowned Mexican pollster: 

“The [majority] support of President Claudia Sheinbaum successful August 2025 chiefly depends connected 3 factors: continuity and strengthening of the societal programs, which support a transportation with the bulk [of Mexican people]; a favorable examination with past governments, which reinforces the cognition of comparative efficiency; a idiosyncratic representation of close, honorable and competent leadership, which legitimizes her decisions.”  

Senator Alejando Moreno, nationalist person of the Institutional Revolutionary Party:

“[The national government] has gone truthful acold arsenic to manipulate the colonisation with societal programs that don’t warrant rights oregon lick structural problems, but bash guarantee governmental loyalty.” 

3,145

This is the magnitude successful kilometers of the Mexico-United States border. 

“Poor Mexico, truthful acold from God, truthful adjacent to the United States.”

The celebrated operation is attributed to erstwhile Mexican president Porfirio Díaz, who ruled with an robust fist for much than 3 decades successful the precocious 19th and aboriginal 20th centuries.

Mexico’s proximity to the world’s astir almighty state and largest system has its advantages, but — arsenic the aforesaid operation indicates — it comes with a steadfast dose of challenges. That is surely the lawsuit for the existent occupant of Mexico’s National Palace.

For the past 8 months, Sheinbaum has had to woody with an unpredictable, protectionist, hyperbolic and sometimes belligerent U.S. president whose medication has accused the Mexican authorities of being successful cahoots with cause cartels.

Donald Trump has conveyed a elemental connection to Sheinbaum: Combat the cartels and halt narcotics and migrants from crossing Mexico’s bluish borderline into the United States.

While the connection is simple, achieving those objectives is exceedingly hard — if not impossible.

Trump: ‘Mexico does what we archer them to do’

Still, Trump expects results, and has shown helium is consenting to usage the tools astatine his disposal — particularly tariffs — to get (or astatine slightest effort to get) what helium wants. The menace of U.S. subject enactment against cartels successful Mexico (foreign violent organizations, according to the U.S.) looms arsenic a possibility, arsenic unrealistic arsenic that eventuality appears to some, including the presidenta herself.

Sheinbaum has made immoderate advancement toward achieving the objectives Trump has acceptable for her. Data indicates that the quantity of drugs and migrants entering the U.S. via its 3,145-kilometer-long borderline with Mexico has declined significantly. Under unit from the U.S., the Sheinbaum medication has deployed further troops to the bluish borderline region, sent dozens of cartel figures to look justness successful the U.S., seized ample quantities of narcotics and destroyed much than 1,400 cause labs.

Nevertheless, satisfying Trump connected the cause contented is nary casual feat, possibly impossible, fixed that Americans proceed to dice from cause overdoses and blaming Mexico for the occupation (and China, Venezuela and different countries) is seen arsenic a surefire mode to marque governmental capital.

Sheinbaum has earned praise for the mode successful which she has handled Trump, won immoderate concessions from him and the brace accidental they person a bully relationship. But the information remains that determination are U.S. tariffs connected a scope of Mexican goods, including steel, aluminum and vehicles, that didn’t beryllium earlier the existent U.S. president returned to the White House.

Still, fixed that Trump has besides imposed caller tariffs connected goods from U.S. allies astir the world, it is unfair to apportion blasted to Sheinbaum for the protectionist presumption quo successful intra-North American trade.

In summation to slapping tariffs connected Mexico, the United States’ largest commercialized partner, Trump has repeatedly made the unedifying assertion that Sheinbaum is “afraid” of the cartels, adjacent arsenic his caput of authorities and ambassador successful Mexico person commended her authorities for its information work.

There is disapproval astatine location arsenic well: A caller canvass recovered that a bulk of Mexicans judge that the Sheinbaum medication is not doing a bully occupation managing the narration with the U.S. president.

Attending to the Mexico-United States narration volition beryllium an ongoing and ever-evolving task for Sheinbaum during the adjacent 5 years of her presidency. Next twelvemonth volition beryllium particularly pivotal fixed that the USMCA is up for review.

While commercialized and information person been the cardinal absorption of the bilateral narration implicit the past 12 months, it is important not to hide that determination are a scope of different binational challenges, including ones related to Mexico’s h2o debt, the ongoing screwworm saga and the Tijuana-San Diego sewage crisis.

What they’re saying 

President Sheinbaum:

“We collaborate, we coordinate, we enactment unneurotic [with the United States], but we volition ne'er beryllium subordinated. Mexico is simply a free, sovereign, autarkic state and we don’t judge interventionism successful our country.” 

Marco Rubio, United States Secretary of State:

“We’ve had a large narration with the authorities of Mexico during the 8 months of the Trump presidency. It is the closest information practice we person ever had, possibly with immoderate country, but surely successful the past of U.S.-Mexico relations.” 

Carlos Pérez Ricart, an world who focuses connected arms trafficking, cause argumentation and organized crime:

“This bilateral narration can’t beryllium described arsenic cooperation, but alternatively arsenic extortion.”

“The Mexican authorities is prepared to concede astir thing successful bid to safeguard the renegotiation of the USMCA and sphere the committedness of debased tariffs.”

32,400+

This is the fig of radical arrested for allegedly committing “high-impact” crimes during Sheinbaum’s archetypal twelvemonth successful office. 

On Sept. 9, Federal Security Minister Omar García Harfuch reported that much than 32,400 radical had been arrested since Oct. 1, 2024.

The fig is striking for astatine slightest 2 reasons.

It indicates that an mean of astir 95 radical were arrested for crimes specified arsenic homicide, kidnapping, rape and extortion each and each time implicit the past year. Considering that impunity is inactive considered to beryllium a large occupation successful Mexico, the mean regular fig of arrests and the accumulated fig are extraordinarily high, demonstrating that the national government’s information strategy — which includes enhanced quality and probe practices — is working.

Speaking of her administration’s information strategy successful October 2024, Sheinbaum emphasized “prevention, quality and beingness [of information forces].” (gob.mx)

Secondly, the 32,400 fig underscores the immense standard of the information situation the Sheinbaum medication faces. How galore radical would person to beryllium enactment down bars to genuinely pacify the country?

The precocious fig of arrests implicit the past twelvemonth besides creates a important further situation for Mexico’s precocious renewed judiciary, which volition person to measure the culpability of a immense fig of suspects. The gait of justness transportation successful Mexico is already glacial, successful galore cases. The further load could marque things adjacent worse.

With truthful galore radical being arrested, different contented to see is overcrowding successful Mexico’s notoriously overcrowded jails. Sheinbaum has acknowledged that her authorities is considering gathering caller penitentiaries.

What they’re saying 

Security Minister Omar García Harfuch: 

“The associated enactment of the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of the Navy, the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection, the Federal Attorney General’s Office, the Ministry of the Interior, the National Guard and the National Intelligence Center has made it imaginable to dismantle transgression networks, detain precedence targets, execute judicial orders, and besides interaction the fiscal structures of transgression groups done the [drug] seizures carried out.”

U.S. President Donald Trump: 

“Mexico inactive has not stopped the Cartels who are trying to crook each of North America into a Narco-Trafficking Playground.” 

130,000+

This is the fig of radical officially classified arsenic missing successful Mexico. 

Sheinbaum, similar leaders astir the world, inherited a scope of problems erstwhile she took office.

Mexico’s long-running missing persons situation is 1 of the biggest. The president is determined to marque advancement connected addressing the problem, but disappearances person remained a large occupation during her administration.

In March, as the find of a alleged extermination campy successful the authorities of Jalisco continued to provoke fearfulness successful Mexico, Sheinbaum declared that “attending to the occupation of missing persons” was a “national priority” for her government.

The president subsequently announced six actions against abductions, including the strengthening of the National Search Commission and legislative reform.

Search collectives from Jalisco protesting successful February successful Mexico City, saying the authorities is ignoring their cases contempt Jalisco being the fig 1 authorities successful Mexico for forced disappearances. (Galo Cañas Rodríguez/Cuartoscuro)

But immoderate of the astir important stakeholders successful the program — the families of the missing — are not convinced it is the close mode guardant (see below).

Within the immense missing persons crisis, Sheinbaum inherited the unresolved, 11-year-old Ayotzinapa lawsuit — the disappearance of 43 teachers’ assemblage students successful Guerrero successful September 2024.

Effectively dealing with Mexico’s missing persons situation — including solving unresolved cases, holding abductors to relationship and reducing the incidence of caller cases — volition beryllium a large situation for the president. If she tin efficaciously code the problem, and person the radical of Mexico that she has done so, millions of Mexicans volition convey her, not slightest the nation’s madres buscadoras (searching mothers) and different relatives of the missing.

The nonaccomplishment to bash truthful would taint the Sheinbaum administration, particularly considering that the president has made addressing the missing persons occupation a “national priority.”

What they’re saying 

An unfastened missive to Sheinbaum endorsed by hunt collectives, activists and relatives of victims of abduction and enforced disappearance: 

“The families of disappeared persons saw and listened to your effect successful the look of a disappearances situation that gets worse each day. The connection you marque profoundly concerns america arsenic it reflects a deficiency of consciousness of the organization hunt and probe mechanisms and procedures that already beryllium successful the country.” 

34.3 billion 

This is the magnitude successful US dollars that Mexico received successful overseas nonstop concern (FDI) successful the archetypal six months of 2025. 

Despite concerns astir the judicial reform — and President Trump’s subversion of the USMCA with the implementation of tariffs connected a scope of Mexican goods — FDI successful Mexico deed a grounds precocious successful the January-June play of this year.

This is undoubtedly a triumph for Sheinbaum and her administration, which is aiming to pull overseas investment, boost home manufacturing capableness and trim reliance connected imports.

All 3 of those objectives are portion of the government’s ambitious Plan México economical plan, which was unveiled successful January.

In a societal media station aft the work of the FDI information for the archetypal six months of the year, Sheinbaum asserted that the “Fourth Transformation [economic] exemplary doesn’t conscionable trim poverty, it generates concern arsenic well.”

An particularly affirmative facet of the aforementioned information is that the “new investment” constituent much than tripled betwixt January and June compared to the archetypal six months of 2024.

The national authorities volition beryllium hoping that inclination continues, and that caller projects are launched crossed the country, not conscionable successful areas that person traditionally attracted precocious levels of FDI specified arsenic bluish Mexico and the Bajío region.

A slogan of the Sheinbaum medication is “shared prosperity” — it wants Mexico’s wealthiness (including that derived from overseas investment) to beryllium shared among each Mexicans, nary substance their inheritance oregon wherever successful the state they live.

Continuing to person grounds levels of FDI, and attracting astatine slightest immoderate of that concern to historically disadvantaged parts of Mexico, could spell a agelong mode to helping the authorities execute its “shared prosperity” goal. Conversely, immoderate important slump successful FDI would undermine that initiative, and impact Mexico’s wide economical wellbeing arsenic well.

With Plan México and different initiatives, including information and infrastructure-focused ones, Sheinbaum and her authorities volition beryllium determined to bash everything they tin wrong their power to marque definite that doesn’t hap successful the coming years.

What they’re saying 

Mexico’s national Economy Ministry: 

“Mexico attracted caller investments amounting to US $ 3.149 cardinal [in the archetypal six months of 2025], which is 246% much than successful 2024. … This is the highest maturation successful the past 12 years. It reaffirms the involvement that overseas investors support successful our country, contempt the planetary economical and governmental scenario.”

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])

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