Jared Laureles
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, December 14, 2024, p. 6
Alicia Bárcena, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), assured that disguise
of diplomatic act private reception
which Martín Borrego convened at the National Museum of Art (Munal), where the alleged wedding of the former official took place last October.
In her first direct message about the controversial marriage, in front of her husband, workers and collaborators of the agency, the head of Semarnat confirmed that she attended the diplomatic activity, but “we all went with another idea.
I have never denied my attendance at said reception, but I do categorically deny that I am held responsible for having endorsed, concealed or used my position for an inappropriate event.
he stressed.
Considered serious
that Borrego, in his capacity as head of the Foreign Ministry office, sent a letter on official letterhead without my knowledge and without my authorization
addressed to the director of the museum in order to request his approval to hold a cocktail, but he presented it as a diplomatic event to celebrate 89 years of relations between Romania and Mexico
.
Therefore, My immediate decision was to request Martín Borrego’s resignation for abuse of authority and because he broke my trust by using his position to obtain personal benefit and disguising it as a diplomatic event. We all went with another idea
he stated.
Bárcena explained that last October 4 she was invited to a private event by her former collaborator and her partner, who is a Romanian diplomat who ended his assignment in Mexico to also celebrate his recent wedding
.
▲ Alicia Bárcena regretted the interested controversy that tried to stain my career of more than four decades
.Photo Luis Castillo
He assured that They were already married
and in that act there was no religious or civil ceremony
but yes, a toast symbolically dedicated to the newly, but already married, colleagues, also accompanied by a cultural event
.
In an activity to which the media was not invited and broadcast at the last minute, the experienced official reiterated that the Foreign Ministry It did not disburse any public financial resources regarding this reception, as proven by my detailed administrative delivery to the chancellor who succeeded me.
.
She regretted this “interested controversy that tried to stain my career of more than four decades… I am not naive, I am not surprised by the cynicism or bad faith of those who look for ammunition anywhere to try to weaken the achievements that we have achieved and those that I had to achieve in the Mexican Foreign Ministry.”
When thanking President Claudia Sheinbaum for her trust and support expressed in the morning conference, the head of Semarnat assured that during her public service in the Mexican government and in the United Nations I have never been subject to any objection regarding transparency and public management.
. For this reason, she said she was willing to support the clarification of the facts.
Likewise, before the powerful interests
who oppose change for putting your privileges at risk
Bárcena confirmed that he will remain at the head of the agency.
We resist in the past, we will resist in the present, we will resist in the future. No one can break our will to transform what our people long for.
he stressed.
