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Newspaper La Jornada
Monday, October 3, 2022, p. 4
San Pablo Villa De Mitla, Oax., His speech was drawing to a close, with allusions to the works to be carried out in Oaxaca in the last stage of his six-year term, when a cry arose calling for his re-election, which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador He didn’t let it go: “No, not that anymore. Effective suffrage, not re-election. Besides, my opponents are right, I have enough ailments already. I’m already in shock -he said in an ironic tone-, but with what I have left of strength, we are going to finish the transformation of Mexico! ”
It was the culmination of the inaugural act of another branch of Banco del Bienestar, whose growth has already displaced all private banking, becoming the main financial institution in Oaxaca. With flowers hanging around her neck, to thank him for his visit, she took the baton that was given to her and prepared to listen to the honors of his investiture.
political civility
Yet another visit to Oaxaca that on this occasion, unlike other government transitions in the states, allowed the next governor, Salomón Jara, to coincide in an official act with the outgoing one, Alejandro Murat Hinojosa.
Look at the transition this! Let’s see, stand up and shake hands here
. Murat and Jara shook hands. It was the presidential formula to stop some sporadic cries against the PRI and to which López Obrador came out: I respect the opinion of those who do not share my point of view. I want to tell you that Alejandro Murat has helped us a lot here and we thank him.
. There were no major expressions against the politician of the tricolor.
Upon arrival, in a hurried interview, Jara spoke of political civility in the Oaxacan handover: “There will be a peaceful, smooth transition (…) Yesterday I was at the swearing-in of Américo Villarreal and the governor of Tamaulipas ran.”
In Mitla, the town band set the stage for the President’s arrival and departure. Without the restrictions of the pandemic, he was in his element: the public square. People gathered around him to give him fruits, paintings, mats, vases, baskets, flowers, a small bust of Benito Juárez and even puppets with the figure of Dr. Simi.
There were those who took advantage of these fleeting moments of rapprochement to deliver letters to him to solve a thousand and one problems, most of them outside his competence, or to implore his intervention in order to ensure medical care for their children. They told him about unfinished roads, garbage dumps, land regularization, abuses by municipal authorities, political prisoners… Patient, López Obrador listened to them, collected dozens of documents and some, channeled them right there.
Bank branches
As smiling as López Obrador, the head of National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval, seemed not to be overwhelmed by the hints of storm that lie in wait for his secretary with the controversy unleashed by the role of the Army regarding the disappearance of normalistas from Ayotzinapa or by the hack mass of military emails.
It is known with the presidential confidence and thus he rendered accounts of one more of the many tasks that the president has entrusted to him: to build 2,744 branches of the Banco del Bienestar.
Almost like a military part, he gave an account of the state of this other front of the Army, which shows, so far, an advance of 62.7 percent, with 1,722 bank offices completed, some of them in the equipping stage; 797 under construction and 425 pending construction.
All this to sign with his gratitude on behalf of the three bodies that now make up the Sedena. The members of the Army, Air Force and National Guard thank the Mexicans for their trust and for allowing us to serve them
said the general.
These are boom times in the armed forces in the era of the Fourth Transformation.
