This editorial by Arturo Huerta González originally appeared in the April 7, 2026 issue of La Jornada de Oriente, the Puebla edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper. The views expressed in this article are the authors’ own and do not necessarily reflect those of Mexico Solidarity Media or the Mexico Solidarity Project.
By 2027, the Secretariat of Finance indicates that the country’s economic management will continue “preserving macroeconomic and fiscal stability.” Fiscal policy will continue to favor the financial sector at the expense of formal job creation, import substitution of gas and basic grains, and endogenous growth conditions that would reduce dependence on foreign sources.
The Preliminary Criteria reiterate the discourse of the previous six-year term that social policies strengthen household incomes, that they “have a…
