Morning press conference, from the National Palace. Wednesday, December 4, 2024 President Claudia Sheinbaum. 00:00 Start of broadcast 11:46 Press conference begins 13:45 Increase in the minimum wage for 2025 40:14 Strategy to address theft by carriers 43:53 Questions and answers session 1:48:50 Lie detector We present very good news for the people of Mexico: The minimum wage will increase by 12 percent in 2025. This is a decision that arises from a consensus with workers, unions, and the business sector. Starting in January, the monthly salary will go from seven thousand 467 pesos to eight thousand 364. At the border it will be 12 thousand 596 pesos. It represents a 135 percent increase in purchasing power compared to 2018. Throughout the neoliberal period, rulers boasted abroad about cheap labor; this speaks of dehumanization. From 1992 to 2018, the salary remained constant in real terms, which generated impoverishment of workers. Under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the minimum wage grew significantly. Our goal is for a salary to be enough to buy 2.5 basic baskets; it would mean an annual increase of 12 percent. They said that if the salary increased, inflation would grow. False. That foreign investment would stop coming. False. As an example, we report that unemployment is at its lowest level. According to the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (Inegi), during October it decreased to 2.5 percent. Mexican humanism works, it gives results, it reduces poverty and inequalities; it improves the quality of life and well-being of the population. The Mexican model is unique. Next year we will allocate 800 billion pesos to the Welfare Programs; in addition to helping those who have less, it boosts the internal market. To protect the roads of our country, the National Guard is implementing the Balam strategy, which is already beginning to yield results. It deploys more than a thousand elements, radio patrols, aircraft and advanced technology in 12 entities with the highest incidence of cargo theft. We maintain contact with transporters. In Sinaloa, the federal government made the largest seizure of fentanyl pills; it is the result of an extensive investigation. It involves more than 20 million doses for an amount of eight billion pesos. Attention to the causes, coordination, intelligence, investigation and zero impunity continues. The Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch, traveled to the entity yesterday; he will remain a few days with a special team from the Secretariat of National Defense and the Secretariat of the Navy to coordinate and reinforce the strategy in the state and support local authorities. Next year marks the 700th anniversary of the founding of Tenochtitlan; there will be a commemoration in Mexico. We will continue to insist that Spain apologize. Forgiveness makes peoples and governments great; it strengthens relationships. It recognizes atrocities and violations against indigenous peoples; it allows us to see into the future. Today we will meet with mothers and fathers of the students of Ayotzinapa. Today's lie detector reported the reality of false versions spread about alleged tax increases and other issues.