▲ The president delivered 46 thousand Welfare cards to women between 60 and 64 years old in Huauchinango.Photo Presidency
E. Núñez and R. Montoya
La Jornada de Oriente and Correspondent
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, January 5, 2025, p. 3
Let no one make fun of Mexicans, because we are the hardest workers in the world.
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said yesterday, who once again demanded respect for her countrymen in the United States.
During the delivery of the first 46,000 Welfare cards to women aged 60 to 64 in Huauchinango, Puebla, the president alluded to the comments of Donald Trump, future president of the United States, against Mexican migrants; He stressed that no one should mock the countrymen because they come to that nation to work.
There they run the fields, the construction, the services, and if they migrated it was because they are brave people who went to look for better conditions for their families.
He highlighted that the year that ended broke a record in the amount of remittances that Mexicans sent from the neighboring country to the north.
For us they are heroes and heroines of the country, we will always defend them. Mexico is respected, because we are a free, sovereign and independent country, and we are also a cultural power like very few others due to our origin, our history, and because we are a great fraternal people.
he stressed.
At the beginning of her speech, at the event held at the fairgrounds of this municipality, the President recalled that on June 1, Mexico will become the first country in the world to elect judges by direct vote.
He ruled out that the opposition and intellectuals claim that it is an authoritarian practice, because It is the people who are going to decide
.
He highlighted that in February the universal scholarship program for secondary school students will also begin, and over the course of his six-year term the support will also reach primary and preschool students.
A third program that will begin this year is House-to-House Health, aimed at older adults, who will receive care from doctors and nurses, who will take glucose samples and measure their blood pressure, and if they require medication, they will be channeled to the sector. health.
Tula thermoelectric plant will be converted to natural gas
Later he was in the municipality of Tepeapulco, Hidalgo, where he announced that among his government’s projects for the entity is to reduce the pollution caused by the Fernando Ríos thermoelectric plant.
In the Sports Unit of the district, in front of nearly 7 thousand attendees. The president addressed the Morenoist governor Julio Menchaca Salazar: There in Tula, which unfortunately is characterized by being one of the most polluted cities in Mexico, I am going to announce it once and for all, Julio, you don’t know: the thermoelectric plant that is there, which uses fuel oil, we are going to convert it to natural gas. This year we are going to start with that project
.
He also said that on the property where Felipe Calderón was going to install a refinery, and where he only built an incomplete wall
an IMSS clinic will be created, he said, a circular economy space
.
He explained that it is a very ambitious and important project of his six-year term, which consists of converting garbage into charcoal
. In addition, he said that construction of the train that goes from Mexico City to Pachuca will begin in April.
At the event – to which he arrived two hours late due to a vehicle accident – he handed out cards from the support program for people over 65 years of age, from the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo.
