This weekend, the last changes of government will begin after the elections of June 2. In Veracruz, Jalisco, Chiapas and Puebla, the replacements will be from the same party that currently governs: in three entities, Morena will continue and in one, Movimiento Ciudadano.
In all cases, the outgoing administrations leave a legacy of violence and unprecedented disappearances.
In Veracruz, the increase in drug dealing, disappearances and homicides, in addition to the persecution of the press, is the balance left by the Morena member Cuitláhuac García. While in Jalisco, the six-year term of Movimiento Ciudadano with Enrique Alfaro closes with a forensic crisis and nearly 6,700 people reported missing and not located. The change of governor in Veracruz and Jalisco will be on December 1 and 6.
Chiapas changes government in the midst of an outbreak of violence: the fight for territory between criminal groups has led to massacres, and it also drags along problems such as poverty and the crisis on the southern border. In Puebla, the first Morena government closes with 740 disappearances registered in the last 23 months, a similar number to what was registered in six years, from 2017 to 2022. In Chiapas the change will be on December 8 and in Puebla on the 14th.
According to experts consulted by Latinus, after six years of applying the failed strategy of “hugs, not bullets” of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the incoming governments must prioritize the issue of security and, now yes, confront organized crime.
Source: latinus.us
