Alonso Urrutia and Emir Olivares
Newspaper La Jornada
Friday, October 21, 2022, p. 5
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador paused yesterday morning to contemplate the result of the latest survey by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) on the citizen’s perception of insecurity, which he had ordered to put on the screen, a sample of the very high social acceptance
that the armed forces have. He then resumed the microphone:
Have for them to learn! Keep voting in the chambers against the Navy, against the Sedena, the National Guard. It’s what the people think. And those legislators, who do they represent? It is supposed to the town, but no. They represent the groups of created interests, the corrupt ones.
It was the culmination of a long conference that had already ended, when he asked to wait a bit and without question he launched: sit down, right? I want to show off something, I want to throw oil
.
With a smile on his face, satisfied with the high percentages of approval of those who face insecurity, the president highlighted: people are feeling that we are making an effort to guarantee peace
. On the screen was a graph from Inegi, which reported 84 percent acceptance for the Navy, 82 for the Army, and 71.4 for the National Guard.
Present at the conference to render the monthly security report, General Luis Cresencio Sandoval and Admiral Rafael Ojeda, together with the head of Public Security, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, listened to the President’s passionate defense of his performance, who lamented the Wednesday’s raucous debate in the Senate.
For this reason, I do not consider it fair that they treat public servants from the security cabinet rudely.
López Obrador stressed. “Especially when only politics is involved. ‘The militarization’, say the hypocritical conservatives. Who were those who militarized the country? They!”
Without altering the slow tone, the head of the federal Executive expressed: “they were the ones who allowed the torture, the massacres, the ones who gave the order to ‘kill them hot’, and now, like good conservative hypocrites, they have become champions, in human rights defenders. No, the truth is, we are not the same”.
He awarded the opponents to have bad feelings, bad insides
and then, by way of farewell, suggested that just out of respect
it did not show surveys on the social perception of other institutions.
Rosa Icela Rodríguez presented the crime incidence report, according to which, in the first nine months of the year, intentional homicides were reduced by 13.9 percent compared to 2021. She said that this September was the lowest in murders in the last five years, although The report indicates that in August there were 2,618 and the following month, 2,644.
He stated that femicide fell 22.8 percent in that period, but for the second consecutive month the cases rose, going from 59 in July to 71 in August and 78 in September. Fuel theft fell 92 percent in this administration, with which Pemex has achieved savings of 37 thousand 670 million pesos.
Sandoval said that in the last month the armed forces made 749 arrests and seized 683 firearms, 42 grenades, 2,408 magazines, 137,837 cartridges, 569 vehicles, an aircraft and four boats, as well as 3,582 kilograms of methamphetamine. , 3 thousand 325 of cocaine and 320 of fentanyl. In addition, they destroyed 15 methamphetamine laboratories and secured 80 buildings from organized crime.
