President Andrés Manuel López Obrador congratulated Bernardo Arévalo on his victory as president-elect of Guatemala. The Mexican president said he is very pleased because everything indicates that Arévalo is a progressive and honest man who will govern for all, but with special attention to the poorest strata of society. “It was an extraordinary and miraculous thing; something that the Guatemalan people deserved, after many years of suffering,” he said.
President López Obrador denied the Reuters report stating that most of the remittances reaching Mexico are related to the drug trade. He explained that the news agency took as a source the data provided by an opposition group, which belongs to an organization linked to Claudio X. González. They are liars and incapable of accepting that the people of Mexico are hard-working and get ahead without forgetting their families back home.
The head of the Executive Branch declared that the new Ministry of Public Education (SEP) textbooks will be in the classrooms for the opening of the school year on August 28, in the states where no injunctions against their distribution have been granted. He thanked the trade unions that support the distribution of the new textbooks for their stance.
President López Obrador showed a video of opposition presidential hopeful Xóchitl Gálvez stating that in country’s southeastern states the people do not have a culture of working 8 hours straight. The President emphasized that in the southeast considerable work is undertaken and proof of this is that Chiapas is one of the states where poverty has most been reduced.
The Mexican government reported that in Section 2 of the Maya Train, which runs from Escárcega to Calkiní extending 234 km, only 10 km of track remain to be built for the section to be totally completed. Rolling Jaguar Train 2 has already been delivered and static tests will soon begin at the workshop in Cd. Sahagún, Hidalgo; and dynamic tests are about to start on train 1, delivered to the workshops in Cancún, Quintana Roo.
