The usual morning press briefing and the citizen security meeting were held on Friday at the Sixth Naval Region of Manzanillo, in Colima state. This was an opportunity to publicly settle discrepancies between that government and the federal executive.
About the port issue, Lopez Obrador assured that all kind of contraband such as goods and drugs are introduced through Manzanillo, especially chemicals that are the most destructive and harmful modern drugs because they can destroy young people.
For this reason, we have decided that the land and maritime customs are in charge of the Secretariat of Defense and the Secretariat of the Navy, and the same happens in ports for security and to avoid that those drugs enter the country, the head of State said.
The president considered that the serious problems in the country’s ports are fundamentally due to corruption and port mismanagement, and this explains why so many attacks and murders occur in Colima and the country’s other regions.
Governor Ignacio Peralta Sanchez, of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), agreed that Manzanillo port is part of the federal strategy and promised to support the national executive in its fight to clean up ports and customs.
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