Alma E. Muñoz
The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, September 18, 2024, p. 8
President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum announced that she will merge Segalmex with Diconsa to create Alimentos para el Bienestar, as part of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader).
He stated that he is list
to assume the Presidency of the Republic and announced that this Sunday he will attend a little while in the morning
to the National Congress of Morena, where the party’s leadership will be renewed.
In a press conference, he said that this Friday he will go with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and governors to the Mayan Train, and that in the last days of the president’s government We will be together almost every day
to accompany him to several openings, until Sunday 29th.
She will not be at the President’s last morning press conference on Monday 30th, and on October 2nd she will begin her conferences. But she already has, almost almost
your agenda for the month. What we are going to present in the morning, up to the events we are going to have and the tours
accurate.
Among other things, he said, on October 4 he will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the promulgation of the Constitution of 1824 and the following day he will attend the inauguration of Clara Brugada as head of the Government of Mexico City, in the local Congress.
Sheinbaum reported that Food for Wellbeing will be headed by María Luisa Albores, current Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, while the director of Segalmex, Leonel Cota, will be undersecretary in Sader. Columba López, director of the Commission of Natural Resources and Rural Development in Mexico City, will coordinate territorial programs.
The new area, he said, will operate guaranteed prices and will link small agricultural producers – of coffee, beans, honey, cocoa – with Diconsa stores, which in his government will be called Tiendas del Bienestar. Also with Sembrando Vida, so that you can have a marketing channel
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She anticipated that as president she will not make many trips abroad. to some international events that we consider important
but Our responsibilities are here
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He is considering whether he can attend the G-20 meeting in Brazil on November 18 and 19, the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, a day later, and a visit by the president of Germany around that time. However, he said that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will attend his inauguration.
He said that with López Obrador he has done an extraordinary, historic, and very generous tour
because it allowed him, for example, on September 13, in the commemoration of the Boy Heroes, be with him in the same vehicle
. He said he has learned I have been talking a lot with the president, listening to him, seeing the programs that are moving forward from his perspective, what is pending and, above all, that the people see that it is the same project: continuity with my style, with my project, but continuity of the Fourth Transformation, (although) we are not the same person.
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