translated from Spanish: We Return THE DEBATE

We’re back. After having enjoyed our holiday period, we return today to continue with what we like the most. Did he understand “The Chemist”? Yesterday, State Government and Municipality took a step forward. They jointly announced a package of works. And the important thing is not the $70 million that will be invested. The important thing is the messages that are sent and that we hope will really understand by Mayor Luis Guillermo Benítez. And if not, then this is definitely lost. Everyone’s known inability of “The Chemist” has led Mazatlan to stagnation. And to the risk that comes with not knowing how to govern a municipality that left it transformed. A municipality destined to become one of the main tourist destinations in the country. And that’s not what “The Chemist” understood. At least until yesterday it was. Benitez, with yesterday, he must have realized that the Federation will not come to bring it forward. That your natural, logical and real ally is the state. That is why, yesterday, the 35 million pesos raised by the Municipality, the State turned them into 70. Governor Quirino Ordaz Coppel met with the mayor. First at breakfast. Then in the Hall of Cabildo, where precisely announced the package of works. Quirino gave him a chair of how to do politics. Respecting ideologies, partisan issues, personal interests and putting above the common interest. The smart thing is not to fight and denoy everyone. The important thing is that someone who governs becomes a facilitator of the actions that will come to benefit everyone. The other thing is simple bluffing. The other makes a chichal mayor see, limited and with no idea how to do things… Well. I hope you understood “The Chemist”… For your sake. Protest and demand. On behalf of the Mazatlan Collective of Journalists, Raquel Zapién gave Governor Quirino Ordaz Coppel a detailed account of the assaults on journalists committed by the Municipal Government, headed by Luis Guillermo Benítez. First, at the press conference and then short with the governor, the journalists informed Quirino of the real risks of the mayor’s ongoing verbal assaults and that they can lead to an atmosphere of hostility and violence against Communicators. At the press conference held in the lobbying room, the journalists insisted with the governor that he set a position on the mayor’s actions and the assaults launched against reporters. It was logical that the governor would not speak ill of the mayor, who had him on the side. More than minutes earlier, the Ordaz Coppel announced the works package, had said that he was working with “his friend” the mayor on a joint program. The message was given. But it wasn’t understood. When he was insisted on setting a position, Ordaz Coppel what he said was that he was responding for his actions. It was respectful of the autonomy of the municipality. And that he’s never had any difference with journalists. It was the logical thing to do. How can we speak ill of the one who invited him to his house (palace) and held him aside? Another thing would have been that the governor was sued some time after the event to raise the feelings of the journalists in a short and direct way.



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