11/04/2011. The president of the Senate, Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera, called on the federal government to sincerely address the "weariness" and "citizen outcry" against violence, as well as to admit and correct the errors in the security strategy.
Also, the coordinator of the PRI in the Chamber of Deputies, Francisco Rojas, proposed a comprehensive plan to reduce violence and insecurity, in which the first thing is to treat addictions as a public health problem "and in this task it is not necessary to kill anyone."
Beltrones considered that the government will be able to appeal "to citizen understanding and temper social anger" to the extent that it assumes and fulfills greater responsibilities. In addition to "being willing to listen, admit, rectify and remove those who have not offered results." The PRI's coordinator of senators also said that social anger will increase if the federal government interferes in electoral matters, or "the State is ignorant in the face of the commercial dispute for public goods."
In a statement, Rojas said what would be needed is to build clinics throughout the country and mobilize thousands of doctors, psychologists and other specialists to help those who have fallen into the drug trap, especially young people and children.
He proposed that the government convene teachers at all levels of education to become "missionaries of crime prevention" and bring the school closer to the community, "as they have done in other countries successfully."
Rojas emphasized that what is involved is to retain for the country "the legions of disinherited who see a way out in crime."
For his part, Beltrones clarified that he does not propose to give up in the fight against transnational organized crime, but that all state institutions approach civil society and demonstrate in the facts that they are on its side.
"We have to be consistent in all areas of public action and build the necessary consensus to promote reforms that give cohesion and strength to the action of the government and society," he added in a statement.
The PRI senator said that he will continue to seek consensus on an agenda of necessary reforms "to correct the course of the nation and promote a government that serves citizens."
Rojas said that the smuggling of high-powered weapons to Mexico must also be stopped, but this will not be done by the governments of the United States, China and other countries that produce these weapons, first, because they do not have the political conditions to do so and second, because they will not block the access of their arms companies to one of the most abundant markets in the world. The task is for the Mexican customs authorities.
Source: eluniversal.com.mx
