translated from Spanish: I fulfilled my duty to combat crime: Felipe Calderón

Morelia, Michoacán.- The former president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa claimed to have fulfilled his duty to combat crime and protect citizens, during his federal term from 2006 to 2012.
“I did my duty, those who have already declared peace to explain to me whether the problem was to face crime and now that they do not face it have more dead than before, I do not see where their logic goes,” the former panista questioned when referring to the criticism of the war cont drug trafficking that he declared in 2009.
Prior to the presentation of his book entitled “The challenges we face”, Calderón Hinojosa pointed out the inaction of the current government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the face of organized crime, considering that if crime is not fought head-on, the groups will be confronted Grow.
“Organized crime has the component of territorial dominance, which it did not have before; now they don’t just drug, they now extort, they kidnap, they charge floor duty and if you don’t fight you grow up, it’s a virus, it’s a cancer.”
During his lecture, the former panist explained that crime groups have evolved, as in the last century drug traffickers sought to control drug-selling routes to the United States, now nargonudists intend to control territories, to control territories, to control territories, to what needs the subjugation of police forces and thousands of people for point-of-sale surveillance.
Therefore, he noted that rather than putting hope in the National Guard, the reconstruction of municipal and state institutions is required, since Mexico’s problems in the issue of insecurity are now much more complex.
Finally, the former federal representative denied wanting to be an opposition, but if he criticises political parties of opposition to the federal government, he believes they are not doing their job.
“You have to organize the public to do what the parties aren’t doing: to be a counterweight to power.”

Original source in Spanish