For decades, Mexico struggled to build social development, macroeconomic stability, accumulate reservations, reduce its debt and generate public institutions that serve the population. However, in the recent seven years that architecture has been undermined by a populist regime that, under the flag of fighting corruption, has ended up being the most raptor and destructive in the recent history of the country.
Today Mexico is indebted as never before. Morena and her government have brought bankruptcy to the country. The administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador inherited a public debt of 10.5 billion pesos in 2018, and in 2024 it raised it to more than 18 billion. Everything indicates that the new administration will not only maintain that trend, but the debt will exceed 20 billion pesos in 2025. But the most serious is not the figure itself, but the destiny of these resources: far from going to the welfare of the people, they have been diverted to benefit facade companies, linked to family, friends and political operators of the regime.
While the debt multiplies, the living conditions of the population deteriorate. Mexico spends less in health and education than the average Latin America, and public hospitals have neither doctors nor medicines. In contrast, money has gone to useless, expensive and harmful megaprojects: a refinery that does not refine, an airport without real commercial flights and a train that does not circulate and has devastated the jungle of the Mexican southeast. Works that represent the cult of the one of a man and the business of many accomplices, not a benefit for the nation.
This economic populism has emptied the funds and reserves that were built for years. The budgetary income stabilization fund was exhausted, strategic trust were pissed off and resources from the pension system were taken without a sustainable plan. All this has been accompanied by a propaganda device that hides the crisis, blames the previous governments and boasts non -existent “savings”.
Inflation continues to replenish and public infrastructure falls apart: maintenance schools, roads in poor condition, abandoned hospitals. Instead of strengthening quality public investment, clientele spending has been privileged, feeding political structures at the expense of the State’s financial viability.
-Mexico is indebted, yes, but not to build future, but to sustain a present based on lies and diversion. Today’s debt will be the burden of generations that come.
It is time to say it clearly: Morena’s economic populism was not a social policy, it was a looting disguised as justice. True justice will begin when those responsible pay accounts and Mexico recover the path of honesty, development and reason. Because there is no possible transformation where poverty is used as a pretext for embezzlement, and power as an instrument for impunity.
National President of the PRI
