Sheinbaum Promises Not To Betray the People’s Trust

ByMexico Solidarity

This article by Emir Olivares, Alma E. Muñoz and Alonso Urrutia originally appeared in the September 1st, 2025 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Mexico City. “We’re doing well and we’ll get better,” said President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo at the end of her address to the government.

In front of special guests who listened to her for just over an hour in the Patio de Honor of the National Palace, the president asserted that her first eleven months in office have been “a time of hard work.”

President Sheinbaum took the opportunity to thank all the members of her primary and extended cabinet for being part of the project.

“We’re doing well, and we’ll get better… I repeat, we’re doing well, and we’ll get better. For our people, for our homeland, it’s worth giving every hour, every minute, and every breath of our days.”

The head of the Executive stated that she came to the Presidency of the Republic—as the second administration of the Fourth Transformation, after Andrés Manuel López Obrador—to “continue transforming the nation, for peace and the well-being of the people.”

She sent a message to the public: “Rest assured that I will not betray. With the strength of Mexico, of our people, I will walk tirelessly, with integrity, with courage, and I will always honor the trust placed in me.”

Sheinbaum Pardo praised the nation, asserting that Mexico “is a great country” with “wonderful” people.

In closing her address, the President emphasized that today, as the so-called Month of the Homeland begins, when the feats that led to national independence are commemorated, “we say with strength and joy: we are a free, independent, and sovereign country; with a hardworking and extraordinary people. We are cultural greatness and we are always, and forever, servants of the people and the homeland.”

To conclude, the ceremony included a “Long live Mexico!” and three “Long live Mexico!” shouts. The audience rose to their feet to bid farewell to the president with a prolonged round of applause.