After laying the foundations to transform the country, I close my cycle: AMLO

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Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday February 19, 2023, p. 4

Bavispe, Son., With decades behind in its construction, the modernization of the road between Agua Prieta and Bavispe was finally inaugurated this Saturday, which will reduce the transfer time from three and a half hours to one hour. During the act, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador referred to the ongoing construction of the Casas Grande, Chihuahua, Sonora highway, which could be completed before the end of his six-year term.

In this region, where the massacre of the LeBarón family occurred in November 2019, the president opened a space to remember it: To the relatives of the victims of violence, a hug, we will always be remembering them, the girls, the boys, the ladies, all those who lost their lives. They will always be in our hearts.

It was the third day of an intense work tour of Sonora, in which López Obrador highlighted the actions in the energy sector and agreements for the modernization of the customs sector. In this context, he reiterated that there are 18 or 19 months left for his government to end.

–Noooo –was heard among the attendees.

No, yes, yes, because we are already closing a cycle, just imagine 40 years of struggle at ground level, facing all kinds of adversities. And we already consider that we have contributed to laying the foundations for the transformation of the countryLópez Obrador responded.

After pointing out that the key of his government has been not to allow corruption, the president pointed out that that’s why we’re done. We are happy because there is a generational change.

At the end of the ceremony, Adrián LeBarón approached, after a greeting, to express: God bless you.

Members of the LeBarón family had discreet expressions of disagreement with the legal consequences of the massacre.

Julián LeBarón referred to the situation in the area despite the investment of 1,571 million pesos to modernize the road.

I don’t know if security is going to improve in that sense, but the families have already left. There are many ghost towns. Those responsible for having committed this massacre have not been sentenced and not even half of them have been arrested.

Adrián LeBarón indicated that the fact Just because they paved this road is not going to bring families back. It will continue to be a displaced people. We have to understand that it took them 90 years to build this road, maybe if they had built it earlier I would have my grandchildren here, because they were killed here.