From the Editorial
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, November 30, 2025, p. 4
After the blockades that cargo vehicle drivers and farmers maintained this week on federal roads and customs, the head of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Omar García Harfuch, had a meeting with transporters, before whom he promised to improve safety conditions on the country’s roads.
On his social networks, the official noted yesterday that “on instructions from President Claudia Sheinbaum, we held a meeting with representatives of chambers and motor transportation associations, where we reiterated the commitment of the Mexican government to strengthen road safety and protect this sector.”
García Harfuch explained that “in collaboration with the National Guard and the Ministry of the Interior, we agreed to strengthen the coordination mechanisms, follow up on the investigation folders in the prosecutor’s offices and strengthen the operations in the sections with the highest crime incidence.”
According to the secretary, “we will also integrate actions of the National Strategy against Extortion to address complaints about this crime and we will hold continuous meetings to follow up on the agreements and guarantee results.”
In recent weeks, transporters demonstrated with roadblocks to protest the insecurity that prevails on the roads. These mobilizations were joined by farmers dissatisfied with the changes to the Water Law proposed by Sheinbaum, and by producers who denounce conditions of “abandonment to the countryside” and lack of support to correct the drop in prices caused by imports.
In this context, the last camp that farmers from the LeBarón community maintained adjacent to the Zaragoza-Ysleta international bridge, in Ciudad Juárez, was finally removed yesterday, as a result of the progress of negotiations with federal deputies and the Ministry of the Interior.
Meanwhile, after committing to visit the states to continue the dialogue, the Secretary of Agriculture, Julio Berdegué, was yesterday in Chihuahua to meet with agricultural producers and with Governor María Eugenia Campos.
(With information from Jesús Estrada, correspondent)
