Jalisco's Transformation: Sheinbaum Details Progress & Social Programs

Government Achievements & Social Impact

• 💡 President Claudia Sheinbaum reported on the first year of her government (October 2024 - October 2025), fulfilling a constitutional mandate to inform the people of Mexico.
• 📈 A significant achievement highlighted was the reduction of poverty in Mexico, with 13.5 million people lifted out of poverty between 2018 and 2024, reaching the lowest poverty level in the country's history.
• ✅ This progress was attributed to policies like a 125% increase in the minimum wage (in real terms by 2025), record foreign investment, and a strong Mexican currency, debunking myths about inflation and investment.

Key Social Programs

• 💰 The government is dedicating 850 billion pesos to welfare programs in 2025, increasing to one trillion pesos next year, distributed directly to beneficiaries without intermediaries.
• 👵 All Mexicans aged 65 and over now have a universal pension guaranteed by the Constitution, which will continue to increase above inflation.
• ♿ In Jalisco alone, 914,717 seniors and 46,439 people with disabilities receive pensions, alongside support for students, young builders, and small producers.

New Initiatives & Women's Empowerment

• 👩‍🦳 A new Women's Welfare Pension for women aged 60-64 was launched, recognizing the care work traditionally performed by women.
• 📚 The "Becaina" program provides universal scholarships for all secondary school students, with plans to extend a similar small scholarship to primary school students next year.
• 🏡 The "Salud Casa por Casa" program deploys nurses and doctors to homes for early detection and control of diabetes and hypertension, complemented by Welfare Pharmacies for free medication.

Infrastructure & Development in Jalisco

• 🛣️ Plans include repaving all federal highways in Jalisco, starting with Highway 80 after the rainy season.
• 🚆 Major passenger train projects are underway, including the Querétaro-Irapuato route, extending to León and Guadalajara, and restoring the Mexico City-Guadalajara line.
• 💧 Efforts are focused on the sanitation and restoration of the Lerma and Santiago rivers, and studying the Chapala-Guadalajara aqueduct to ensure quality water for the metropolitan area.
• 🏠 6,811 new homes are being built, and 500,469 families in Jalisco have benefited from reductions or write-offs of Infonavit and Fovissste mortgage loans.
• 🔬 Jalisco is also promoting the "Kutsari" Semiconductor Design Center to advance technology and production.

Support for Indigenous Communities & Education

• 🤝 The Constitution was amended to recognize indigenous and Afro-Mexican communities as subjects of public law, allocating 12.5 billion pesos in federal budget for them in 2025.
• 🏗️ Five artisanal roads are being built for indigenous communities, and the Wirárika people have received direct funding.
• 🏫 Educational infrastructure is expanding with a new high school in El Salto, campus expansions in Lagos de Moreno, and conversions in Tonalá and Ayotlán, plus a branch of the Rosario Castellanos National University.
• 👶 97 IMSS Childcare and Education Centers will be built in Jalisco to support working mothers, and each municipality will have a Free Center for women.