In addition to the neglect that Governor Cuitláhuac García himself acknowledged with Radio y Televisión de Veracruz (RTV), there will be an irregular management of its budget. *** This Thursday, the head of the Superior Audit Body (Orfis), Delia González Cobos confirmed that there are “observations” in the 2023 Public Account due to alleged irregularities in the television station’s public spending. *** The auditor avoided giving details on the matter because they still have to present the reports to Congress, but recalled that there are also observations for said public body for the 2022 fiscal year. *** “It is up to us to review the spending exercise. We already have a review that we did of this exercise and that determined some issues that will be seen at the time, but I cannot tell you in advance,” she said. *** RTV workers decided to demonstrate and suspend work, to demand better working conditions. In a recent meeting with director Víctor Cisneros, they shouted at him to return the resources that were destined for the station. *** Just a few weeks before the end of the current state administration, RTV workers are asking for the dismissal of the director and a reconsideration of the budget allocated to that organization. *** Most likely, this conflict will end up being addressed by the next governor. The current public servants are already packing their bags.
After the kidnapping, first and murder, shortly after, of the married couple Santiago Rodríguez Navarro, a retired employee, and Emma Lucía Bandala Herrera, the journalist Héctor de Mauleón dedicated a couple of articles to refer to the growing criminal violence in the state of Veracruz and, especially, in Poza Rica and surrounding municipalities.
After describing the ordeal that Santiago and Emma’s children went through, the journalist took up an expression of Governor Cuitláhuac García:
- The governor of Veracruz, Cuitláhuac García, has declared that he cannot give any progress on the case “because there (in Poza Rica) the situation is delicate.”
“In Poza Rica, the Veracruz municipality hardest hit by insecurity and violence, the situation is indeed delicate. This municipality is mired in a spiral of kidnappings, executions, dismemberments, extortions, robberies and extortion.”
But he warned that it was not the only “red flag” of insecurity in this state:
“With Coatzacoalcos – where yesterday a criminal group left a narco banner in a primary school to demand that parents pay two thousand pesos per boy or girl because ‘you know there are accidents’ –, Xalapa, Córdoba, Papantla and Martínez de la Torre – all under the Morena government – are at the head of the crime rate and it is the epicenter of a fight between the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel and an association of cartels known as Los Tercios that have joined together to expel it: the Sombra Group, the Zetas Viejas Escuela and Gente Nueva.”
And he also recalled events that impacted the country and that occurred in Poza Rica:
“Last year, 18 dismembered corpses packed in plastic were found in refrigerators in two buildings in Poza Rica. The Jalisco Cartel had threatened the Sombra Group and circulated a video in which armed hitmen from their organization walked around the city in broad daylight: ‘Here we are defending the plaza, patrolling day and night,’ said one of them. Human remains in bags had appeared on the public road and there had even been an attack with grenades thrown from a car at the municipal command post (they did not explode).”
And he again pointed out the silence of the state authorities:
“Also on that occasion the governor refused to provide information: he knew what use they were going to give to the dismembered and packaged bodies, he said, but he said that his government would not reveal anything about the matter. As a result of these events, a military deployment, or rather an impressive military parade, covered the streets of Poza Rica. Meanwhile, the dispute ordered from prison between two criminal bosses, El Coco (Cartel Jalisco) and El Goyo (Los Tercios) continued to cover northern Veracruz with blood.”
And there was more:
“As a result of this dispute, 15 dismembered bodies packed in ice chests were abandoned in two pickup trucks on the Mexico-Tuxpan highway at the end of last January. Four of them were women. The Jalisco Cartel took credit for this horror and asked its rivals not to send ‘more Guatemalans’ to fight them.”
Why all this recounting?
It turns out that this Thursday a strong operation was deployed to rescue the traffic delegate of Poza Rica, Julio Ignacio Vega Domínguez, who had been “kidnapped” hours before when he arrived at his offices.
The municipal official was rescued in a house in the Santa Emilia neighborhood. In that area, several witnesses observed that two subjects were detained by Public Security elements and at least one truck and a motorcycle were seized.
In other buildings in Poza Rica, the entry of police elements was reported as part of this operation to locate the traffic delegate. In addition, checkpoints were installed for private vehicles and public transportation in different sectors of the city.
Just in my collaboration yesterday, I made reference to the inability of the state police to stop extortions and homicides in the extreme south, in Coatzacoalcos and neighboring municipalities.
Things are not better in the north.
Epilogue.
Ah! But surely some will think that in the center of the state, in the state capital, for example, these things do not happen. *** Well, they are wrong. This Thursday a man was assaulted near the JV tower in Xalapa and they robbed him of a million pesos. ***The incident occurred around 2 p.m., at a location near Plaza Las Américas and the Veracruz Education Secretariat (SEV). ***The police report indicates that the victim had gone to the shopping center around noon to withdraw a large amount of money and then went to the JV Tower, where he was assaulted.
Source: imagendeveracruz
