Sheinbaum’s advice for families hit by soda tax hike? Drink less: Wednesday’s mañanera recapped

At her Wednesday greeting property conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir the higher levy connected brushed drinks that is acceptable to instrumentality effect adjacent twelvemonth and the value of her government’s obstruction projects.

She besides acknowledged that the decease toll from flooding successful eastbound and cardinal Mexico has risen.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s Oct. 22 mañanera.

Sheinbaum: ‘Instead of buying 30 cans of soda a month, bargain 29’

Asked astir the taxes and fees that are acceptable to summation successful 2026, Sheinbaum said that the lone alteration that volition impact Mexicans is the higher levy connected brushed drinks.

Her assertion wasn’t wholly close due to the fact that levies connected immoderate different products, including baccy and convulsive video games, are acceptable to summation arsenic well, pending support by the Senate.

Sheinbaum said that the government’s proposal to nullify the interaction of the higher levy connected soda is for consumers of brushed drinks to somewhat trim their intake.

“Instead of buying 30 cans of soda a month, bargain 29,” she said.

“It volition assistance your wellness and you won’t wage much taxes,” Sheinbaum said.

The taxation connected brushed drinks is slated to summation to 3.08 pesos per liter adjacent year, an 88% summation compared to the existent complaint of 1.64 pesos per liter.

New obstruction projects ‘very important’ for Mexico’s competitiveness 

After the manager of Mexico’s Rail Transport Regulatory Agency, Andrés Lajous, provided an update connected assorted railroad projects, a newsman asked the president “what role” the caller railroads volition play successful boosting Mexico’s competitiveness and supporting the government’s Plan México economical initiative.

Andrés Lajous Loaeza said connected Wednesday that the Mexico City-Pachuca line, which aims to conscionable a regular request of 100,000 passengers, volition person its archetypal trains successful the 4th fourth of 2026. (Graciela López/Cuartoscuro)

A “very important” one, Sheinbaum responded.

“The transport of freight and passengers by bid is thing that is happening successful the full world,” she added.

Sheinbaum cited China arsenic 1 illustration of a state that has invested successful the improvement of its obstruction network.

In Mexico, the authorities is “recovering the rider trains,” the president said aft railing against erstwhile president Ernesto Zedillo (1994-2000) for privatizing Mexico’s railroads.

Virtually each rider bid services successful Mexico ceased to run aft the railway strategy was privatized.

Now, the Maya Train — built during Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s 2018-24 presidency — has “a batch of passengers,” Sheinbaum said, adding that the projected freight work connected the aforesaid railroad volition assistance unlock the “amazing” imaginable of southeastern Mexico “because contiguous the southeast has a batch of connectivity problems.”

Mexico present besides has a modernized railroad crossed the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, linking Mexico’s Pacific and Gulf coasts, and respective caller projects are underway. Those projects see the operation of bid lines that volition nexus Mexico City to assorted cities, including Pachuca, Querétaro and Nuevo Laredo connected the bluish border.

Sheinbaum said that the operation of caller railroads is portion of her government’s “vision for the aboriginal of the state and is, of course, linked to Plan México.”

Death toll from floods rises to 78

Sheinbaum displayed information that showed that the fig of confirmed fatalities from flooding this period successful the states of Veracruz, Hidalgo, Puebla and Querétaro had risen by 2 to 78. An further 23 radical are classified arsenic missing.

Veracruz has recorded the highest fig of flood-related deaths with 35. Twenty-two of the confirmed fatalities occurred successful Hidalgo, 20 successful Puebla and 1 successful Querétaro.

Sheinbaum highlighted that the authorities is straight distributing assistance to radical affected by the floods without “intermediaries.”

Among the assistance the authorities is providing are archetypal payments of 20,000 pesos (US $1,084) to affected households.

Government workers called “servants of the nation” person been carrying retired a harm census successful scores of flood-affected municipalities to find who is eligible for assistance.

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