Laura Poy and Alonso Urrutia
Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday June 18, 2022, p. 4
So far this government has addressed agrarian problems and many more will continue to be addressed, assured President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but he emphasized that his administration He does not allow himself to be blackmailed by anyone. That was at the time when rulers were corrupt and had no moral authority.
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In a morning conference at the National Palace, he stated that We are going to continue fighting out of conviction, out of principle. we will not get tired
. After noting that he still has more than two years of government left, he acknowledged that there may still be cases of corruption, because the stairs are cleaned from top to bottom, and we will continue
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He added that the country is transforming and most Mexicans know it, they trust us, and there is not a commitment that I have made with the peasants that I have not fulfilled
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López Obrador indicated that he recently dealt with an agrarian problem in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which I had not promised to solve it, but the people see the government as their government and, indeed, they have hope in us, and they arrested me for a 1979 problem of dispossession of 3 thousand hectares
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He explained that an appraisal of 20 thousand pesos per hectare was made, because the land became a colony. “A lawyer arrived who told them (the peasants): ‘don’t accept the 20,000, ask for 200,000.’ They are one of those corrupt leaders that are everywhere and who were used to prospering.”
Faced with the rejection of those affected, he indicated, who tried to block his way, I clarified something that applies to everyone: I am simply an administrator of the town’s money. The budget is people’s money, and I have to take care of it
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