▲ The President and his next successor, after inaugurating a hydraulic project in Lerdo, Durango, for the benefit of 2 million people.Photo Presidency
Alonso Urrutia
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The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, August 25, 2024, p. 5
Lerdo, Dgo., They say that we are going to be authoritarian, that democracy is over in Mexico. Quite the opposite. What happened on June 2? Who decided who will govern? Who decided the deputies and the senators? The people of Coahuila, the people of Durango and the people of Mexico!
launched the president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum.
One day after the National Electoral Institute (INE) confirmed the qualified majority in San Lázaro for Morena and its allies, Sheinbaum claimed the democratic origin of her election as the first female president and the correlation of forces in Congress. And she said it was precisely in this region of La Laguna, where the last strongholds governed by the PRI, once the hegemonic party, converge: Durango and Coahuila.
During the inauguration of the second stage of the Healthy Water for La Laguna project, the Morena member did not leave aside political courtesy and hinted that under her administration, both entities will work hand in hand and in coordination with the opposition governors, Esteban Villegas and Manolo Jiménez, from whom she had heard praise for her and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
He offered them collaboration, but before them he also proclaimed, once again, the continuity of the economic and social model of humanism that López Obrador established on the premise of First the poor
. A principle that has not only allowed us to serve the most needy sectors, but has also benefited entrepreneurs, that is, it has proven to yield results, he stressed.
“Continuity in the project has allowed for a smooth and historic transformation, because in the past, whoever came to power looked for a way to distance themselves from their predecessor. Sometimes they would even say: ‘No, I have nothing to do with the previous one,’ and continuity would be lost.”
At the time, the President alluded to the importance of having a qualified majority in Congress, Because it will allow social programs to be incorporated into the Constitution, which will then cease to be government actions, since regardless of who is in government, they will be social rights of the population.
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The presence of López Obrador and Sheinbaum in this region was to inaugurate the second stage of the ambitious Healthy Water for La Laguna project, with which the Durango cities of Lerdo and Gómez Palacio, as well as Torreón, Coauhuila, will stop being supplied by wells contaminated with arsenic.
The director of Conagua, Germán Martínez, reported that with the investment in hydraulic infrastructure to bring water from the Nazas River, it will be possible to supply 200 million cubic meters per year to La Laguna, benefiting 1.6 million people immediately, and in the future, 2 million over 50 years. In addition, he said, it will allow the recovery of the main aquifer of La Laguna, which is descending two and three meters per year.
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Sheinbaum offered to expand the Healthy Water program for this region, not only to modernize the irrigated lands, but also to ensure that the resources that will be supplied from the Nazas actually reach the homes of the entire population of this area.
Although the relationship between the federal Executive, his next successor and the governors was cordial, at the end of his tour in lands under PRI governments, there was not the effervescence among the attendees that characterizes López Obrador’s official acts in entities with Morena governments.
Among the politicians, cordiality prevailed. How I wish I had met you earlier; how I wish I had worked more with you, President.
said the PRI member Villegas to the federal Executive, who with the multi-million dollar investment that he authorized for La Laguna will solve the water problem in the region for the next 50 years.
In response, López Obrador praised the position taken by his adversaries, because even though there have been conflicting positions, They have not gone beyond insults and insults, but Manuelita has been in Heaven for a long time. And when you govern you have to put up with a certain amount of humiliation.
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