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“After learning to hide the dead, they are now going after what is said aloud”: Anaya attacks Sheinbaum’s second report Image: Gabriel Pano / EL UNIVERSAL
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“After learning to hide the dead, they are now going after what is said aloud”: Anaya attacks Sheinbaum’s second report

From El Universal · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • PAN Senate leader Ricardo Anaya accused Morena of breaking its promises and manipulating homicide figures during a speech on President Claudia Sheinbaum’s second report.
  • He claimed some deaths were counted under other offenses or as disappearances, while rejecting the government’s assertion that Mexico is at peace and homicides have declined.
  • Anaya also criticized the government’s handling of alleged links involving Andrés Manuel López Beltrán and Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya, and called for a public technical review of crime-reporting methods.

“After learning to hide the dead, they are now going after what is said aloud.” With that accusation, PAN Senate coordinator Ricardo Anaya turned his response to Claudia Sheinbaum’s second presidential report into a broad attack on Morena’s record in government.

After learning to hide the dead, they are now going after what is said aloud

— Ricardo AnayaAnaya used the phrase to accuse Morena of concealing deaths and restricting scrutiny.

Speaking at the opening session of the new ordinary congressional period, Anaya said Morena had failed to keep the promises that helped bring it to power: not lying, not stealing and not betraying the people of Mexico. He rejected Sheinbaum’s claim that Mexico is at peace and that homicides have fallen.

Anaya accused the government of manipulating official figures by placing deaths in a category called “other crimes that threaten life and bodily integrity.” He said the category also includes deaths, but that they are not counted as homicides. He further alleged that people listed as disappeared are excluded from homicide figures, even as disappearances doubled while reported homicides declined.

Do the math with me, because this is elementary school arithmetic: in one column, seven homicides a day decreased, while in the other two, 40 increased

— Ricardo AnayaHe argued that reported declines in homicides were offset by increases in other death-related categories.

“Do the math with me, because this is elementary school arithmetic: in one column, seven homicides a day decreased, while in the other two, 40 increased,” Anaya said. “No one in Mexico came back to life. They only moved the dead to another box or erased them.” He added that families searching for missing relatives deserve accurate records, saying, “A mother who goes out looking for her child with a shovel and a photograph is not looking for a percentage. Her child was taken from her, so do not take away the right for her child to count.”

A mother who goes out looking for her child with a shovel and a photograph is not looking for a percentage. Her child was taken from her, so do not take away the right for her child to count

— Ricardo AnayaHe used families searching for missing people to criticize the government’s crime-recording practices.

Anaya proposed a public technical review of the methodology used to record deaths, arguing that “counting correctly is not a technicality, it is the first requirement for governing truthfully.” He also cited the so-called fiscal fuel theft, which he described as the country’s largest theft at 600 billion pesos. He said Andrés Manuel López Beltrán had been mentioned as a presumed participant and accused the government of refusing to investigate him, as well as Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya, who he said had been accused in the United States of links to organized crime. “The problem is not that Andrés Manuel López Beltrán had his visa taken away. The problem is that you do not want to ask a single question,” Anaya said.

Counting correctly is not a technicality, it is the first requirement for governing truthfully

— Ricardo AnayaHe called for a public technical review of the methodology used to classify deaths.
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Originally published by El Universal in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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