AMLO assured that the massacre of '68 and the war against narco are a “stain” that the Army would bear

During the documentary by producer Epigmenio Ibarra about the construction of the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), president of Mexico, described the massacre against the student movement of 1968 and the so-called war on drugs as a “stain” that the armed forces will have to bear on its history.

The founder of Argos Comunicaciones portrayed, in a duration of more than 60 minutes, not only the work of one of the megaprojects of the administration of the Fourth Transformation (4Q), led by López Obrador, but also some of the most outstanding statements by Tabasqueño.

In the feature film, Ibarra documented the feeling of the Chief Executive in the face of the decisions that his predecessors made towards the Mexican Army in a context that, today, has been marked in the history of the country.

It was on October 2, 1968, in the Plaza of the Three Cultures in Tlatelolco, when former PRI President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1964-1970) ordered a group of snipers and elements of the armed forces to open fire on thousands of students demonstrating against student repression.

However, it was not the only fact that López Obrador recalled, because, according to his statements, the so-called war against drugs, which began during the administration of former Mexican president Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), will be marked within the history of the Mexican Army, due to the thousands of deaths, both elements of the armed forces as civilians, who were registered during the six-year term of president panista.

In documentary, López Obrador assured that he will never order the Army to suppress the Mexican people. He also indicated that he called these events “horrors by superior orders of the Supreme Commanders, the Presidents of the Republic”.

“The mistakes that have been made using the Army to suppress the people, which was 68, and this last stage of using the Army illegally because it is not in the Constitution or it was not in the Constitution for public security tasks, and putting them to carry out violent actions, and sometimes massacres, even if they are clashes against drug traffickers, and the slogan of 'kill them in hot',” said the Chief Executive in the audiovisual production of Epigmenio Ibarra.

“Who carried all those stains that are difficult to erase? The army, the military institutions. Then it's another time, it's another time. It is to link the Army, which is a people with the people, not to separate them, and respect human rights, and to strengthen honesty as a basic principle,” he added.

With regard to the documentary, you can see step by step the process by which the new great work of the 4T was built over the course of two and a half years of work. Similarly, the important participation of the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA) in the construction of Felipe Ángeles International Airport is narrated.

The construction of this new project was mostly carried out by military engineers, who shared their testimony on camera and said they were very happy and honored by the opportunity to participate in the project.

There were around 140,000 SEDENA workers who now have professional training and experience for having worked on the construction of the new Santa Lucia airport, which is scheduled to open on March 21 of this year.

However, in the documentary, the Chief Executive indicated that 300 billion pesos had been allocated as a budget for the construction of Texcoco airport, a project that was initiated during the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), while the construction of AIFA cost 75 billion pesos.

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