Experts are enthusiastic about poverty reductions achieved under former Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador
When Amlo took office in 2018, there were nearly 52 million people living below the poverty line: by the time he left office six years later, that number had dropped by 13.4 million, a decrease of almost 26%. Extreme poverty also dropped from nearly 9 million people to just 7 million.
In a country that has long suffered from deep inequality and struggled with economic precarity, the steep drop in the number of people living in poverty is a remarkable achievement and suggests Amlo’s policies had a measurable impact on the lives of millions of everyday Mexicans.
“It’s something extraordinary, historic, the reduction [of poverty],” said Amlo’s successor and ally Claudia Sheinbaum during a news conference on Thursday. “‘For the good of all – first the poor’ is not just a slogan, but a reality in Mexico.”
Great to see for Mexico.
They’re actually going to end up building that wall and paying for it eventually just to keep out the deluge of economic refugees.
Except growing your population, particularly a population of young professionals, is generally good for you industry and economy overall.
So, they’re more likely going to open a big beautiful door to Spanish speaking young adults who want to leave.
Yeah if it’s somehow not Poland’d by Mango Mussolini Mexico’s gonna be making bank off all those immigrants.
Hell, they might offer Spanish lessons to those with valuable degrees.
Crazy story inbound! Think it was 8th grade, early 80s, when our teacher was pointing out how corrupt Mexico’s government was. She said 20% of the people owned 80% of the wealth. We kids were shocked at hearing of such inequality. Stunned. Who ever heard of such a vile government, to let their people be obviously fucked over.
Would we Americans not kill or die to have that today?! 1983 Mexico sounds like a fucking utopia compared to 2025 America. Imagine that.
We are very happy to see this in Mexico. We only hope for it to be sustainable. Mexican economy is not growing as fast as other developing countries’, but the economic equality is going down. This is not terrible, since wealth is flowing to the poor. The extremely rich are still extremely rich, so, probably they aren’t very happy, but they’ll be okay.
Won’t someone think about how all the poor billionaries and how they had to give up only a fraction of their wealth? /s
