The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obradorquestioned the company this Wednesday Ferromex by suspend 60 freight trains due to the presence of more than 4,000 migrants on the roads or cars in the midst of a new wave of migration.
The owners of the trains, in a strange, unusual way, released a bulletin announcing that the trains were going to stop, that (they did not do) not even when the teachers took over the tracks there in Michoacán for several days, they did not release any bulletin. , indicated the president in his daily press conference.
López Obrador criticized the Ferromex statement, that on Tuesday the railways stopped “given the notable increase in migrants concentrated in various regions of the country and the severe risk that it represents for their integrity.”
The company documented “about half a dozen unfortunate cases of injuries or deaths” in recent days, in addition to more than 1,500 migrants on railroad cars and operating yards in Coahuila, more than 800 in Guanajuato, nearly 800 in Aguascalientes, and around 1,000 in Chihuahua.
It is a decision that Ferromex made, no (it can affect), what matters to us is not the trains, we care about the migrants,” the president commented on the matter.
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Ferromex is part of Grupo México of magnate Germán Larreaknown as the second richest Mexican and with whom López Obrador has had disagreements in the past.
Just last June, Grupo México handed over to the Government 120 kilometers of three railway sections in the southeast of the country that the Government of Mexico occupied for the construction of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, one of López Obrador’s emblematic projects.
Migrants must be protected, but the entire deployment of Mr. Germán Larrea’s newsletter caught my attention,” the president now mentioned.
They are restarting the transfer on the trains, after the bulletin the trains started running, that was the report they gave me in the morning,” he added.
But the decision comes amid a rebound in the migratory flow through Mexico after the initial drop that caused the expiration of US Title 42, as López Obrador acknowledged last month.
“We are constantly working on the immigration issue,” defended the president. EFE
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