“I do not want to be a municipal president of the list of those executed,” says municipal president Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez, who claims to be afraid. “We are not talking about gangs, we are talking about criminal groups, very powerful cartels that are the main generators of violence,” he says.
Given the critical situation that is lived in the territory that governs, known as the world capital of avocado, has made different calls to President Claudia Sheinbaum to intervene with the strength of the Mexican State to put order in Uruapan. Recently he has also requested that the Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch, personally go to the region to coordinate the work in terms of security.
Uruapan stands out at the national level as the third city with the highest feeling of insecurity in the country, according to the National Urban Security Survey of INEGI. It is evident that Uruapense citizens live with fear for the violence that lives day by day: 89.5% of its inhabitants state that they have been the victim of some crime. Other Michoacan cities that appear on this list are Morelia and Lázaro Cárdenas.
Under these conditions, Manzo Rodríguez has opted for an aggressive speech that contrasts with that of hugs and non -bullets that marked the six -year period of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and to which President Sheinbaum has largely given continuity. “There can be no hugs for criminals, for criminals there must be fuck (sic) When they threaten innocent people, ”are some of the words that the president of Uruapan spends, dressed in his inseparable hat and his increasingly inseparable bulletproof vest.
The narrative that has been building includes both speech and its image, molded with actions such as personally operational heading against crime, mounted on a patrol and even helicopter, which has earned it so that the nickname of “the Mexican Bukele” is endorsed.
It does not sound bad as nickname for someone who obviously has political aspirations, as is clearly that of becoming the governor in the 2027 electoral process. It might seem distant in an entity in which Morena has had a vertiginous growth: it went from 3.83% in the election by the governorship in 2015 to be made of the state executive in 2021 with 41.77% of the suffrages.
For now, and under these conditions, Manzo Rodríguez has had no choice but to confront Governor Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, seeking to position himself as a political alternative. One of the main interests of the state government is a cable car that is built precisely in Uruapan, which is allocated at least 3 billion pesos.
The phones of both Morelia and this Aguacatera city place Michoacán as the first entity to have this transport system outside the metropolitan area of Mexico City.
Well, Manzo Rodríguez closed this work at Station number 3, which is located on the Industrial Boulevard. He threatened not to allow the works to follow if their calls are not attended to the state and federal governments to go to the rescue of the municipality that governs.
