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Security: Goverment claims don't touch reality

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Borderland Beat Translated by Reed Brundage Mexico Voices

As the EPN administration boasts and assures insecurity has been overcome the reality reflects a far different picture, Michoacan and Tamaulipas remain the kidnapping capitals of the nation, and transparency has been thrown into the muddy waters of yesterday.   EPN's ratings have hit an all time low.
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Enrique Peña Nieto’s government insists on celebrating the success of its security operations in Michoacán and Tamaulipas, even though the violence remains present in those states. The head of the Secretariat of Government Relations, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, has asserted that in Michoacán “the insecurity crisis has been overcome“, while for Tamaulipas, he boasted “positive results in the decrease of violence.”

However, the official in charge of domestic policy did not provide any data to confirm his statements. On the contrary, the official figures contradict him: Tamaulipas is the leading state in kidnappings and Michoacán is in second place. Also, both states are among the national top 10 in murders and extort ions.

Early this month, the National Citizen Observatory criticized the federal official for the same reason. The organization exposed him by stating that “the cases of Michoacán and Tamaulipas demonstrate that the statements of the authorities do not correspond with the reality reflected by the officially reported figures.”

Speeches are not actions. The data contradict Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong and distance the government even more from the real situation suffered by the people exposed to such violence.

The State of Mexico is the counterpart, and undoubtedly a special case. It is the state that Enrique Peña Nieto governed before taking office as President and, since 2013, it is the most violent and dangerous state in the country. Unlike Michoacán and Tamaulipas, in the State of Mexico there are no jingoistic speeches, only obscurity and silence.

It is therefore easy to imagine that there is nothing to celebrate there. Obscurity in cases such as the alleged mass execution of 22 hit men by members of the Army that remains unexplained. Silence by the authorities who don´t want to make public the magnitude of the problem faced by the State in that part of the country while the Executive Secretariat of the National System of Public Security (SESNSP) and the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) confirm that, indeed, the State of Mexico is the most violent state in the country. But victory is being declared in two states that, far from improving, remain the same.

What´s happening in that state where no one will say anything, not the Governor, the President, or the head of the Secretariat of Government Relations?

Is the magnitude of the tragedy that immense?

Peña Nieto must stop investing efforts in suggesting a reality that doesn’t match the one experienced by Mexicans, and should admit that things are not going as planned. In that way, the statements of his government at least would have credibility.

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