Calderón not only militarized the country, he also trafficked weapons: Adán López

Ernest Martinez

Correspondent

Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, October 26, 2022, p. 3

Morelia, Mich., The head of the Ministry of the Interior, Adán Augusto López Hernández, assured yesterday that there is an international investigation against former president Felipe Calderón Hinojosarelated to the operation Fast and Furious, by which the United States brought thousands of weapons into Mexico between 2006 and 2011.

He added that the former PAN president, whom he referred to as Felipe, The smallNot only bloodshed the country and militarized it, but he and his administration ended up as arms dealers.

When we talk about the purchase of arms, everyone remembers how in the time of Calderón, not only was the country militarized but, in the height of shamelessness, he and his government ended up becoming arms dealers.he asserted.

The arsenal destined for our armed forces, for the police, was sold to organized crime, which is why (Genaro) García Luna, former Secretary of Public Security, is detained in the United States; that is why there is an international investigation against Felipe Calderónhe pointed out.

Fast and Furious was an operation in which the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allowed the sale of thousands of weapons to traffickers who would take them to Mexico, and that way the agency would follow the trail, but in reality it lost the control.

Clash with the PAN

López Hernández yesterday attended the Congress of Michoacán, Calderón’s homeland, to promote the approval of the reform that will prolong the participation of the Army in public security tasks until 2028.

PAN legislator Óscar Escobar Ledesma complained to the federal official: you are not a qualified voice to come today to tell the deputies what we have to do on this (security) issue. Your voice is not rated in our state.

Escobar took up the questions of Germán Martínez, senator of the plural group, to the Secretary of National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval, on the 18th.

“All respect for the Mexican Army, what we want is for it to triumph over criminals. In these almost four years, they have ordered the Army to build an airport, a train, barracks, and they obey, and as Senator Germán Martínez would say, “if they are ordered to liquidate the electoral adversary, are they going to do it?” ‘ he questioned.

Escobar Ledesma’s statements bothered López Hernández, who snapped at him: “everyone has the idols and the references they want. Imagine having as a reference a fascist senator of the Republic, by the way, from Michoacán.

“Those recipes should have been applied or you should have recommended that they apply it to Felipe, The small, and other presidents of the Republic, who are the ones who bathed this country in blood. At some other time, because I am obliged to maintain the secrecy of many of the matters that I know, I will tell you what happens with that investigation of Fast and Furious”.

Safety in Michoacan

Adán López congratulated the morenista governor Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, because in the last two months there has been a reduction in the entity, according to my figuresfrom 28 to 30 percent in intentional homicides. Have no doubt, there will be security for the people of Michoacanhe promised.

Regarding the permanence of the armed forces in security tasks until 2028, he stated that a large part of Mexico would be at the mercy of organized crime if the Army returns to the barracks.

He recalled that there are mayors who do not have municipal police. “In many cases, authorities came to charge with financial unpleasant or out of fear they handed over the plaza,” he admitted.

Ramírez Bedolla commented that the technical council of the Fund for the Strengthening of Peace will have in 2023 more than one billion pesos to face insecurity in the entity. The military are not interested in the Presidency. The next president will be a civilian and he is the one who is here, in this roomfinished.