U.S. legislators visit Guanajuato, and the mayor said that he asked them to withdraw the red alert in the state due to violence.
The mayor of San Miguel Allende, Mauricio Trejo Pureco, hinted that the United States is considering taking action against governments infiltrated by organized crime.
After the visit of a delegation of U.S. legislators to this city, the mayor attributed the violence to the links between politicians and crime groups.
“Violence at this time is unleashed because there are many governments where organized crime is already infiltrated. And that’s where we have to start, and that’s where I saw them (U.S. legislators) with the very clear idea of whether to start looking at and taking action against governments that could be infiltrated by organized crime. I believe that this should not be taken lightly,” he said in an interview.
On Sunday, a delegation of eight U.S. legislators, Republicans and Democrats, led by Michael McCaul, representative for Texas and president of the Mexico-United States Interparliamentary Group, visited the state.
Trejo Pureco recalled that more than 16,000 Americans live in San Miguel de Allende and that 85% of the city’s income comes from tourism, so he asked the U.S. deputies to withdraw the red alert issued by that country for violence in Guanajuato, which is still in force, so that its citizens do not dress and invest in the state due to violence.
“Let’s start collaborating, and we strongly ask you to move what you have to move, for what? So that the red alert that he finds in Guanajuato is removed,” he said.
The mayor said that this alert could be imposed regionally, in the areas that are considered more violent, but not in the entire state.
Source: Latin Us
