by the El Reportero‘s wire services
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced today that the National Guard already has 70,000 elements and could reach 140,000.
He assured that tranquility is already being guaranteed where this new body operates, but recognized that there is still a long way to go in order to achieve the main objective of pacifying the nation, for which it is necessary to recruit more personnel.
At his morning press conference at the National Palace, which was attended by Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval, he said the plan to strengthen the National Guard to guarantee public security is going well.
This, he said, is accompanied by resources to grow and train the elements and build the military facilities because the Federal Police did not have them and its members were staying in hotels and makeshift camps, and now the necessary resources are being obtained to house the National Guard throughout the country.
Sandoval reported that the facilities are being built at an accelerated pace and six more will be inaugurated in the next three days.
The prosecutor’s office must resolve this and see if it applies the new legislation within the existing legal framework, which considers electoral fraud, corruption and impunity a serious crime, and if it is defined in the electoral law.
He clarified that his government does not intend to affect anyone or any political party in particular, because ‘what we want is an end to corruption and not to have impunity, to purify the public life of the country because a lot of damage was done to it by corruption.’
Mexico gives Germany business, investment in southern region
Representatives of the governments of Mexico’s southern-southeastern states offered German businessmen a series of businesses and investments in projects of the interoceanic corridor and the Mayan Train, the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Thursday.
A press release states that business opportunities also extend to regional plans focused on strategic productive sectors, and other comprehensive development programs executed by the government.
The offer was carried out during a meeting between the Mexican-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (CAMEXA) with representatives of the governments of Campeche, Chiapas, Guerrero, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan and Quintana Roo, convened by the Mexican Association of Economic Development Secretaries.
The meeting was sponsored and coordinated by the Directorate-General for Political Coordination at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (SRE).
The agency reported in the statement that this region accounts for 55 percent of the National Port System, provides 19 percent of the country’s GDP, has 28 percent of airports and 66 percent of water resources.
