By The Opinion
23 Oct 2024, 11:42 PM EDT
The elected governor of Chiapas, Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar, announced the new members of his next cabinet and In addition to being questioned about his security plan to confront the violence suffered by the entity, he also revealed what the new immigration strategy will be. in what is known as the main gateway for people on mobility bound for the United States.
Ramírez Aguilar specified that it will not be until December 8 when he announces this new plan, the date on which he will formally take office as governor of the main border city in the south of the country.
Also He highlighted that Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala has a lot to offer, as jobs, and with the determined support of the authorities, Tapachula and Soconusco, both towns in the state of Chiapas, have had development.
In this sense, the elected governor of Chiapas recalled that President Claudia Sheinbaum has promised the delivery of a railway line, part of the Mayan Train, which will reach Guatemala and where he said, “Large investments can be made and products that come from other parts of the world can be commercialized.”
Furthermore, the plan becomes necessary, where the main city on the southern border of Mexico, Tapachula, has become the municipality with the highest perception of insecurity in the country, in the midst of the organized crime dispute to control drug trafficking. and people from South America, according to activists.
Among his preliminary actions to address the migration crisis, Ramírez Aguilar also named 12 top-level officials who will be in charge of the new policy in the southern border city, among them, the head of the Southern Border Secretariat, who during It was inactive for 6 years.
He maintained that Chiapas will have a fair theme because there is a large commercialization of more than 150 products between Chiapas and Guatemala.
María Amalia Guadalupe Toriello Elorza, will be the new head of the new Secretariat of the Southern Border, where her appointment is of great importance and crucial for Tapachula, being a focal point for a new pole (corridor) of development, among the 10 proposed by the new Mexican president.
“President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo has taken the development pole as her banner to cushion the part of the treatment of migrants with a humane sense, for this reason, we are going to create the Secretariat of the Southern Border,” he commented.
*With information from EFE
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