It is a reality that the so-called “Second Floor of the Fourth Transformation” will require modifications. Among many other pending issues, it will be the task of the next government to consolidate a pension system that guarantees a decent amount for workers at the end of their working life, as well as the expansion and protection of social programs.
However, now that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has already done the heavy lifting, the opposition seeks to hang its hat by promising to “improve” said social programs. Programs for which they voted against, warning that they would bankrupt the country, but faced with the imposing reality that these social projects have lifted millions of Mexicans out of poverty, they have had no choice but to accept them… and even take them as their motto. Campaign.
There, we will have to be very attentive, and with a fresh memory, for when the Executive Branch in the next administration, which with the exception of a single pollster indicates that it will be headed by Claudia Sheinbaum, seeks to carry out some modification to the social programs. through Congress. In such a scenario, what will the opposition do? Approve what they conveniently find today as an electoral “coincidence,” or they will continue to oppose it from their seats.
Today, in the heat of the elections, they only have to promise that they will not only guarantee the permanence of social programs, but that they will increase them; However, as an opposition, once the next six-year term begins, we will see if that hidden endorsement was real.
Regarding the direction that the pension system will take, based on the first version of a sovereign fund that was created for this purpose, the panorama will be even more revealing for those who oppose it today, since it is incongruous that, on the one hand, they support social programs, but on the other hand they oppose the advance of a system that seeks to guarantee a decent income for workers, in the face of their old age.
Under this premise, does the opposition seek the well-being of the workers, or to obtain the greatest number of votes possible? You give your opinion.
They defraud using Pemex
The popularity that President López Obrador has given to Pemex, because it is an essential part of his national sovereignty policy, has been capitalized by criminal minds, who seek to defraud people.
Between 2023 and so far this year, Pemex has detected around 500 fraudulent sites in which they promise people exorbitant profits if they invest in the national oil company, using the image of AMLO himself; the director of Pemex, Octavio Romero Oropeza; and even Eng. Carlos Slim.
According to the list of these sites, which Pemex constantly updates, the malicious ads are found mostly on Facebook profiles, as well as on Internet addresses, although they have also found fraudulent links on YouTube and LinkedIn.
In this regard, Pemex warns that these pages have forms in which they request personal and financial information with the aim of collecting data that is later used to defraud users. Faced with this problem, the oil company asks the general public to report it through its official website. https://www.pemex.com/Paginas/formulario_pf.aspx. Waters.
