REPORTE MÉXICO

Binational Newspaper – Special Edition
Feature Column by Martín Lazo Cuevas

PLAN MEXICO: 18 PATHWAYS FOR A PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES

From San Quintín to Chicago, from Oaxaca to Los Angeles, we Mexicans share more than our heritage: we share a struggle, a hope, and a destiny.
The Plan Mexico presented by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo is not just political rhetoric or a list of promises; it is a project of national reconstruction that speaks directly to us,
the 38 million Mexicans living in the United States.

This 18-point plan is ours too.
Because our families remain in Mexico.
Because we send remittances.
Because we never cut the root.
And because if Mexico rises, we stand taller here too.

1. Food sovereignty
Planting what is ours again: corn, beans, rice.
Stop importing what we’ve always grown.
If the countryside thrives, migration slows.

2. Energy sovereignty
Refining here, producing here.
Gasoline, electricity, clean energy.
With no foreign dependence.
With national control.

3. Public works with territorial justice
Roads, trains, hospitals.
Infrastructure not just for the rich,
but for the forgotten.

4. Dignified housing
Thousands of migrants send money to build homes.
This plan builds for those who are there and for those who will return.

5. Textile industry revival
Mexican hands weaving the future again.
Not just clothing—identity.

6. Pharmaceutical industry boost
Medicines made in Mexico, with Mexican science.
Health with sovereignty.

7. Automotive industry development
Transition to electric vehicles.
With national innovation and jobs.

8. Petrochemical industry revival
Fertilizers, plastics, essential goods.
Lowering costs, strengthening supply chains.

9. Legislative reforms
Laws that support public interest.
So the state is no longer just a bystander.

10. Support for small and medium businesses
The economic heart of Mexico.
And of many migrant families.
With support, they grow.

11. Government purchases with national content
Public money should support local industry, not foreign imports.
Investment with a social mission.

12. Creation of 100,000 jobs
Dignified work at home.
The best migration policy.

13. Investment in science and technology
Investing in the Mexican mind.
From the classroom to the laboratory.

14. Permanent social programs
Pensions, scholarships, support.
Not handouts. Rights.

15. Accessible credit
For entrepreneurs, single mothers, and small producers.
Capital that empowers.

16. Increase in minimum wage
Work that sustains.
That dignifies.
That retains.

17. Guarantee of social rights
Education, healthcare, housing.
Not optional—universal.

18. Diversification of export markets
Opening new markets.
Taking our goods to the world.
And making the diaspora a bridge, not a boundary.

We care. We’re called. We have hope.

This Plan is not for a party, it’s for a people.
And that people lives on both sides of the border.
As a Mexican migrant, I know this path requires organization, participation, and awareness.
But I also know there is now a real possibility.

With Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo at the helm, and with millions of Mexicans—here and there—ready to step up,
Plan Mexico can be more than a policy:
it can become the great binational pact of our generation.

Because when Mexico rises,
we all flourish.

Martín Lazo Cuevas
April 2025, for the Binational Newspaper