As a result of the López Obrador government’s failure to reduce the economy, employment and poverty, many people are turning their eyes to the past, without noticing that the country has the 40 years needed to reduce economic and employment growth. Huh. poverty and provide opportunities for development to the entire population.
The last significant change in economic matters was the free trade agreements with the US and Canada, but with neither agreement, nor with structural reforms, were the levels of investment needed to explode the economy, employment and poverty reduction.
The future of Mexico may lie neither in the position of Echeverria and López Portillo nor in the neoliberalism of Miguel de la Madrid until Pea Nieto, which reduced the state to its minimal expression, much less in populism that distributed money. Apart from spending and spending, it has failed in its objective of providing opportunities to the entire population and reducing poverty.
We are at the center of world trade, next to the largest economy in the world and we haven’t been able to take advantage of that advantage. We are now presented with a new opportunity, with the conflict between the US and China putting Mexico in the foreground to integrate the economies of North America.
To achieve this, we will have to undertake a number of profound reforms which, on the one hand, provide security to national and foreign investment and, on the other hand, a financial reform that provides the state with the necessary resources to guarantee overall population security, education . , health, housing and quality public services.
To guarantee the compliance of law at all levels it is necessary to guarantee the rule of law along with intensive reform of the judiciary and administration of justice. A great national agreement is needed to provide long-term security, without it the investments it intends to make to accelerate economic growth will never be delivered.
On the other hand, a deep fiscal reform to increase public revenue to at least 1% of annual GDP over the next 15 years to finance and guarantee public safety, education, health, housing and quality public services as a whole. Necessary. Care of the environment and infrastructure which the country needs for its development.
López Obrador won because people were fed up with the promises, failures and corruption of the governments of recent years. People continue to believe in him, because they see no other option. Believing that the future lies in looking to the past would be the biggest mistake, not only in economic matters, but in political matters, if you want to win the 2024 election.
If we want to take a big leap, the task is not easy, in addition to guaranteeing the rule of law and fiscal reform to ensure a welfare state, it is necessary to undertake profound reforms among others to limit presidentialism and shield. division of powers; promoting federalism, strengthening both state and municipal governments and police forces; Support civic participation and organization; To make a true revolution to modernize public education and free it from union; formalization of the economy and employment and support of banking; Similarly, protect the environment for the generations to come.
