▲ Maneuvers performed during the ceremony for the 110th anniversary of the Mexican Air Force. The commemoration was headed by President Claudia Sheinbaum, in Tulum.Photo Luis Castillo
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La Jornada newspaper
Tuesday, February 11, 2025, p. 5
Tulum, Qr., before the military dome in full congregated in this population to celebrate the Air Force Day, President Claudia Sheinbaum recognized the historical fidelity of the military, with special emphasis on the era of the fourth transformation. “The Armed Forces and the Mexican Air Force have loyally accompanied the people in this phase of our history (…) I am proud to fly and walk with you.”
With the presence of the Secretaries of National Defense, Ricardo Trevilla; of the Navy, Raymundo Morales; From the Commander of the Mexican Air Force (FAM), Óscar Rubio, and the Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, said that the Armed Forces have always fulfilled their primary tasks: defend the sovereignty, integrity and independence of our nation, help to guarantee public safety and assist the civilian population in case of disasters.
He dedicated his speech to recognize the Armed Forces, claiming the slogan that the military are uniformed people and clicking them from praise: I want to address a few words for the work they do, their delivery, their patriotism, their loyalty, their sacrifice, their discipline, their mission and for their great love to the country and the people of Mexico. Let us have in the deepest of our being and our conscience the origin of the army
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He also alluded to the character that, he explained, has the government since 2018, with the policy of serving the people, which is their reason and destiny. Being close to the people is our virtue and our strength. Do not forget our history to be certain in doing and in duty. Having your feet on the ground but the eyes on the independent and prosperous horizon is the only path of the town of Mexico
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He made a tour from the emergence of the army and his popular character. He recalled the contribution of Venustiano Carranza to the emergence of the Mexican Air Force, which was immediately correcting an error in the data they wrote for his speech: Carranza was a native of Coahuila, not from Sonora, Sonora, They put it wrong
he corrected immediately to pronounce it.
Sheinbaum mentioned that there are currently An entire town that is not alone, because it has us. And we are not alone in this task, because we know that as long as we do not betray, with us there is the people and in our mind the country. Mexico is proud of each and each of you
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Long life for soldiers, sailors and pilots
He thanked the support of the Armed Forces to conclude that together they will fulfill the task of inheriting a country in peace, free, independent, sovereign, democratic and every day fairer. Long life to the Mexican Air Force, long life to the Armed Forces of Mexico
he maintained at the end of the ceremony, which also included the inauguration of Military Base 20 at Tulum airport.
In turn, the Commander of the Mexican Air Force declared that at 110 years of its creation, that instance today has 1,445 women and 9,93 men, 209 airplanes and 117 helicopters. With these elements it contributes to support the population through the DN-III E Plan and combat drug trafficking with the eradication in 2024 of 2,489 marijuana plantations, 3 thousand 308 of poppy and the deactivation of six clandestine laboratories.
