“It will end in a tank”: Fox criticized AMLO after CNTE blockade in Chiapas

The ex-president Vicente Fox criticized Andrés Manuel López Obrador after appearing in Chiapas as part of a working tour. The PAN assured that first the president was transported in his Jetta, then it was an armored suburban and finally he will do it aboard a war tank.

On top of that, he said that there is a difference between the morning press conference and the street, because if in one he has full control of the situation, in the other he cannot. manage in his opinion.

“It started with a jetta, then an armored suburban and will end with a tank. The street is not the morning circus “

The head of the federal executive has had an eventful weekend. Last Friday, on his way to the place from where he was going to lead the daily press conference in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, the president intervened members of Section VII of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE).

Given the inability to hold the conference, Tabasco established a link via a video call to explain what happened.

“I’m happy to be able to communicate with you in a somewhat peculiar situation, but we have to do it this morning,” he began.

“The Secretary of Defense has already made a report. I was about to arrive at this headquarters in Tuxtla (Gutiérrez), to participate from 6 to 7 in the morning in the security meeting then in the morning, but at the entrance of the barracks, a group of teachers of the CNTE of Chiapas, prevented us from entering on the condition that we had to assist them immediately and resolve their requests“, he underlined.

“I can’t allow this because the president cannot be taken hostage by anyone … We have assisted the teachers in Mexico, we will continue to take care of them, I have spoken with the CNTE about eight or ten times that I have met them … but in the case of Chiapas and also of Michoacán, it there are acquired rights. It has nothing to do with the magisterium (…) I cannot submit to any interest group… so I decided to stay here, I’m not going to force in … there aren’t really many, I could come in to lecture, but I decided not to , it is like a protest against me so that these groups do not exceed Do not abuse, because what you are doing is totally illegal, inappropriate ”, underlined the head of the federal executive.

López Obrador the offered a dialogue with the head of the Ministry of Education, Delfina Gómez, to respond to your requests.

“(…) They want me to solve the problem right here and if they don’t let us through, then I will stay here as long as it takes … If you will allow me, we will continue my tour, we will be in San Cristóbal later (…) “

Finally, the president reiterated that he will not be subjected to blackmail, while, he assured, this is what the pacifists like Nelson Mandela, Gandhi or Martin Luther King.

“(…) This is part of the transformation process that is underway. They are in front of a military barracks, do not use force, do not submit to the blackmail of these groups and resist … this is what Mandela did, what Luther King did, what Gandhi did. above all … non-violence. Juarez said: “Nothing by force, everything by reason and right”. A loving hug to all, ”concluded López Obrador.

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