Sheinbaum and AMLO close ranks with the governor of Sinaloa before El Mayo

Emir Olivares Alonso

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The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, August 11, 2024, p. 4

Culiacán, Sin., In a direct allusion to the publication of the alleged testimony of Ismael The May Zambada, co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asserted that There is no coincidence in the circumstances surrounding his capture.

The visit of the president and his virtual successor, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, to the state was marked by the alleged letter from the drug lord, released yesterday morning, in which he implicates Governor Rubén Rocha Moya in the events linked to his arrest and transfer to the United States.

“There is no coincidence. Yesterday (Friday) in the morning we were asking for information, and at noon the United States ambassador (Ken Salazar) revealed the version they have of these events here in Sinaloa, and today this letter appears (from The May). And it turns out that we are here, in Culiacán; so we are going to talk about the issue right away,” said the president.

Both López Obrador and Sheinbaum supported and expressed their confidence in the governor of Sinaloa, who minutes before, in the same act, rejected not only his participation in the capture of the capo, but even being summoned to a supposed meeting to resolve the conflict at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, to which The May He said he had attended and from where he had been taken against his will to Texas.

The head of the Executive, the next president and the governor led the inauguration of the IMSS-Bienestar Dr. Bernardo J. Gastélum General Hospital in this capital.

In this context, the President predicted that It’s not going to stopbecause there is anger over his project to transform both the conservative opposition in Mexico and some sectors of Washington. There is this temptation to want to stick your nose in everywhere..

From this land, stigmatized for decades for being the cradle of the criminal organization founded by The May and his former partner Joaquin El Chapo Guzmán, López Obrador celebrated that the governor came forward and did not let even a day go by to clarify the allegations.

“We have complete confidence in Maestro Rocha (…) And it’s great that the situation has been made clear, where you were and that you were never invited to any event. It’s as clear as water!”

Quoting his fellow countryman, singer Chico Che, the president predicted that these situations will not stop. It will not stop, because they are upset, they do not like the transformation, neither those inside, the conservatives, nor some who were badly accustomed to feeling like they owned the world.. Although there are good relations with the White House, he noted that sometimes There is this temptation to want to command everywhere, to stick one’s nose in everywhere..

He stressed that previous rulers could be put in the dock because they established complicity with organized crime and white-collar criminals, but today things are different. We have moral and political authority.

Before, Sheinbaum expressed confidence in the Sinaloa governor in light of the information released in the morning that shook Mexico and abroad.

We will continue to support the governor of Sinaloa and his people. Whoever wants to stigmatize this beautiful state, should stick to its history.

The future federal president stressed that the citizens of this entity are men and women good and working.

Before the event, both Sheinbaum and López Obrador agreed in brief interviews that Rocha’s position should be awaited.

This visit took place in the context of the ninth joint working tour that both are carrying out throughout the country as part of what they have called transition on the ground.

The future president highlighted the relevance of these trips and thanked the enormous generosity of the President, then He has taken the time to tell me about each state, the progress report, what lies ahead and the greatness of our movement..

López Obrador again stressed that he feels satisfied and leaves calmly because the woman to whom he will hand over the baton on October 1st She is an incorruptible woman.

Tearful farewell

In the morning, the ISSSTE Hospital Clinic was inaugurated in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, where the future president pledged to rescue and strengthen the country’s public health services.

At this event, Governor Víctor Manuel Castro was moved, even to tears, when he said a sort of farewell to López Obrador.

Seeing that she had interrupted his speech, the president immediately stood up from his place, took Sheinbaum by the arm and both went to where the state leader was to console him. She even dried his tears.