Violence in the country is the result of more than 30 years of neglect: AMLO

Emir Olivares and Nestor Jimenez

Newspaper La Jornada
Friday, October 7, 2022, p. 5

Faced with the recent massacre perpetrated in the country, this time in San Miguel Totolapan, Guerrero, which left 20 people murdered, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador remains convinced of maintaining his strategy against insecurity.

My opinion is the same as always (…) we must continue with the same because it gives results. They are there!pointed out by showing again the official statistics that refer to the fact that since last year the increase in the incidence of intentional homicides began to be contained.

He pointed out that events such as the one in Guerrero or the murder of local deputy Gabriela Marín Sánchez, in Cuernavaca, Morelos – also on Wednesday – are a consequence of the remnants of more than 30 years of abandonment to the town; we were in frank decline in everything.

In the morning, the president maintained that all the helicopter crashes of the armed forces, such as the one recorded in the context of the operation in which drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quintero was arrested, were due to accidents, not to acts of violence.

He acknowledged that his administration has had a hard time beginning to reduce homicide rates. It took us two years just to stop the upward trend. Two years!, he pointed. The strategy to address the causes of violence is workingratified.

Supported by graphs, he presented figures from 2015 in which the growth curve of this crime was observed. He said that in 2018, the last year of Peña Nieto’s six-year term, 36,685 homicides were perpetrated; a year later, already in his administration, it was similar: 36 thousand 661; in 2020 the figure rose to 36 thousand 773, more than in 2018, two years! And it’s until 2021 (which starts to go down)Well, there were 35 thousand 625, and so far this year 20 thousand 722 have been reported.

The undersecretary of Public Security, Ricardo Mejía Berdeja, pointed out that the first inquiries about the acts of violence in San Miguel Totolapan indicate that they occurred due to the dispute over the plaza between two criminal groups: The Tequila Makers Y The Michoacán family.

Regarding the murder of the deputy from Morelos, he indicated that the possible motive is political revenge.

As part of the cases presented in the Zero Impunity section, which is exposed every Thursday morning and reports on the arrests and sentences of murderers, femicides, kidnappers and members of organized crime, among others, the undersecretary highlighted the link to the process and house arrest for attempted murder against Daniel Tabe, father of the mayor of Miguel Hidalgo, Mauricio Tabe, who a few days ago threatened and threatened a public servant with a knife.

It also reported that the case of Debanhi Escobar – a young woman who disappeared in Nuevo León on April 9 and whose body was found days later – is in the hands of the Special Prosecutor for Crimes of Violence against Women and Trafficking in Persons, after the The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) attracted the investigation.

López Obrador reported that the FGR is investigating the case of the crashes of the armed forces helicopters. About the of BlackHawk of the Navy, after the operation to capture Caro Quintero, ruled out that it was due to an attack by organized crime, but rather that the black box He verified that it was because the fuel ran out.

He regretted that in this case, in a very vile manner, in the information media, that is why I speak of the times of scoundrels and the season of buzzards, there was talk, it was even said that it was due to austerity, because they did not have resources, that we did not give them for fuel. Of that ilk are the conservatives.