translated from Spanish: Figures and actions from the AMLO Report that cannot be verified

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador presumed during the message for his First Government Report the scope of some of its priority programs or mentioned that the Army no longer acts with excessive violence. 
But all these figures and actions cannot be verified, even if the federal government is asked directly.
“The requested information was not located,” “no information” or disaggregated data are some of the responses that various federal agencies have given to requests for information. 
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In addition, there are no standards of public beneficiaries, which allow to verify that such persons exist or live in the reported addresses.
Here are some examples of figures and sayings that can’t be checked and that the president stood out in his message.
The scope of Young people building the future
The president said: “The Young People Building the Future program is a reality. To this day, 930,000 young people are working as apprentices.”
However you can’t check.
The Young People Building the Future public information platform has incomplete information that makes it impossible to verify the actual number of people who are receiving training in a company, organization, or public institution.
The same Secretariat of Labour and Social Welfare has explained that the number of more than 900 thousand beneficiaries reported on the platform corresponds to young people linked to some work center, that is, who have already chosen where to train and the company has already accepted them , but it cannot be checked if they are already at the training site.
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Animal Político requested the unit, since last March, the database with a registration for each fellow, which included the name of the company in which it was training, the area, the activity it performed, its age, gender, educational level, municipality and State. But The STPS did not deliver the information arguing that it did not have all that disaggregated data.
Pension delivery for older adults
The representative stated that: “Eight million older adults, 94% of the total, have received their pension of two thousand 550 bimonthly pesos.”
But this you can’t check either.
Animal Político requested information, via Transparency, from the Ministry of Welfare on the number of older adults who were already receiving their pension. 
The unit’s response, of 2 May 2019, was the numbers of the twin-December 2018, when support for electronic transfers to 2 million 546,266 beneficiaries and cash support to 2 million 535,725 people were issued.
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On the most up-to-date figures, he responded that work was continuing to consolidate the support provided. Animal Político also requested the information through the general communication directorate of the Ministry of Welfare, but, so far, no response has been received.
No data on Benito Juarez universities
The president stated that “Already 100 public and free universities of the Benito Juarez Educational System were opened in poor and marginalized regions of the country, where 39 thousand 170 young people study and 815 teachers work”.
However there’s no way to check that it’s 100 and that there are nearly 40,000 students, although both Animal Politics and different media have reported the existence of a dozen universities, for which sports courts and houses of the culture leg are taught.
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In response to requests for transparency, the PSE has stated that “no information” was “located” on the precise addresses of the campuses, the cost per pupil, the salary of teachers, the cost or commendege of the land, the cost of construction, targets, and prior analysis to determine the relevance of the program. It is also not found on the SeP page or the program.
The Report only says that university campuses are temporary, but no further details are provided.
The president inaugurated the program on December 18, 2018. Since last February, Political Animal has made 15 requests for information via transparency to the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) on everything related to the programme. 
Interviews have also been requested since December 2018 at the press area of the unit and the Center for Regional Cooperation for Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (Crefal), an international body outside the federal public administration and that he would take over the campuses, but there has been no response so far.
The university’s addresses were requested directly from the Presidency, but the Presidency said that the PMI would be responsible for providing this information, but it only responded with a link where students could register.
Political Animal found that in the municipalities of Villa del Carbón, State of Mexico; Tlaltizapán de Zapata, and Tepoztlán, in Morelos; as well as in Chilcuautla, Hidalgo has not started the construction of the university campuses, although the students did start classes in theaters and houses of culture that they use as classrooms.
The Army is no longer the main human rights violator
López Obrador said: “Neither the Army nor the Navy has been used nor used to suppress the people. The war of extermination against so-called organized crime is over. Raids, razias, or massacres are no longer allowed… The State is no longer the main violator of human rights”
However this you can’t check, because there is no official and public data to verify this, at least in the case of the Army.
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This is because the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena) has consistently refused to disclose the number of civilians injuring and abusing since 2014. 
Animal Politician published that the data is still hidden even with the change of six-sexenium, as the unit says it does not know the figures when required in requests for public information.
A lethality index study presented last week also confirmed that the Sedena is hiding this information despite orders from the National Institute for Access to Information that it be transparent.
“We do not know if the president’s phrase is true at least by the Silk because it does not make public the information of civilians injured or killed at the hands of its elements,” said Catalina Pérez Correa, study coordinator and CIDE researcher.
With information from Andrea Vega, Arturo Angel and Nayeli Roldán
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Original source in Spanish