translated from Spanish: AMLO promises to clean the country of corruption and impunity

Veracruz-this Government will ensure justice and will end the corruption, impunity and the bad legacy of past administrations, said yesterday the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to condemn the events in Minatitlan on Friday.” It hurt much find out and have news as these despicable murders of Minatitlan. All this fruit rotten, everything that is inherited from the implementation of an unpopular economic policies and sellout in where the only thing that mattered to them was loot, steal. The Government was not made to serve the people, was converted into a facilitator for corruption”.
We still have to face that inertia, that bad inheritance, the rotten fruit, this mess you left us, but we will clean the country, is it going to end corruption, is it going to end impunity, and there will be justice.

During the commemoration by the 105th Anniversary of the patriotic defense of the port of Veracruz, the President recalled four interventions of the port and the defense that ancestors and national heroes made to maintain national sovereignty.

He stressed that the fourth invasion of Veracruz on 21 April 1914 took place motivated by the greed of foreign petroleum and natural resources.” Again the U.S. Government sent a fleet to take the port and the town of Veracruz, in general, to Spanish foreign merchants, and of course the army and Navy, defended Veracruz. At that time our country was facing the revolution, mostly from the cowardly assassination of Francisco I. Madero, the Apostle of democracy (…) this also led to the invasion of 1914 “, added the President. He highlighted the unanimous approval of the reform of the Constitution to involve the armed forces in order to calm to the country after the creation of the National Guard with training in the proper use of force and human rights.

He stressed that to protect Mexicans, 230 thousand elements of the army and more than 60 thousand of the Secretary of Navy and Federal Police will appear in all the national territory. Accompanied by his spouse, Beatriz Gutiérrez Mueller and members of his Cabinet, indicated that opportunities for work, education and development are the basis of the security strategy. As part of that policy, he pointed out that it has commenced the distribution of the ‘integral wellness programs’ support. As part of the ceremony was held the imposition of award to the outstanding perseverance first class Admiral José Rafael Ojeda Durán, Secretary of Navy and Admiral Jose Antonio Sierra Rodriguez.



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