Alonso Urrutia and Alma Muñoz
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, October 29, 2024, p. 9
The high-caliber weapons that were used during the confrontation last week in Tecpan de Galeana, Guerrero, came from the United States, said President Claudia Sheibaum. When referring to the future of the relationship with the US government after the presidential race in that nation, he maintained that Collaboration levels will be maintained, but without submission, with dialogue and joint work
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After remembering that the escalation of violence in Sinaloa is due to a special situation, resulting from the arrest of the United States (of Ismael May Zambada), about which he is still waiting for information, since it is a process that is not yet clear, asked questions about the neighboring country:
What happens when the illegal drug passes to the other side? What, there are no cartels there? What happens to the financial resources from the sale of different drugs and in particular fentanyl? So, it’s here, but it’s also there. And what happens to the weapons that pass from the United States to Mexico? Now, what we saw in the case of Tecpan de Galeana, in Guerrero, was high-caliber weapons that came from there.
. In his conference, Sheinbaum offered that Mexico, however, will maintain its collaboration in all areas, although he expressly mentioned the fight against fentanyl trafficking, because it is a drug that generates a growing public health problem in the United States. which implies that it is a contribution from Mexico for humanitarian reasons
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When asked about the strategy to confront the rates of violence in the country, Sheinbaum ruled out that his government intends to negotiate with organized crime organizations, and stressed that the National Security Strategy will gradually give results.
He highlighted that during the six-year term of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador there was a debate about the number of homicides, but the “important thing was to reverse the upward trend in the incidence of this crime.
We have committed that little by little homicides will decrease, because there is a strategy. And we are going to pacify the country, in the areas where there are still problems of insecurity and violence. In particular, Sinaloa is a special case, from what we already know, and there are other entities where it is being attended to.
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In addition, he dismissed the projections published by the International Monetary Fund, which warn of a possible adverse impact on the Mexican economy if violence is not reduced.
Frequently, only crimes are taken into account without considering the case of arrests, drug seizures that have been made, and comprehensive work in public security.
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Hypocrisy blue and white
Regarding the criticism of the national leader of the PAN, Marko Cortés, to the violence, he considered that there is a lot of hypocrisy behind it, because Yes, they are fighting, right? Some claim (Genaro) García Luna (on trial in the United States for leagues with drug lords) and others do not, let them resolve their internal problems there. But it’s hypocrisy
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