Fabiola Martinez and Roberto Garduno
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, April 13, 2022, p. 4
Faced with insecurity and violence, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador endorsed his government’s strategy to pacify the country, even when the route is longer to achieve the objectives. It may take us longer to pacify the country, but the safest formula is to attend to the bottom. For example, do not forget young people, guarantee them study and work spaces to prevent them from being hooked by crime in exchange for money, fame or cheap luxury.
he pointed.
During the report 100 Days: Fourth Year of Government, the president asserted that If we had not acted as we did from the beginning, with the welfare programs, we might not have had even the slight decrease in homicides now, which year after year increased until reaching unfortunate historical figures.
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The Executive affirmed that thanks to the convictions of his government, and the perseverance of how to deal with the problem of insecurity, little by little progress is being made in the purpose of living free from fear and fear.
warned that The real confrontation with the gang leaders, the real one, the deep one, is to prevent them from taking the young people and leaving the capos alone with their lieutenants and hit men facing the authorities, but without a reserve army to commit crimes, take them away their bases, take away from the young
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He then reported that fuel theft had been reduced by 95 percent so far during his administration; homicides, 3.5 percent; vehicle theft, 40 percent, and kidnapping, 41 percent, among other indicators.
He mentioned that of the 12 crimes considered high impact, only three have increased: femicide, 15 percent; extortion, 40 percent, and individual public transportation robbery, 22 percent.
He stressed that all this effort has been carried out without human rights violations, without the involvement of federal forces in massacres and without committing torture, forced disappearances, without extrajudicial executions, as it happened before
. He expressed his fraternal recognition to the armed forces
and to the value of their loyalty.
Thank you, Admiral Rafael Ojeda Durán; Thank you, General Luis Cresencio Sandoval González; thank you, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, thank you also to all of you, the members of the cabinet and the institutions of the government of the Republic who have behaved up to the circumstances
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