The government, open to changes in the minutes of the National Guard, says Adán López

Andrea Becerril and Victor Ballinas

Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, September 28, 2022, p. eleven

The Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López Hernández, expressed in the Senate that the federal government is willing to modify the minute that extends the participation of the armed forces in public security tasks by four years, in order to reach consensus with the opposition. , and denied that he has come blackmail and threat in search of the votes that are missing to approve that reform.

Appearing before that chamber of Congress, within the gloss of the fourth presidential report, López Hernández faced criticism from PAN members and legislators from Movimiento Ciudadano, who demanded that he resign from office to dedicate himself fully to seeking Morena’s candidacy for the Presidency. of the Republic.

Do not eat cravings, the time will come when they see us campaigning, right now I am busy being Secretary of the Interior and I work full time accompanying President Andrés Manuel López Obradorhe pointed.

I do not shy away from questioning, he told PAN member Kenia López Rabadán, who had shouted at him to respond with a yes or a no about the involvement of the Army in the disappearance of the 43 normalistas from Ayotzinapa.

warned him that One swallow does not make a summersince if four military elements are responsible for the tragedy, that does not mean that the armed forces, as an institution, are involved.

The person in charge of the country’s internal policy recognized the work of Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas, who was in charge of the investigation -and yesterday accompanied him to the Senate-, and stressed that the federal government has pledged its word to clarify the case.

Don’t worry, he stressed to the panista, the truth about Ayotzinapa it will be known, as all of us Mexicans are asking for what happened in the ABC nursery to be known, for examplea response that provoked applause from Morena and her allies.

Before, in the second of his three interventions, López Hernández also came out in defense of the military and stressed that he does not share the view of the opponents that there would be a concerted action by the Army in the Ayotzinapa case. Don’t see ghosts where there aren’t anyhe said in relation to statements made by senators from the Plural and National Action Group.

There will be no impunity, he maintained, noting that the dark nights of 1968 and 1971 are far away, and that the armed forces are loyal and institutional in this government, for which they enjoy the acceptance of 80 percent of the citizens, in the case of the Army, 82 percent of the Navy and 75 percent of the National Guard.

possible deal

On the other hand, when responding to the coordinator of the PRD, Miguel Ángel Mancera, who raised the possibility of changes to the minute on the participation until 2028 of the military in the fight against crime, the official opened the door to a possible settlement.

“Of course I would agree that there is a clear, effective, verifiable and precise plan to strengthen the state and municipal police, that they be given a budget for it, under the terms of the seventh transitory (of the 2019 decree that reformed the Constitution to create the National Guard).

I think we should take advantage of the moment and take advantage of the fact that there is a minute here in commissions and maybe we can, from the very fifth transitory, in a first effort, lay the foundationsexposed the head of the Interior.

Later, he added, I believe that a shared responsibility should be assumed and, if necessary, go to a reform to the seventh transitory.

López Hernández stressed that you have to make a budget effort to train state and municipal police, since the latter sometimes they don’t even have a slingshot to confront organized crime.

He commented that he also agrees that the performance of the National Guard be evaluated, since the debate is not whether it is militarized or not, but how much progress it has made.

There is truly no police officer in the country that is so qualified, so trained, with a sense of order. So let’s evaluate. If we have made a mistake, then let us rectify and rectify among allhe indicated.

Without losing the smile…

There were three and a half hours of an appearance in which PAN members, emecistas and senators from the Plural Group were unable, despite the disqualifications, to make the Secretary of the Interior lose his smile.

He refuted the panista Xóchitl Gálvez, who took out a cardboard with the legend AMLO worked with Echevería. He told her that this was false and that López Obrador was in high school at the time.

The PAN members did not like that the official took at least 15 minutes to rise to the presidency of the Senate, because he stopped to greet a good part of the legislators from all the political forces who approached him and even talked with him, as It was the case of the PRI member Claudia Ruiz Massieu.

Even the first thing he did before the plenary was apologize for the unintentional delaybecause, recounted, Xóchitl Gálvez He already told me that it was going to take me longer to greet everyone than in the gloss.