Ricardo Anaya – The Financier

Ricardo Anaya CortesA former presidential candidate criticized this Monday that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Said they take care of it too criminalsJust two weeks before the 2022 state elections are due.

He questioned whether, in the context of terror with the current figures of violenceThe president decided to send the message that “gang members are also taken care of, they are human beings”, as he said in his recent morning conference.

“Then of course it’s not a coincidence Now that we are two weeks away from going to the polls in six states, he has come out to say that ‘we take care of criminals too’. And he didn’t say it once, I mean, He has been repeating this for days so that the message gets where it needs to goTwo weeks before the election”, he alleged in his weekly video.

According to the PAN member, these same messages directed at organized crime have been given by President López Obrador on past occasions when the election dates are approaching.

He recalled, for example, the operation known as kuliacanazzoIn October 2019, when the issuance was ordered Ovid Guzman.

“The most serious thing is that it is no coincidence, it is no ordinary coincidence that López Obrador sends messages of peace to the criminals, just look, when the election date is approaching again (…) In other words , did the same in the last. Before the 2021 elections, he had ordered the release of Chapo’s son. He greeted his mother, remember that he even apologized for calling her by his surname. All this before the 2021 election,” he said.

In addition, Anaya Cortes said there is evidence that crime supported Morena in several states during the last elections. Also last year, López Obrador said that organized crime “generally behaves very well.”

“And all this when the brutality of the crime has reached the level of true horror. How to take care of band members? Need a hug, not a bullet? As if the criminals were about to stop as he hugs them. It doesn’t work like that,” he said.

Against this background, Ricardo Anaya remarked that he has Your proposals to confront violence:

“I have proposals: forget about the hollow little phrases and recover the original mission of the Mexican state, which has to offer Security to citizens. Take care of the lives of Mexican people and fight with criminals. Take care of the victims and enforce the law.”