The PAN’s deputy coordinator in the Chamber of Deputies, Noemí Luna, accused the strategy of “embracing crime” and allowing the empowerment of drug traffickers of having plunged Mexico into two crises: security and international relations with the United States.
According to the federal representative, the “cursed” legacy of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is taking its toll on his successor, President Claudia Sheinbaum, “especially the failed ‘hugs, not bullets’ strategy.”
In this context, she maintained that due to López Obrador’s failed strategy, this government inherited two crises: security and international relations with the northern country.
“The security crisis not only has Mexico mired in fear, murders, forced disappearances, and under the power of a narco-government; it also has it in a crisis of international and diplomatic relations with the United States,” she added.
Therefore, the Vice Coordinator said that “it is time for the ruling party to defend the sovereignty of Mexicans and not simply remain in a rhetoric and an innocuous constitutional ‘little reform,'” referring to the recently approved constitutional reform on the defense and strengthening of national sovereignty submitted by the Mexican president.
In a statement, PAN representatives Noemí Luna Ayala, Paulina Rubio Fernández, and Blanca Leticia Gutiérrez Garza, whose states are among the most affected by organized crime operations (Zacatecas, Jalisco, and Tamaulipas, respectively), also criticized the Ministry of the Interior, which oversees the National Search Commission, for failing to report on the work being done.
“It was during President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s six-year term that the number of illegal burials discovered has skyrocketed, even during 2020 and 2021, the years with the greatest mobility restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of April 2023, the count indicated that 2,864 clandestine graves, more than half of those registered, were discovered during the current administration; and we still need to know the updated figure,” they stated.
Finally, they called on the Morena government to comply with the obligations established in the Constitution and heed the recommendations of international organizations such as the Office in Mexico of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Source: eleconomista
