Angels Cruz and Emir Olivares
The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, August 7, 2024, p. 12
In a new defense of the Army, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador affirmed that there is no evidence that this organization bears any responsibility in the disappearance of the students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School.
He rejected that his opinions were influenced by the military: No. I am independent. My master is the people of Mexico. I cannot lie, steal or betray the people. How can I lie, saying without having the proof, so far, that it was the Army?
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Earlier, he stressed that campaigns against the militia have been carried out from abroad. In the past, agencies and the US government They acted without any shame in our country and went so far as to say that they did not trust the Army, and that there was interference from international organizations.
in national territory.
Order has already been put in place, the president said at the conference at the National Palace and We are helping in the fight against drug trafficking because we are neighbors, friends and above all for humanitarian reasons.
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López Obrador reiterated that the main problem in the United States is drug use. It’s not what happened yesterday
he said in relation to the crisis in the financial system. They can overcome that relatively easily.
but drugs are a very serious problem in that country.
On another topic, he reported that this weekend the penultimate joint tour with Claudia Sheinbaum, virtual president-elect, will take place through four states in the north of the Republic. They will be in Chihuahua, to see a matter of the Mexican Social Security Institute, he said, but no meeting with the PAN governor Maru Campos is scheduled on the agenda.
López Obrador added that from August 16 to 18, the tour with his successor will be completed through the 32 federal entities.
