Emir Olivares and Alonso Urrutia
Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday December 20, 2022, p. 13
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador met yesterday evening with two thirds of the country’s governors in order to review the progress in the construction of the Banco del Bienestar branches, since next year 500,000 will be paid million pesos to 25 million families as part of social support programs.
The meeting was held at the National Palace behind closed doors with 20 state leaders – from all political forces – to unblock some procedures, especially in obtaining the land, in order to conclude the construction of these headquarters in various communities.
In his social networks, the head of the federal Executive announced that the construction of the branches of the financial institution will be completed next year.
We met with governors to supervise that, of the 2,744 branches of the Banco del Bienestar, there are already 1,873 completed, 199 in process and 210 properties are missing. State and municipal authorities and commanders of regions and military zones help us in this. We will finish on time.
With him were the Welfare Secretaries, Ariadna Montiel; from National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval; from the Treasury, Rogelio Ramírez de la O, and from the Interior, Adán Augusto López Hernández.
In an interview upon leaving the National Palace, the latter briefly commented that it was a very good meeting that lasted almost two hours and in which there were also end-of-year messages for the holidays.
The head of the Interior added that this Tuesday the legislators of Morena and allies will attend a meeting with the federal president.
– What is the line? –She was asked.
“That there is no line,” he said as he withdrew smiling.
For his part, the governor of Sonora, Alfonso Durazo, commented that in his state they are 100 percent with the land.
–How many governors were missing?
No, none were missing. They were not all summoned because there are states where this process has already been completed.
PAN member Mauricio Kuri, from Querétaro, explained: It remains to see some land that they want to support it. By the way, the seven that were pending already have them. In Querétaro we are at 100 and it is a good help for people who are far from the metropolitan area
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Other governors who attended were: from Quintana Roo, Mara Lezama; Veracruz, Cuitlahuac Garcia; Chiapas, Rutilio Escandon; Guerrero, Evelyn Salgado; Puebla, Sergio Salomón Céspedes –who will take the place of the late Miguel Barbosa–; from Michoacán, Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla; Tamaulipas, Américo Villarreal; Oaxaca, Salomon Jara; Durango, Esteban Villegas; Tabasco, Manuel Merino; State of Mexico, Alfredo del Mazo; from Guanajuato, Diego Sinhue Rodríguez, and from Yucatán, Mauricio Vila, among others.
