Xóchitl Gálvez assures that crime controls 35% of Mexico

The Mexican opposition presidential candidate, Xóchitl Gálvez, stated this Friday in northern Mexico 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 in which they assured, after an analysis, that 35% of the territory is occupied by organized crime,” he stressed.

The candidate from the “Fuerza y ​​Corazón por México” (PRI-PAN and PRD) coalition held a dialogue with industrialists affiliated with the Chamber of the Processing Industry (Caintra) in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León.

“Which I have been able to confirm during my campaign that there are areas of the country where crime practically rules. organized: a part of Guerrero, a good part of Michoacán, a part of the state of Mexico, now Chiapas, a part of Tabasco, Sonora, Sinaloa and well other states,” he listed.

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 the businessmen touched on, the issue of security they suffer on the issue of roads, areas where criminals conduct themselves with total impunity,” he 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 issues 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, he clarified, is he going to bet “on the use of force for the sake of the use of force.”

“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.

The surveys place Gálvez behind the official candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum, who has a wide advantage over her most direct rival.

Mexico will hold the largest elections in its history on June 2, when more than 97 million people are called to renew 20,375 federal positions, including the Presidency of the Republic, the 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the 128 of the Senate, as well as nine state governments. AND