On October 5th, 2024, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum delivered a speech in
Jantetelco in the central state of Morelos (south of Mexico City).
In her speech, President Sheinbaum pledged that “all the programs”, meaning government programs, would become constitutional rights.
Here’s what the Presidenta said:…[V]ery soon in the Congress of the Union, all the programs are going to become constitutional rights: the pension for elder adults from the age of 65, the support for the handicapped, the scholarships for high school, the Sembrando Vida (Sowing Life) program, the support for agriculture, free fertilizer; all the Programas de Bienestar [umbrella program of various welfare programs] .
As we saw in the recent judicial reform [see here, here and here], the Mexican Constitution can be amended very rapidly, especially as the MORENA coalition has so much power in the current Executive, the Congress and the state legislatures.
By Allan Wall
