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Ana Guevara, director of the National Sports Commission (Conade), criticized Mexican athletes who have received harsh criticism against her after the implementation of her austerity policy.
All this less than a month before the start of the Pan American Games in Chile, which grants places to Paris 2024.
During an interview with Hugo Sánche for ESPN, Guevara explained that the previous directors of Conade They had many considerations for the athletes and “rude” them by giving them considerable financial support for representing the country in different competitions.
“I am not a charity entity, I am the government entity, and the entity is regulated, and it is not that I have the money in a box to disperse it and whoever arrives will give it. Unfortunately, to keep their mouths shut, they filled their mouths with money and rudely treated them,” Guevara explained.
Ana Guevara pointed out that she is calm with what she has done in her administration because she solved the problems that she had encountered in previous administrations in the National Sports Commission.
“I have asked you to be calm, it is an administration that came to revolutionize part of the scaffolding and of the administrative process, they are not decisions that I make in a personal capacity, many things were modified,” added the official, who made clear the position that sports scholarships are only support, not a salary, and that they are subject to obtaining certain results.
Ana Guevara described as the most corrupt
The director has had at least 17 lawsuits from athletes during her administration due to alleged mismanagement.
The dissolution of the Mexican Swimming Federation and also of the Bow Federation was recently announced.
According to a survey carried out by the organization Mexico chooses, the public servant is considered the most corrupt in the month of August 2023 in the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).
Guevara heads the survey in a list made up of 45 public officials related to the AMLO government.
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