La Jornada - Without violence, 50% of the country, assures AMLO after events in Chiapas and Edomex

2022-06-16 11:39:47 By : Ms. Lisa Shao

The violence registered on Tuesday in Chiapas and the state of Mexico was due, in the first case, to the dispute over a market in San Cristóbal de las Casas with "shock groups very close to organized crime," and in the second, to a confrontation over the aggression suffered by the ministerial police when they were carrying out an arrest warrant, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.He considered that he should continue the security strategy, although he admitted that “you cannot have results overnight”.He ratified the validity of his policy on the matter, rejecting the versions of US authorities that 35 percent of the Mexican territory is dominated by organized crime.Half of the country "does not have a problem of violence", since 49 percent of the homicides are concentrated in six states (Michoacán, Guanajuato, the state of Mexico, Jalisco, Sonora and Baja California).In contrast, he affirmed, Sinaloa reduced its incidence (between January and April it registered 151).-There is only one band.Most of the homicides, 75 percent, have to do with clashes between antagonistic groups.There are only a few, for example the one in the state of Mexico, which interferes a lot with the population due to extortion, to dominate markets, to collect floor fees, but in general, the large organizations have to do with drug trafficking.“There are places where a strong gang predominates and there are no clashes between groups, and that is why there are no homicides.”The president exemplified with the case of Michoacán, where the proliferation of gangs, which he estimated at least 10, has triggered violence and homicides, which in the first four months reached a thousand.After describing the mechanics of his strategy (daily evaluation, greater coordination and intelligence), he acknowledged that “in recent days there has been more violence in terms of homicide, but, imagine, since we arrived, kidnapping has been reduced by 75 percent.Why does one go down and another not?He is closely linked to the criminal groups that have been sown since the neoliberal period.They are not new, they are the same ones that come from Calderón and have been strengthened in recent times”.Derived from the questions about the events of Tuesday in Chiapas and the state of Mexico, he disqualified the conservative views that fight for a policy of confronting evil with evil, and inevitably came to what he considers the origin of the situation he is currently facing. : Calderon's strategy.“Imagine that President Calderón's right arm, the one in charge of dealing with the problem of insecurity and violence, is in jail because he sold protection to a group.In addition, the mistake, which in politics is like a crime, of declaring a war without having any idea of ​​anything, without a diagnosis of what was happening;nothing more to gain legitimacy, thinking that with that he would look good abroad and the rights would applaud him, 'this one does have pants.'He got us into trouble by foolishly clubbing the hornet's nest."On the other hand, he reported that the Secretary of the Navy will report on the theft of containers in Colima, which did not occur in the facilities guarded by the sailors, but in neighboring land.The content will be detailed because it was said that they had gold, silver and diamonds.