MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president acknowledged Tuesday that the armed forces have taken on one other civilian position: repairing the nation's highways.
Filling the holes has been added to an extended listing of initiatives starting from planes, trains and police that the armed forces now management.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stated freeway upkeep in southern Mexico had been transferred from the federal government's Division of Transportation.
The division normally provides contracts to non-public corporations for street upkeep, however López Obrador stated these contracts have been too costly and riddled with corruption.
“There are only a few critical building corporations, as a result of they have been all rotten with corruption,” stated the president.
López Obrador has given the armed forces the main position in legislation enforcement, together with the quasi-military Nationwide Guard, and entrusted them with much more duties than their predecessors.
Late final 12 months, López Obrador put the navy accountable for the federal government's new state airline. He additionally stated that the military will run a passenger practice service, along with constructing the whole lot from financial institution places of work to airports.
López Obrador says the navy is extra sincere and environment friendly.
In contrast to many militaries in Latin America, Mexico's armed forces have for almost a century stored out of politics and prevented taking a distinguished public position.
Critics say López Obrador's measures threaten to interrupt that custom and militarize the nation.
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