"Never again an absurd war and the use of force to cope with insecurity": López Obrador

In directing the presentation of the National Missing Persons Research Strategy in Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that "never again", the government will resort "to force or declare a war with the problems of insecurity".

In your morning press conference, attributed this humanitarian crisis and human rights in Mexico to the application of the neoliberal economic modelwhich has worsened inequalities in the country like never before.

López Obrador said that there are about one million victims of violence in Mexico, between dead and missing, as a result of "the absurd war" that since 2006, he declared former president Felipe Calderón and followed the government of Enrique Peña Nieto.

"It is the painful and terrible balance of a futile, inhuman and corrupt policy that can no longer be imposed on Mexico," he said. says the president.

By compromising his word with the families of the victims of violence, López Obrador said his government would do "all that is humanly possible" to solve the problem of the missing.

"Our commitment is to do everything in our power, everything, everything that is humanly possible to know about the missing. and help the parents, "he said.

López Obrador awarded to the neoliberal economic model and to the inequality that it has engendered, the serious security problems and human rights violations that Mexico faces.

"That's what triggered insecurity and violence," he said. But "Never again the use of force to solve social problems".

The President regretted that there are versions that to attribute the crisis of violence in Mexico to the "nature" of Mexicans.

"There were those who came to suggest that we were evil by nature, that we love violence, and they gave absurd examples such as the practices that would have taken place in the pre-Hispanic time ", referring to the sacrifices of cultures like the Aztecs.

He argued that the Mexican people are peaceful and that violence and insecurity "are the product of looting policy" neoliberalism applied over the past 36 years.

"Never before has inequality worsened both in Mexico and during the neoliberal period," he said. "This is the period of the greatest inequality in the country's history, of corruption and looting., not even compared to what was the colonial plunder of three centuries of Spanish rule. "

Presentation of the National Missing Persons Research Strategy Under-Secretary for Human Rights, Alejandro Encinas, that López Obrador has recognized as "one of the best officials of the nation".

Your responsibility at the helm of "this unfortunate affair can we give as a guarantee, in addition to the will ".

In detailing the 11 points of an ambitious plan that will involve the organizations of relatives of disappeared victims, Encinas claimed that for the first time "the state badume its responsibilities "in the humanitarian crisis in Mexico.

The problem, he says involves 40,000 missing persons, more than 1,100 clandestine graves and 26,000 unidentified bodies. "It's the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis in Mexico," he said.