John C. Flowers
Correspondent
Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, August 7, 2022, p. 5
Manzanillo, Col., President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pointed out that if the 2018 elections had been won by the PRI member José Antonio Meade or the PAN member Ricardo Anaya, both of them, but more so the latter, would be rejecting Cuban doctors coming to Mexico to help now that they are needed.
During a visit to Colima, the president gave instructions to Raquel Sosa, coordinator of the Benito Juárez Universities, so that the 55 centers that remain to be built are for medicine and nursing, because there is a lack of health professionals in the country. She also announced that the graduates of these educational institutions will have places.
He also lashed out at charro union leaders. he said see them very cocky
, supposedly defending the workers. But what were they doing when there were 80,000 contract workers? What did they do for the workers? Any. Steal and steal, he pointed out after referring to the basification of health personnel that his government has initiated.
Defending his policy of hiring Cuban doctors, he stressed that some conservatives do not like very much the arrival of these doctors in Mexico. They are very fanatical, very individualistic, they don’t get to see that the most important thing of all is to save lives
he pointed.
This is a humanitarian issue, he emphasized after explaining that during the application of the neoliberal model the country was left without doctors. If someone wanted to study medicine, they were rejected because there were no places in the universities.
López Obrador explained that his administration is opening medical and nursing schools and increasing scholarships, so that there are more students. Meanwhile, specialists are being hired. He thanked Cuba because they are going to help with those doctors.
He stressed that if his opponents had won in 2018, they would be rejecting the Cuban doctors, “but we won and we come from a popular movement… to fight for the people and with the people.”
The president supervised the IMSS-Wellness Health Plan at the General Hospital of Manzanillo, where dozens of workers arrived, shouting with banners and calling for better wages and justice in the face of the federalization process of health services.
The head of the Executive said that he will ask the Secretary of the Interior to go to Colima next week, so that he can talk with the demonstrators. Everything that has to do with justice is guaranteed, he pointed out.
Just don’t ask us for things that have to do with using the budget, which is the people’s money, sacred money, to maintain privileges or corruption.
he added at the event in which he was accompanied by the governor, Indira Vizcaíno, and the director of the IMSS, Zoé Robledo.
López Obrador pointed out that in the basification process of health personnel, influential people or charro leaders will not be allowed to take advantage, crack. You know, the caciques last until the people want it and the people no longer want it. No aviators, of those who get paid without working
.
So that the political chiefs of Colima are not confused, the Tabascan sent them the message that he has absolute confidence in the state president.
During his visit to the entity, he met with the Secretary of the Navy, José Rafael Ojeda Durán.
On Twitter he wrote: since the port and customs of Manzanillo are in charge of the Secretary of the Navy, the seizure of drugs has increased, contraband has been considerably reduced and the monthly collection has gone from 8 to 17 billion pesos
.
