Sheinbaum celebrates record formal sector employment: Wednesday’s mañanera recapped

World Cup-related tourism, occupation instauration and the government’s information strategy were among the topics President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir astatine her Wednesday greeting property conference.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s Nov. 12 mañanera.

Government-endorsed ‘tourist routes’ to assistance World Cup visitors observe Mexico

A newsman asked the president whether the authorities has immoderate program to promote 2026 FIFA World Cup tourists to bash activities successful Mexico beyond watching matches astatine the stadiums successful Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey.

He specifically cited visiting the Teotihuacán archaeological tract successful México authorities and eating barbacoa successful Hidalgo arsenic examples of activities the authorities could beforehand to foreigners who travel to Mexico for the World Cup adjacent June and July.

Sheinbaum responded that the authorities has developed “tourist routes linked to the accomplishment of tourists for the World Cup.”

The antithetic routes volition beryllium presented adjacent week oregon the week after, she said.

Sheinbaum didn’t supply a large woody of accusation astir the World Cup “tourist routes,” but confirmed that a travel connected the Maya Train railroad — which runs done the states of Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, Quintana Roo and Chiapas — is portion of astatine slightest 1 of them.

She besides said that Pueblos Mágicos (Magical Towns) are included connected the routes.

“There are respective activities that we’re going to present,” Sheinbaum said, referring to the tourer routes and different World Cup-related initiatives.

Did Mexico assistance FIFA a afloat taxation interruption for the World Cup?

During her greeting property league connected Monday, the president said that 5.5 cardinal shot fans volition travel to Mexico for the World Cup, a 48-team lawsuit successful which matches volition besides beryllium played successful the United States and Canada.

“[It volition be] a precise peculiar clip with a precise important economical spillover,” she said.

Number of workers successful ceremonial assemblage jobs reaches grounds high 

Referring to information published connected Monday by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), Sheinbaum noted that the fig of radical successful ceremonial assemblage jobs accrued by 217,491 successful October.

She besides noted that the full fig of radical successful IMSS-affiliated ceremonial assemblage jobs accrued to a grounds precocious of conscionable nether 22.79 cardinal astatine the extremity of October.

“It’s the highest fig ever recorded,” Sheinbaum said.

“… We’ve experienced a analyzable twelvemonth due to the fact that of the [U.S.] tariffs, owed to the planetary situation, but adjacent so, the peso contiguous is astatine … 18.29 [to the US dollar] … and determination is occupation creation. It means we’re doing well,” she said.

Just nether 551,000 IMSS-affiliated ceremonial assemblage jobs person been created truthful acold this year, a fig that lags the gait astatine which specified jobs were added successful the archetypal 10 months of 2023 and 2024.

Still, the instauration of much than fractional a cardinal ceremonial assemblage jobs during a play successful which the system was hardly growing, and adjacent contracting successful definite periods, is simply a nett positive.

The nationalist unemployment rate, astatine 3%, remains low, though it has trended up this year.

Meanwhile, the percent of workers employed successful Mexico’s immense informal assemblage remains stubbornly precocious astatine conscionable nether 55% successful September, according to the nationalist statistic bureau INEGI.

The National Guard is simply a ‘great institution,’ says Sheinbaum

A newsman asked the president her sentiment astir an nonfiction published by The Economist connected Monday nether the header “Mexico has go a little deadly spot nether Claudia Sheinbaum.”

The Economist acknowledges that murders person declined since Sheinbaum took office, but besides states that “there is inactive an tremendous magnitude to bash successful a state profoundly successful hock to gangsters.”

National Defense Minister Ricardo Trevilla Trejo addressing members of Mexico’s National Guard. (@OHarfuch/X)

Instead of giving a nonstop effect to the reporter’s question, Sheinbaum took the accidental to talk astir her government’s attack to nationalist security.

“The National Guard is an instauration that is being strengthened,” she said, referencing 1 of the 4 halfway tenets of the government’s information strategy.

“It’s antithetic from what the Federal Police was. It’s a caller instauration formed by president López Obrador, and which has to beryllium strengthened. It’s a large institution, it is highly regarded by the radical of Mexico, but it has to proceed improving,” Sheinbaum said.

The president besides spoke astir her government’s committedness to improving quality and investigative practices, addressing the basal causes of crime, reducing impunity, and strengthening nationalist institutions.

Near the extremity of its article, The Economist noted that “on November 3rd NBC News reported that the United States is drafting up plans for operations wrong Mexico to people pack leaders.”

“Such sabre-rattling creates tensions, but whitethorn besides springiness Ms Sheinbaum screen to beryllium bold,” the work wrote, adding:

“No magnitude of boldness volition rebuild Mexico’s hollowed-out information institutions and interruption the gangs’ grip during the azygous six-year word that the constitution affords Ms Sheinbaum. More implicit occurrence volition beryllium for her successor.”

That successor, The Economist suggested, could beryllium existent Federal Security Minister Omar García Harfuch.

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