Elio Henriquez
Correspondent
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, January 9, 2025, p. 3
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chis., In security We are going to take the bull by the horns, because we are not going to allow disdain, laziness or apathy to prevail over all of us together.
stated the Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez,
When leading the presentation of the peace-building strategy in this city, which was attended by members of the federal cabinet, including the head of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Omar García Harfuch, he added that We are here on instructions from President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo to fundamentally and without pretexts address the problem of violence in some areas of Chiapas
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He assured: The three levels of government work to address the causes of violence and down, in depth, house by house, neighborhood by neighborhood
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During the event held in the cathedral square, in the center of San Cristóbal, he reiterated: We are here to commit the Mexican State, social organizations, organizations like the Church with which we will be working together. It’s about adding everyone. Colors or religions do not matter; it doesn’t matter at all
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Rodríguez insisted that We must join everyone, because the most important thing is the peace and tranquility of the people of Chiapas. Do not doubt that, and that is why the President, every day at 6 in the morning, is already, it must be said, snapping her fingers and demanding at the head of the security cabinet that she heads.
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Before hundreds of people who attended the event, he explained that You are already seeing it, there is a parade of Secretaries of State who have come to this microphone to compromise the determined work of each of the agencies of the Mexican government headed by the President
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He stated that they attended to address fundamentally and without pretexts the problem of peace in some areas of Chiapas. To join and work together with the state government of Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar
who yesterday celebrated 30 days at the head of the Executive Branch of the entity.
After a month, he added, We are already seeing coordination with the head of the SSPC, Omar García Harfuch, and the armed forces. Coordination between state and municipal police is very important and as the President has told us: zero corruption, zero complicity and zero impunity.
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He highlighted the work carried out by the head of the Executive Branch and all those who work in the cabinet. “Here I see many who are participating and we will pay attention to the causes at fairs and in peace caravans.
In everything that is done around the issue of peace because not everything is solved with police, but with programs, support and education. We will work on voluntary disarmament with the Secretariat of National Defense. We will be in church atriums throughout the country ensuring that there are no weapons
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The Secretary of Education, Mario Delgado, reported for his part that through the program the school is ours, this year 8,706 six basic level schools will be responded to in Chiapas and for the first time 594 properties and infrastructure of high schools and education will be served. higher with a total investment of 2,862 million pesos.
García Harfuch stated, meanwhile, that This peacebuilding and security strategy is distinguished mainly because it is directed every day by the President of Mexico
and stressed that Crime cannot be reduced if we do not arrest those who commit it.
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Held: If we do not strengthen the security and justice institutions in the entities, it will be difficult for us to have the results we want.
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