35% of Mexican territory, from drug trafficking

MONTERREY, Nuevo León (EFE).— Xóchitl Gálvez affirmed yesterday that 35% of the national territory is dominated by organized crime and there are communities where only the criminals themselves can enter.

“That was a statement made by the United States Northern Command a couple of years ago,” he stressed in a dialogue with partners from the Chamber of the Processing Industry (Caintra) in Nuevo León.

“What I have been able to verify during my campaign is that there are areas of the country where organized crime practically rules: a part of Guerrero, a good part of Michoacán, a part of the State of Mexico, now Chiapas, a part of Tabasco, from Sonora, Sinaloa and other states,” he noted.

Gálvez said that the issue of security is one of those that worries industrialists the most because they suffer daily robberies on the roads.

“There are areas of the country where practically no one can enter except criminals and that has to stop, we are in the context of a complicated election. It was an issue that businessmen touched on, security, because they suffer it on roads, areas where criminals conduct themselves with total impunity,” she said in an interview with the media.

The presidential candidate also shared that to “pacify” the country it is necessary to strengthen the municipal police, provide resources to state governments for security and focus the Army on national security to recover the territory.

“In security, rest assured that hugging criminals will end. Rest assured that you are going to have a brave president, moving forward,” he said during his participation in the “Caintra Industrial Dialogue” event, moderated by the president of the Chamber himself, Máximo Vedoya.

Nor are they going to bet “on the use of force for the sake of the use of force,” said the opposition candidate.

“We need intelligence, capacity, we need good police. They will have resources so that no one is underpaid, so that they have social security, housing credit, so that they have scholarships for their children,” he indicated.