The poverty figures that the government presumes and that now presents the INEGI are like the ahuehuete of Paseo de la Reforma, a single tree, taken from the forest, with a expensive armor, which costs millions and that concentrates all the reflectors.
Paying to the analogy, in that place he lived peacefully for 100 years a palm tree that mysteriously became ill and died. His place was claimed by a first ahuehuete that lasted less than a year before drying a very high cost, a second tree of that species was sown that costs a lot of money guarding and simply does not look.
The fact as good as a healthy Ahuehuete is that the total population in poverty went from 46.8 million people in 2022 to 38.5 million in 2024, that the percentage of poverty population went from 36.3% to 29.6% in that period and that the number of people in extreme poverty went from 9.1 to 7 million people.
Of course, for this, direct transfers, without much control and with hidden management costs, of the so -called well -being programs, is like the expensive metal fence of the reform ahuehuete.
But what contributed the most to achieve this positive result for Mexico was the way López Obrador endorsed a plan of private initiative, Coparmex, and imposed a significant increase in the minimum wage.
However, this apparent economic success has resulted in the dismantling of social services built for many decades, not only for the cost of welfare, but also because of infrastructure occurrences.
It is like La Palmera that lasted 100 years in Reforma until the current regime came to knock it down to plant its useless Institute of Welfare (Insabi) that died quickly, like the first ahuehuete.
And there are the Inegi numbers, despite the reduction of multidimensional poverty, lack of access to health services has increased dramatically.
In 2024, 44.5 million people did not have access to health services, that is 34.2% of the population and implies an increase of 25.7 million people since 2016.
When a poor patient person has to allocate 50% of his income to buy some medicine that surely a pharmacy doctor prescribes him, which is today the second most helpful health consultation option.
Mexico is a country of serious diseases, such as diabetes, whose death rate has increased by 139% between 2010 and 2020 in communities of high percentage of indigenous population.
In addition to hypertension, obesity, and malignant tumors that are the third cause of death, after heart disease and diabetes.
The lack of free health, quality and sufficient services has caused the average quarterly health spending among Mexicans to have grown by 41.4% between 2018 and 2024.
Thus, the catastrophic expenses, the lack of other social security services, the lack of public security and many other items that have broken down in the country, are the rest of the forest that we have to contemplate, beyond the beautiful ahuehuete of well -being.
