Live morning press conference. Monday, September 21, 2026 | President Claudia Sheinbaum

Good morning to all. With your permission, President. Who wants the prices? Let's begin. FinBien continues to position itself as the best remittance service after a year. Remember that in this deposit-to-account or transfer modality, we run an exercise on the virtual calculator we have for everyone on the Profeco page, of a $400 send to various remittance companies. And according to the average commission, combined with the average exchange rate, we can determine that of the roughly 15 remittance companies we monitor, FinBien is the one that gives the most, and in this exercise we mentioned, it gives 6,967.53 pesos. We'll put a checkmark on it. And the one that gives the least in this modality is Ria Money Transfer with 6,610.26. We'll put an X on it. Let's continue. And now in the cash-send modality. Pangea Transfer is the one that gives the most, in this case 7,116 for every $400. We'll put a checkmark on it, and the one that gives the least is Home with 6,669.59. Therefore, we'll put an X on it, and remember, in the cash-send modality. And here we did a follow-up over four months. And look at the difference between the remittance companies that give fewer pesos for their dollars and FinBien. In this case we did a four-month follow-up, and if we were receiving every month the money that our countrymen send through FinBien, we would have a gain of more than 15,538.38, since as we have been handling and insisting, it is the remittance company with the best average exchange rate in the entire market, and that is why it is very important that you compare and follow up on the remittance companies that give the most pesos for the countrymen's dollars. Go ahead, please. Well, and in our follow-up on regular gasoline and diesel prices, remember this voluntary agreement that President Sheinbaum signed with the gas station owners. In the case of regular gasoline, we have an average price of 23.68, with nearly 12,000 service stations handling this price. And in the case of diesel, we have an average price of 27, and there are 8,924 stations selling below 27 pesos, as established in the voluntary agreement. There we have our QR code so you can visit the virtual map and review the prices of these two fuels. Go ahead, please. And in our monitoring that we carry out week after week for fair prices, we identified this Pemex station in Hermosillo, Sonora, at 26.95, here in each of the regions, noting that in no case is the profit margin greater than 1.70 pesos per liter of diesel. Go ahead, please. Sorry, a checkmark. These are the ones that go over the fence with prices. We have this BP station in Puebla, Puebla, at 28.28 with a profit margin of 2.66 pesos. Remember that last week we also reported on a BP station that had a profit margin practically double, more than 4 pesos per liter. It has already been reviewed and we did detect some bad behavior in the commercial type and some failures in the volumetric meters of their stations. So, to these gas stations, for each of the regions, we're going to put an X for being outside the agreement and the 27 pesos per liter. Go ahead. In our follow-up and monitoring of the basic basket price, PASIC, remember 24 products that should not cost more than 910 pesos. We have the cheapest, Bodega Aurrerá 11 Sur in Puebla, Puebla, 757 pesos. We'll put a checkmark on it, and the most expensive, HEB 2984 in León, Guanajuato, at 934.90, we'll put an X on it. And in the comparison, what do we do with all three cities? We have all of them below 910, and we highlight the cheapest in Ciudad de México, Alcaldía Iztapalapa, Bodega Aurrerá, 767.50. We'll put a checkmark on it. And in Soriana in Iztapalapa is the most expensive, 865.60. Also a checkmark, it's below 910. In Zapopan, Jalisco, the cheapest, Soriana Guadalajara, 825.80, checkmark, and the most expensive, Walmart Vallarta, 906.10, also a checkmark. Morelia, Michoacán, Chedraui Alto Morelia, 804.60, checkmark, the cheapest, and the most expensive, La Comer, 844.60, also a checkmark. In this case, all six supermarkets are below 910. Go ahead, please. Well, we have this map of the country, divided by each of the regions. We have how much a kilo of plantain costs, national average price. Remember, plantain is part of our PASIC basket, which is at 19.19 per kilo. But look at the difference in each of the self-service retail chains. In the case, for example, of the center-north, Chedraui has the cheapest average price for a kilo of plantain, 15.50, while the Ley chain has it at 25.70. Remember, average prices. In the case of the center region, Bodega 15.64, Supercompras 29.43, same product, same weight. In the case of the north region, Smart has the price of the kilo of plantain at 15.39 and the Aprecio chain at 27.90. And in the case of the southeast, in central markets, average price 12 pesos per kilo of plantain, I insist, and the most expensive, Superaki, at 29.95. That's why it's very important to review our Who's Who in Prices to review this and other types of comparisons and thus have much more information when purchasing your groceries and many other products. Go ahead, please. In the September issue of El Consumidor magazine, a quality study was conducted on 33 instant soups. 2,037 tests were applied, such as net content, energy content, fat, and sodium. And here we highlight four brands that contain more fat than they declare. So it's very important, there's the QR code for our El Consumidor magazine for the month of September so you can review this entire study and all the content we prepared for all of you. We now finish with our, go ahead, with our Profeco tips of the week. One, use our interactive map to locate stations that comply with the agreement and sell regular gasoline or diesel at fair prices. Two, protect your economy and consult the Who's Who in Prices tool to locate the cheapest 24 products of the PASIC basket. Three, download the September El Consumidor magazine and review the quality study of 33 varieties of instant soups. Some have more fat than they declare. Our social media, website, consumer hotline. That would be all, President. Thank you very much. Have a good day, everyone.

Thank you. Good morning to all. President, with your permission. Good morning. Today I come to report to the Mexican women and men on the results of the government policy of President Claudia Sheinbaum to guarantee the right to education. Because when studying stops being the privilege of a few, everything transforms. We have more than 34 million students in the Mexican education system, from preschool, from initial to university, accompanied by 2.2 million teachers in 263,000 schools. This is how our education system is formed, in which 83% of students, 28 million, are in public institutions. The next one, the Wellbeing Scholarships. For the first time in history, all students in primary, secondary, and high school arrive with a scholarship under their arm, and more and more higher education students are joining. It is already the social program with the largest number of beneficiaries. In 2026, more than 20 million students of all levels will have a scholarship, and it is the best way to tell students that we believe in them, that we believe in their dreams, and that school is the best workshop to make them a reality. The next one, please. We have the Rita Cetina scholarship for secondary students. The Rita Cetina scholarship for supplies and uniforms for public primary schools, the Benito Juárez scholarships for high school, and the Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro and Gertrudis Jóvenes Escribiendo el Futuro and the Gertrudis Bocanegra scholarships for higher education. Along the way, in some states, from when children know their first classroom until they graduate from university, they have the support of a scholarship. Go ahead. Well, in this administration, 11 million new scholarship recipients is what we have. Schools have to be beautiful, they have to be dignified. La Escuela es Nuestra attended more than 73,000 schools, including all public high schools, all secondary schools have already been attended. We're at 75% of primary schools, and the most important thing is that more than 8.8 million students benefit, along with the participation of parents, who are the ones who form the committees, who decide, and who execute these resources. The next one, the right to education is also present in the 154 million free textbooks that arrived on time. We started the school year and all the textbooks were already in the schools. Books to awaken curiosity and creativity, reinforce values, love for Mexico and our cultural diversity. They are also support tools for teachers to design projects for the new Mexican school, where critical thinking, the humanist approach, and the community sense bring knowledge into practice and link it with daily life. The next one, the new Mexican school has as one of its transversal axes a healthy life. Why was junk food removed from schools in a single school cycle? Because the new Mexican school was teaching children healthy habits. That's why it was achieved in such a short time. And the national strategy Vive Saludable, Vive Feliz, which our president started, has allowed us to have the assessment thanks to a team of nurses from the IMSS, from IM Bienestar, from the ISSSTE, from the Ministry of Health, from the DIF, to have the assessment of 10.9 million students from more than 83,000 primary schools across the country. We continue fighting, by the way, in the courts against the attempts of large corporations to return to schools, but they won't succeed because the superior interest of our children and youth is being placed above any particular interest. The report has already been given to parents so they can take their children to receive nutritional guidance in the case of weight and height, so that cavities can also be removed when it has been detected that they have this when children and youth need it, and also so they can go get their glasses, which are completely free. At the same time, the next one, please, we are promoting not only recipes in schools but also physical activity. Remember that we had the School World Cup with the participation of more than 1.2 million girls, boys, adolescents, and young people. The goal, as the president requested, is to link the right to education with the right to health and achieve forming the healthiest, strongest, and happiest generation in the history of Mexico. The next one, please. The National Baccalaureate. The National Baccalaureate combines science and humanism to form people capable of understanding their historical moment and assuming their purpose in the community. The common curricular framework unifies a house of knowledge in which it is guaranteed that the daughter of the farmer in Chiapas, the son of the worker in Tijuana, or the daughter of the merchant in Nuevo León share foundations while developing their own roots, vocations, and unique ways of deciphering reality. Upon completing their studies, they receive dual certification: the certification of the National Baccalaureate and the technical certification granted by one of the 29 higher education institutions that joined the University Embrace program, so that young people finishing high school are encouraged to study at university, and in the case of those who decide to work, they arrive with their certification from a higher education institution. We already have the first generation of the National Baccalaureate with dual certification, 709,000 graduates. The next one, please. Neoliberal governments stopped building high schools, and facing growing demand from young people, they made them compete. They told them, "Go, take an exam and compete for a place in a high school." And depending on the number of correct answers, that's the high school you get. Our president said, "Education is a right, not a privilege, a contest, a matter of meritocracy." With the platform Mi Derecho, Mi Lugar, the exam is over. And what happened? Before, with the COMIPEMS exam, 49% of young people ended up in option one or option three among their three first choices. Without the exam in 2026, 99.3% ended up in option one, two, or three. So before, half ended up in the high school they wanted. Now practically everyone chooses the high school they like, and this is being extended throughout the country. There are 17 entities in the Mi Derecho, Mi Lugar program. 96.7% ended up among their three first choices, and more than 587,000 students were assigned through this mechanism. We continue working to remove the exam throughout the country, and now young people choose the high school they like, and that increases the probability that they will finish it, whether it's the one near their home or some career they like. For example, the new ones we have: robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, electromobility, cybersecurity, semiconductors and microelectronics, environmental services, circular economy of agricultural projects, technification of the countryside and irrigation, sanitation and monitoring of water bodies, management of cultural and community heritage, and many more. And all of them within the common curricular framework, which is very important, includes foundations such as critical, philosophical, and humanist thinking or historical awareness and social sciences, because we are interested in forming integral citizens who defend national sovereignty and human well-being. Go ahead. More schools are being built so that no one is left without a place. In a single year, the first year of President Claudia Sheinbaum's administration, 20 new technological schools were built, the same number that had been built in the previous 25 years. In 2026, there will be more than 156,000 new spaces for young people thanks to 485 actions that include 31 new technological baccalaureates and 370 National Baccalaureate Margarita Maza schools, 80 expansions, and the president has announced that the goal will reach 400,000 new places by 2030. So we will soon announce what the next actions are to achieve this goal. Higher education is also a right, and there more than 245,000 new spaces have been expanded. Seven new campuses of the Universidad Nacional Rosario Castellanos are being built and 14 more are in process. The Benito Juárez Universities for Wellbeing will reach 239 campuses, and several institutions have committed to increasing enrollment, such as the Tecnológico Nacional de México, the Technological and Polytechnic Universities, the UPN, also the national pedagogical university, and the state universities that are in this effort. Go ahead. A couple of weeks ago we presented the Higher Education 2026 platform, which was for all those young people who had not been accepted in the UNAM exam to have the opportunity to continue studying. I want to inform you, President, that 14,000 young people have already been assigned through this platform. Young people who were no longer going to study and who, thanks to this new opportunity, have already been assigned and now have the possibility of continuing to study. The goal we have, I forgot to mention it, in higher education in this administration will be the incorporation of 1.1 million new students. The next one. Teachers are our fundamental allies to achieve the right to education. After the neoliberal night, where they were persecuted, imprisoned, we moved to a stage of broad recognition. We went from persecution to basification. In this administration, more than 200,000 teachers have been basified. In total, more than 1.2 million since the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. There is also recognition in salary. Last year 10%, this year 9%, which already adds up to 70% since 2018. And thanks to the decree published by President Claudia Sheinbaum, 74,000 changes of work centers were carried out with absolute transparency, which notably reduced the pressure that existed on USICAM. Here I also allow myself to inform that during the week of the Intensive Technical Council, we carried out a diagnostic survey in which almost 400,000 teachers participated. This diagnostic survey will serve as the basis for the consultation we are going to carry out in October, school by school, to determine the future of USICAM, the disappearance of USICAM. Here we express our sincere gratitude for the great work that teachers do in favor of consolidating the new Mexican school. The next one, please. Our president started a fundamental debate for our country: the impact of screens and social networks on this generation of children, adolescents, and young people. A worldwide concern that has manifested in many countries, even in important trials in the United States, where judges have already declared that these platforms have an addictive design that causes harm to the mental health of children. Right now, the European Union is developing a regulation for children under 13. Here during the month of August, different experts came to talk about the topic. Regional forums were held and a survey in which more than half a million teachers participated, and 81% expressed themselves in favor of a regulation. We had a very interesting debate within CONAEDU with all the secretaries of education of the federal entities, and last Friday we reached an agreement to regulate cell phones and tablets in schools. The proposal is that they not be allowed in primary and secondary schools, restricting their use at these educational levels. In upper secondary, each institution must agree on the limitations to guarantee the responsible and safe use of these devices for pedagogical purposes, and for higher education, to promote the responsible and safe use for a digital citizenship with ethics and critical thinking. So I am going to submit to the consideration and approval of the President of Mexico this CONAEDU agreement, and if we have your approval for it to be published and take effect. We are going to hold assemblies in schools to inform teachers and, above all, families about these new regulations. Date? Yes, once it is published, President, it's 30 days because we want to take advantage of those 30 days to hold the assemblies, so it will be at the end of October when this regulation takes effect. This agreement is a fundamental step to guarantee the rights of girls, boys, adolescents, and young people, ensuring their mental health, their learning, and their comprehensive development, strengthening care, human contact, and community. With this we finish on the second floor of the transformation. Honesty produces results. Love becomes public policy, and public policy becomes rights like the right to education, which is the heart of the transformation. Thank you very much.

Well, it's a debate that the president opened, and different aspects were addressed. First, UNESCO presented a global overview showing that more than 100 countries already had a regulation regarding whether or not to bring cell phones to schools, regarding excessive screen use, access to social networks. Then we invited different experts, some who showed the addictive design of social network algorithms, whose goal is for us to stay glued to the screen. Then we brought experts who told us what the impact of that addiction is on children, on their formative process, on their personality, on their emotions, and how it is linked to mental health issues. All of this we took to the discussion in the Intensive Technical Council. Yes, the public forums. Ah, we held forums at universities, we invited universities, schools, to hold their own forums. We held regional forums, there were four, Ricardo, five regional forums. We took the conclusions, we invited experts. Then, this was also done in the Technical Council, where all the teachers in the country were asked their opinion. By the way, there are very interesting results that the teachers detected, but in summary, 81% said, "Yes, we have to do something because the intrusion of screens, of cell phones in classrooms has had an impact that is not necessarily favorable." With these results and these forums, we also promoted the discussion in CONAEDU, which are all the educational authorities of the federal entities. We spent approximately two weeks receiving their observations, and last Friday we had a CONAEDU session where all of this comes together and this agreement is proposed for the safe use of screens in schools, which, I insist, the summary is: primary and secondary schools cannot use them, high schools must agree in schools with teachers to guarantee pedagogical use, and in higher education, well, they are already of age. There it is a policy that each university must establish to form a digital citizenship. And that is the proposal we have, President, that in case you give us your approval, it would already be published in the Official Gazette of the Federation and would take effect 30 days later, 30 days that we want to use to hold assemblies in schools with teachers and parents.

Thank you, President. Celin Juárez from noticiasdefrente.com. President, what does this agreement to ban cell phones mean for Mexico? As you say, more than anything, screens in primary and secondary schools, this step to contribute to the well-being of girls, boys, and adolescents, not only in their physical health but also mental health. And what call do you make to parents now that this problem is being addressed in schools?

Thank you, President. This weekend in Sinaloa you mentioned something important: interference generates violence. Could you elaborate more on what you mean?

Thank you very much. Finally, President, the ninth Mexican Embraer aircraft has arrived. What does this arrival represent and how does it benefit Mexican aviation now in these times of sovereignty?

Thank you, President. There's one last topic I'd like to ask your opinion on: in Honduras yesterday, fishermen, activists and environmentalists are being persecuted for opposing a business of Ricardo Salinas Pliego, this businessman who appears to be usurping a beach where he is filming one of his reality shows. I'd like to know your opinion on this, whether you have any information about it.

Thank you, President. Let's go over here. Who else? Let's see, the colleague in the second row who hasn't asked yet. Good morning, President. I'm keeping my seat for the camera shot. Regarding the topic of the Rosario Castellanos National University, you've spoken about the expansion of campuses across the country; some have already been announced, but what are the other expansions, which regions are being targeted, and in which disciplines?

On this same topic of the Rosario Castellanos, and speaking of the young people who are applying for admission, what has been the number of applicants? How many have been admitted? I understand that it's everyone, and I'd like to know if there's any relationship. You mentioned at the time that those who did not get a place at UNAM or IPN could turn to this option, and there was talk of keeping a record of how many were going to the Rosario Castellanos. If there's information on that, especially what the admission expectations are, whether they are being met, and what the most in-demand programs are overall, not necessarily by campus?

Yes, President. Well, we had about 26,000 places offered by various higher education institutions in the Valley of Mexico and in some neighboring states. Following what the President asked of us, we spoke with all the autonomous universities, the federal ones, and the Rosario Castellanos itself to launch a new extraordinary call in some educational programs that had available places. I thought it was the Rosario's. Go ahead, sorry. Yes. So, well, the platform has the offer: 18,674 in-person places and 18,829 virtual places, of which 13,920 students are already in the classrooms. Some universities still have their calls open; they were closing their second-round processes, so this figure will grow, President. But well, there are about 33,000—sorry, 37,000 places, a little more, that were made available so that young people who could not access some of the higher education institutions in the Valley of Mexico could do so. So this number keeps growing every day, but already today 13,920 students who had not had the opportunity to access education, including those who did not get into the National Autonomous University of Mexico, have found a place in one of them. Obviously, the Rosario Castellanos offered the most places and is contributing the most to that deficit of young people not admitted to the institutions.

One more question, and I didn't introduce myself: Eder Suárez for Te Lo Cuento. Regarding the topic of regulations on cell phones and devices in schools, how does this proposal align with international regulations? In other words, are regulations from other countries being used as a reference? Which points are followed, which points are touched on? And the secretary mentioned that assemblies were held to reach these measures, right? In those spaces, what were the concerns that teachers mentioned most?

There is no single international model. Each country is doing it differently. Some limit themselves, like us, who have already taken the first step, to regulating access in schools. There are other regulations that go further, regarding access to social platforms. For example, right now the European Union is asking that children under 13 not have access to social networks. Other regulations concern use in schools exclusively for pedagogical purposes. In short, there is no single model. What we did was precisely address the main concerns of teachers. We have the survey results; the conclusion is that teachers say, 'Something must be done, it must be regulated,' but there is very valuable information, for example, that they detect that children get distracted. For example, I also recall that 15% of teachers had detected that children have access to content that is not appropriate for their age, cases of harassment as well. So all of that led us to make this proposal, to protect boys and girls. So there is no single model; there are different scopes in different countries.

And regarding the national consensus you reached with the state secretaries, the live broadcast was only about half. Is there a public version of what was discussed during this agreement, I believe it was on Saturday?

Well, let's go over here. Let's see, Carlos. Good morning to everyone. Carlos Navarro, Heraldo Media Group. President, could you give us a figure that puts in perspective all this work in education, and what educational model are we moving toward in the country with this work that is being done?

If there's a figure that could put in perspective all this work presented by Secretary Mario Delgado, in terms of total investment in education. There's a budget cut.

Well, the draft budget that the President sent to the Chamber of Deputies includes an increase for education, which will mean a record figure of more than one trillion pesos for all educational items. But, as the President says here, if you're looking for a figure, it's that you have 20 million scholarship recipients, and you have scholarship recipients in primary, secondary, and high school, something that had never happened in the country before.

Thank you. President, does this cell phone regulation in schools include teachers?

Thank you. President... Is it not public yet?

President, on another topic, could you elaborate on your meeting with the governor of Chihuahua last weekend? What topics did you address? What was the path you agreed on?

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