Nestor Jimenez and Alonso Urrutia
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, February 8, 2023, p. 9
After the publication of the Corruption Perception Index corresponding to 2022, of the Transparency International organization, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador expressed distrust with the reports of these groups, since during the governments neoliberals
they were silent before the acts of corruption, and even gave them good grades in this line.
I do not trust that institution, because it was one of those that kept quiet or qualified neoliberal governments very well; those supposedly anti-corruption institutes, neither the international nor the national ones
pointed out when asked about the balance of the group, which indicates that the country remains for the third year without movement in the measurement.
The president compared said organization with the one headed by businessman Claudio X. González, and highlighted: they have no moral authority. So, I don’t think they have an objective vision of what is happening in the country.
. Instead, he endorsed that in his government the fundamental purpose is to end corruption, and we’ve done it like it hasn’t been done in decades
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He stressed that Mexican values and culture are the key elements so that the levels of drug use in countries like the United States are not recorded, and announced that campaigns aimed at young people will be strengthened to combat the use of these substances, especially of fentanyl.
During the morning conference at the National Palace, the president presented two of the videos that his administration has used for this purpose. Why don’t you put the message where they go like zombies, who even got offended in the United States?
requested, without detailing who were the ones who claimed for this type of promotional.
He anticipated that for the new campaign, priority will be given to the spaces that young people see the most, and the resources that are required will be invested.
