Claudia Sheinbaum's Morning Press Conference, September 28, 2026 | LIVE

Good morning to you too, Víctor. Thank you. Thank you, President. Very good day. We are here, I am with Governor Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío, Governor of Baja California Sur. We are in Ciudad Constitución, this is in Comondú, in Baja California Sur. I yield the floor to the governor to inform immediately after about this Category 3 hurricane called Polo and some recommendations for the population. President, please.

Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, President. I send you a fraternal embrace and I also want to express my gratitude because the federal forces have been ready for several days now to support us. We have already been working together in coordination. I want to thank the Mexican Army, the Mexican Navy, and the National Guard, who are pillars, they are the backbone of all the civil protection work here in Baja California Sur, here in Comondú, looking for ways to attend to all the population that requires it, and fine-tuning the last details of the shelters, what we are missing, we still have until noon to fine-tune any detail that may be necessary here in Comondú, in Loreto and Mulegé, which is where the strongest part of Hurricane Polo is presumed to be. My gratitude, President, for being here. Laura Velázquez has been on standby since the first day, more than 2 weeks ago when we had the first emergency meeting to organize, prevent and prevent, asking all the people of Baja California Sur to keep helping us as they have been doing today. We are going to put all our effort. And my gratitude again, President, for your attentions, for being attentive for several days through different media and you personally. Thank you very much, President, a hug and let's hope we will be strong here in Comondú and let's hope this meteor does the least possible damage. We are ready and together with the three orders of government. A hug, President.

Thank you, President. With your permission. We have the updated information from the National Meteorological Service at 6 in the morning, this is Central Mexico time, to inform that Hurricane Polo continues to be Category 3, located 175 km from Cabo San Lázaro. This is to the southwest and also 405 km south of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur. It presents maximum winds of 185 km/h and continues with a northwestward movement of 19 km per hour. This hurricane, President, we inform everyone that it continues its movement towards Baja California Sur, where a first impact is expected this afternoon without being able to determine the hour, but it is in the afternoon between 4 or 6 in the afternoon as a Category 2 hurricane or very probably as Category 3. It has not yet been possible to determine. This will be in the vicinity of the municipality of Comondú, where we are. We are here in Ciudad Constitución to await the impact in Baja California Sur and a second impact on Tuesday on the central coast of Sonora. Winds, rains, and waves will continue to intensify in Baja California Sur and in Sonora. President, if you allow us, we want to make a call for the localities or communities of the municipality of Comondú, mainly in the north of Comondú, the communities of La Ballena, San Juanico, Las Barrancas, Francisco Villa, La Posagrande, Guadalupe, Santo Domingo, San Andrés, San José de Comondú, La Laguna and Ciudad Insurgentes to remain attentive to all the recommendations made by Civil Protection authorities and to remain in their homes or in temporary shelters starting today after 2:00 p.m. We also request that the communities of southern Mulegé, known as CADG, Heroica Mulegé, Punta Chivato, Santa Rosalía, Isla San Marcos, Paloverde, San Bruno and San Lucas, as well as the municipality of Loreto, which are the communities of San Juan Bautista, San Juan Iquito, San Nicolás, Loreto and San Javier. It has been determined, President, that starting today, from 2:00 p.m., mobility will be restricted mainly in these communities I just mentioned in Comondú, Mulegé and Loreto. However, we request that in the five municipalities, also including La Paz and Los Cabos, they stay informed about the conditions and the movement of this hurricane, because it will impact today between after 4 or 5 in the afternoon as a Category 2 or Category 3 hurricane. It is very important to mention to you, President, that yesterday we had a command post meeting led by the governor, and his entire cabinet was present, as well as the municipal presidents of the five municipalities of the state of Baja California Sur and the authorities of the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of the Navy, already with the N3 Plan and the Marina Plan, respectively. Also the National Guard, the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation, the National Water Commission, the Federal Electricity Commission, Pemex, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education. They have been determined. Laura, please, see the recommendations to the population.

Of course. If obviously, President, it is the street. That would be the first and main recommendation, that they stay in their homes and if there is any risk in their homes, they move to the temporary shelters. At the conclusion of this meeting, President, we are going to pass a QR where all the information about the temporary shelters in the state is. At the moment we have 78 people already evacuated preventively and they are in the Ciudad Constitución shelter. It is very important to identify in each of the localities what the risks are and, obviously, stay away from trees, stay away from any billboard, stay away from any obstacle we may have on the road. The main thing is to stay in their homes, not to go out until the hurricane has passed. The shelters are prepared, they are enabled so that they can be fully occupied. In the afternoon. Yes, President. I would also like to mention, President, that all access to the beaches has been restricted. There is no access to the beaches and all maritime activity is suspended. The entire coastal zone, bays, rivers, bridges and roads susceptible to damage are being reviewed by the different authorities so that people do not have access and do not approach these types of areas that could be high risk. Also, President, we very kindly request the population not to take it very calmly, very probably in a few hours we will lose the electrical service and without internet service. This will surely be in a period until midnight that we have this. CFE is already located in strategic places to begin restoring the electrical service immediately. Also, CONAGUA and Communications and Transportation and Pemex if any of the infrastructures are damaged. President, we inform you that we are also prepared because we have another tropical storm. I don't know if you allow me to also inform. About, sorry, brief please, so that. Yes, just to inform you, President, and to the whole population that Tropical Storm Rachel is there, which is 405 km from Acapulco. It is foreseen, President, that this tropical storm will move parallel to the national territory. Let's hope anyway for the precise information from the National Meteorological Service.

Thank you, President. At your service. A hug.

Thank you. Very good morning. With your permission, President, who is who in prices for 13 consecutive months. Finabien continues to be the remittance company that gives the most pesos for the dollars sent by our countrymen. This exercise that we do in the calculator available for everyone on the Profeco website, we do a simulation of sending $400. Last week in our monitoring we detected that Finabien would be giving for these $400, 7,142.21 in the deposit to account or transfer modality. We are going to put a checkmark on Finabien. And in this same modality, the one that gives the least is Riaon Transfer, which would be giving 6,771.39. We are going to put an X and remember that we have the monitoring of around 15 remittance companies weekly for everyone. Go ahead. In the cash sending modality for the same $400, Pangea Money Transfer would be giving 7,316. We are going to put a checkmark. Remember that this figure is given with the combination of the average commission of the remittance company plus the average exchange rate. And in the case of the one that gives the least in the cash sending modality, it is Wells Fargo with 6,828.20. We are going to put an X. We continue now with our monitoring of the national agreement for price stabilization of fuels. In this case of diesel, we have a national average price of 27, which is the objective. And here we locate those that give fair prices and have a fair profit margin too. Liter in this Pemex station in Chalco, State of Mexico. And here the prices for each of the regions and the profit margins that in no case are above 15.52. We are going to put a checkmark. [bell] are the ones that keep flying off the shelf because of the prices. Of course, we located this BP station in Tazcala 28.74 with 74 with a profit margin of 22.90 and here in each of the regions we are going to put an X. We have detected that this particular fuel brand, the next one please, a couple of weeks ago and last week we reported with very high prices these two BP stations in Puebla. We already went to do a visit and we placed banners and warning seals for non-compliance in commercial behavior, since they did not justify charging such high prices. To locate the stations, all of them, we have to remember our virtual map so that you can locate all the stations and the prices for both regular and diesel fuel. Go ahead, please.

Well, and in the monitoring of our basic basket PASIC we have, remember it is a basket that has 24 products and the goal is that it costs less than 910. In our monitoring we identified the cheapest from last week, Megasoriana, Ladiana, Acapulco, 739.90. We are going to put a checkmark and the most expensive Ley Juventud in Durango 911.77. We are going to put an X. We continue with our comparison between cities. State of Mexico, Tultitlán, the municipality of Tultitlán, the cheapest, Bodega Aurrera Fuentes del Valle, 748.50. We are going to put a checkmark. And the most expensive, Mercado Soriana López Portillo, 865.70. Also a checkmark for being below 910. In Puebla, Megasoriana, Plaza San Pedro, 809.90, the cheapest, checkmark and Walmart Nueva Antequera 850.40 also a checkmark. And in the case of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Soriana Super del Bosque, the cheapest 801.20 checkmark and the most expensive Walmart Revolución with 908.50. Also a checkmark, it is below 910. Go ahead. Well, here we did an exercise for everyone, it is a very interesting exercise, we are going to publish it on our social networks, which is a heat map of the average prices by chain with national coverage of each of the products that make up the PASIC basket, of these 24 products. So you can realize, for example, the oil are average prices. In La Comer we find it at 30.52 pesos, but in Walmart we find it at 35.52. The cheapest and the most expensive we classify by colors: green, yellow and red. And here you all can decide where to buy which items. We are going to be publishing this same exercise every month so that you can identify the prices of each of the items and make a better decision when acquiring these basic basket products. So, it is a very interesting guide so that you can decide with sufficient information where to acquire the products you consume every day. These are the first 12 products and the next one we continue at the end with the 24 products of the basic basket. Go ahead. Well, in our September Consumer Magazine we have in the what to do section, right? Right to return a product or cancel a service. We have all the information about what are the reasons for which a service can be cancelled or a product returned for factory defects, for breach of offer conditions, for abusive clauses. And in the article we explain what are the steps you must follow to exercise these rights. In our QR is the Consumer Magazine so that you can review this article and all the other content of our September edition. Go ahead. We finish with our Profeco tips of the week. One, in most service stations, the liter of diesel is sold for less than 27. Consult the virtual map and locate the one that doesn't fly off the shelf, the ones that don't fly off the shelf with the prices. Two, review the heat map of the 24 products that make up the PASIC basket and choose the establishments that have low prices. Three, know what are the reasons for which a purchase or a service can be cancelled in our Consumer Magazine. Download it, our social networks, our website and the consumer phone number. Thank you very much, President. Good day. Go ahead.

Very good morning to all. With your permission, President. Today we want to share with you some of the main results during this second year of government in labor matters. These are results that reflect a labor policy centered on recovering and improving the income of working families, on expanding social protection for workers who, as you well know, were abandoned during the long neoliberal night. Next, please. Labor Spring. Allow me to start with a recent figure that reflects the transformation in the world of work. According to the National Occupation and Employment Survey, in August of this year, 62.6 million people were added to the economically active population. The employed population reached 60.77 million people, the highest figure for an August month and the fourth highest in the series. This means 1.3 million more people than in August 2025. That is, more people participate today in the labor market in a context of recovery of rights and better conditions for workers. In the next one, please. Labor Spring. The transformation of the labor world is not measured only with numbers or with job positions. We also have to consider the conditions in which people work and who are having greater opportunities. Thus we see the results of the 2025 intercensal survey of INEGI that was published a few days ago that show very important changes in the Mexican labor market. Result of the transformations driven by this labor spring. One of the most relevant data is the advance of women. Their economic participation stood at 41%, an increase of 2.2 points. It is also important to highlight that today the quality of life of Mexican workers has improved, that is, the percentage of workers who work more than 48 hours decreased from 27.11 to 22.2% in a period of 5 years, that is, from 2020 to 2025. And this happens at a very particular moment because we are building a path to gradually reduce the working day to reach 40 hours a week in 2030, without reducing benefits and without reducing salaries either. Minimum wage. President, we begin with one of the most important changes of this labor spring, the recovery of the minimum wage that corresponds to commitment 56 of the second floor of the transformation. For decades, during the neoliberal period, the wage lost its purchasing power. Today we have a sustained recovery policy that has allowed the minimum wage to once again have the capacity to improve the living conditions of working families. Since 2018, the minimum wage has had a recovery of 154% in real terms. It went from 88 daily in 2018 to 315 in 2026. This means a monthly income of 9,584. And there is an indicator that I would like to insist on a lot here to know what the reach is and what this advance means for families. In 2018 the minimum wage was enough to buy approximately 0.8 basic baskets. I repeat, 0.8 basic baskets, that is, it was not even enough to buy one basic basket. Today it allows acquiring 1.9 basic baskets, that is, practically two basic baskets, more than double what in 2018. Digital platforms. In the next point we are also addressing a new reality of the labor world. The people who work through digital platforms corresponds to commitment number 59 of your government, President, in the first two years of your government this commitment has already been fulfilled to provide social security to digital platform workers. As of the close of August, 199,454 people exceeded the established income threshold and already have full access to social security. But even better we decided not to stay only there and what we did was that this reform also allowed 177,292 people to be benefited with protection against work risks, even if they only work, for example, once a week or one hour a day. This means something very simple. The labor transformation is also reaching new jobs and those who for a long time were outside social protection. Working day. President, another of the great changes of this second year of fulfillment is the fulfillment, sorry, of commitment number 60, the gradual reduction of the working day. After more than a century with a 48-hour work week. I repeat, after more than a century with a 48-hour work week, Mexico now has a path to advance towards 40 hours in 2030. The reduction will be gradual and next year we will begin with the first reduction of 2 hours. And we are talking about a transformation that will directly benefit more than 13 million workers. The important thing is that this reduction will be carried out without reducing salaries, without reducing benefits, because working fewer hours does not mean working less, it means advancing towards a better balance between work, between family life and between personal life. Labor certificate for agro-export. We are also transforming labor conditions in the Mexican countryside with the fulfillment of commitment 63. The labor certificate for agro-export was approved, a tool to strengthen the fulfillment of labor and social security obligations of agro-export chains. With this policy we seek to benefit about 200,000 rural workers, guaranteeing better conditions and access to social security. The pilot program started on September 17 of this year with the registration of avocado exporting companies. From October 1st, it is also important to highlight that the certificate will be an indispensable requirement to carry out exports of this product. In the same way, the transformation already has territorial presence and following the instructions of our president and in accompaniment also to the strategy of the agro-export labor certificate, we have established the Comprehensive Care Center for Workers in San Quintín, bringing labor services and protection directly to those who work in the countryside, because there cannot be a competitive agro-export if it is not also an agro-export with dignified work. Youth Building the Future. Another of the fundamental programs of this labor policy is this program aimed at youth, which fulfills commitment number 19. Here we talk about a policy that opens the door of entry to the labor world for young people who do not study and do not have a job. In its history, the program has already benefited more than 3.6 million young people with an investment of more than 177,000 million pesos. An unprecedented investment also in youth. And there is a data that shows its inclusive dimension. 58% of the beneficiaries are women and 42% are men. But the most important data is what happens after the participation of young people in this program. According to data from the National Income and Expenditure Survey in Households, seven out of 10 graduates have a productive activity, either working or even also incorporating into study. This means that we are talking about a policy that seeks not only to support young people during their training in this year that they are given the support, but to open the path towards economic autonomy and their incorporation into productive life. And this second year we are deepening this policy, this in this new stage, in this second floor of the transformation. 619,000 young people have been served by the Youth Building the Future program. To achieve these results, 44,000 million pesos have been allocated. These are resources that translate directly for the new generations. President, these results have something in common, they are not isolated changes, they are part of a new labor policy. That is why we talk about a spring of labor rights, a stage in which the rights of workers advance, in which in addition we can all win in an environment of shared prosperity. We have the compass well placed, President. We have tangible results. We are transforming the country. This is how the history that belongs to the people is built. Thank you very much.

Thank you, President. I won't stand up because of the camera shot. Artur Pavón from Efecto Colateral, United States. This labor certificate that is now being implemented, that is right now in pilot or already in pilot. In pilot. Perfect. This has to do with the FTA, right? It's a definition of its own. Many agricultural workers, farm laborers, do not work 8 hours and are paid for the 8 hours of employment, but most are paid by the amount of product they pick or harvest. This form of employment that is legal sometimes lends itself to them working more than 8 hours a day and also not having social security, not registering them with the Mexican Social Security Institute. This certificate was an idea of Mara's, now I give her the floor to explain it in more detail.

Yes, as our president already synthesized, what we seek with this mechanism, this new tool, is that it can be guaranteed that all agro-export products can not only be recognized outside the borders of Mexico for their quality, obviously for the fruit that in this case, for example, avocado is an ambassador of Mexico, and what we want is rather that there is a backing of fair working conditions, and this through guaranteeing it through the agro-export labor certificate program. Basically, as the president synthesized, what we seek is that based on the export declarations, a calculation is made of how much is the labor force that must be formally registered before IMSS so that with this, well, it can be guaranteed that each of the products being exported can have that backing of dignified employment conditions. This is a measure that is within the framework, as I already mentioned, of our president's plan for the fulfillment of government commitments, and what we want is, well, to start obviously with the export part and from there, well, that it also has a lighthouse effect towards the rest of agricultural activities. We will start moreover with avocado, as already mentioned, but it will not be the only product. We will be opening it gradually, then we will continue with berries and so we will also be making the corresponding announcements. Work is also being done very strongly in dialogue with producers, with agro-exporters. There are always meetings where we are exchanging information, points of view. That is also part of the labor policy, as our president has entrusted us, to always have an open dialogue, and this is what has allowed us as a result to have a certificate that allows us to ensure, at least as we are calculating in this first start, 200,000 workers who eventually already have social security coverage that participate in agro-export chains.

And in this matter of simplifying procedures, how simple is it to do that procedure and who would have to do it?

Yes, the agro-export companies have to do it, and we have advanced a lot also in terms of procedures. It is done through the company's registration. You can basically already have all the records that are shared through this virtual tool. So, those who are interested, I'll leave you the page which is velagro.stc.gob.mx. On this Velagro page, which is the labor verification system for agro-export, you can find all the information and also the requirements to be able to request your registration. As I tell you, it is done very simply through these information requests that we are proposing, but in good part it is already complemented with the company's records as well.

Thank you. And I want to ask you, President, about the railway infrastructure, everything that was presented last week. Traditionally, the railway worker is considered to be at the lowest level of the social scale. I mean, we find that the beginning of the railway in Mexico had to do with a very poor society, not in vain, we know through movies the way they lived there in the Guerrero colony, all the workers. In what way is everything that is being started now and what you are going to deliver at the end of your term, how is it going to improve the lives of railway workers?

And finally, President, yesterday during your speech, you obviously spoke about democracy, sovereignty, social justice. That is for when your term ends. How do you see Mexico in 20 years with what you have achieved, with what President López Obrador has achieved? What you are achieving and are also leaving as a legacy for our country, how do you see Mexico in 20 years?

How are you, President? Very good morning. Carmen Sánchez, Azteca Noticias. President, a few moments ago on Hechos AM on TV Azteca, a journalistic investigation was released about the location of Amilcar Olán in Switzerland. This by our colleague Irvin Pineda. Well, this location and also the relationship of this character with various corruption networks. What is your opinion regarding all the allegations made about the involvement of this character in illegal activities that even reach his relationship with Andy López Beltrán and other members of Morena? Do you consider that these allegations against this character warrant, since the Attorney General's Office, headed by Ernestina Godoy, issues or opens an investigation file for this character?

Would you then make the call to the prosecutor's office?

Thank you, President. Good day.

Thank you, President. There are several questions. Well, the topic would be the hurricane. There have already been eight people deceased associated with the hurricane. It is not exactly the impact, but the rains. In Durango, in Jalisco and in Nayarit they have caused the death of eight people. What can be done so that people take it seriously, President? Warnings, we have already talked about the tsunami, but I don't know if it is also necessary to reinforce the warnings for storms as strong as this and that not only people who live on the coast be careful, but people who live near river floods, which is a topic you have talked about a lot, who live in risk areas and also tourists who enter the beach. What can be done, President, for prevention?

The hurricane is about to hit this afternoon, it will cross the peninsula or hit Sonora. You visited the area affected by the rains in Veracruz, Puebla, Hidalgo. In this case, if there is any severe damage, would you also go to support or coordinate the work in these states?

Thank you. On another topic, President, there were also murders of young people in Morelos, students of the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos. What is happening in Morelos with violence, President? Is it planned to reinforce surveillance by the federal forces in some way?

And finally, the topic of Juchitán, Oaxaca. I understand that the state government decreed the disappearance of the municipal government. What is the federal government doing to guarantee governability in that entity and so that what appears to be a link between authorities and organized crime does not return?

You mentioned the deployment of the National Guard. Will there also be actions to prevent extortion from continuing?

Thank you very much, President.

Thank you, President. Good morning. Alejandro Alemán from Diario Plaza Juárez and Enlace Mexamérica. My first question is about giving continuity to the topic of agricultural workers. We know that they don't recognize borders, they go working in the fields throughout the Mexican countryside and they also arrive in the United States. In fact, the United States issues around 500,000 visas to request workers. So in that case, what protection can be given to them? Because on one hand there is the agro-export certificate, which can help them have better working conditions, but once they enter US territory they no longer have protection. The consulates don't have the capacity to support them and moreover there are a series of practices here in national territory where organizations are formed that extort them or pressure them through withholding their documents to get money out of them. There are also a series of situations that happen with migrant agricultural workers.

Without a doubt, President, there are cases where there are complicated situations, such as the case of Jacobo Hernández Juárez, an agricultural worker who has been in the United States for 2 years, who is subject to a transplant, a few days ago he was transplanted and well, what will his future be, because he went to the United States as a worker, he had an accident there, they are treating him there, but well, finally it is very probable that his life will not be normal, that he will need some type of compensation to continue with his life. Do you have information about this?

Of course. President, on another topic regarding the Ayotzinapa report, I understand that it is going to be presented today, but I suppose it is not conclusive, that is, it is part of the work and it is also not determined what is the or if there is responsibility on the part of the State. There is a prosecutor who was already detained, who was in prison, who right now is a former governor. All that part I understand is not yet resolved, in addition to the work that the Mexican government has done in this last period to work on disappearances, such as the Forensic Identification Bank, such as the accompaniment to the searching mothers. But I would like to ask you about the cases where there is State responsibility, such as the case of Rosendradilla, who was disappeared in 1972 at the hands of the army. The case is documented, it was found that there is army responsibility, there is even a conviction from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that has not been complied with. So much so that the Supreme Court of Justice took up the case a week ago to impose coercive measures so that it is complied with. Here there is army responsibility. What is happening so that the army does not acknowledge that there was a violation of human rights?