| | |  Editorials | Issues | July 2009 
State Force Legitimate Means of Maintaining Order, Legality and Security: President Calderón
 Presidencia de la República
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July 24, 2009
 |  | Today, Mexico faces new enemies, criminals that challenge the state and its institutions and besiege and harm society and threaten the nation.
- President Felipe Calderón |  | | |
Salina Cruz, Oax - Mexican President Felipe Calderón declared that in response to the enemy that organized crime represents, the state has the right and obligation to use all available resources to ensure Mexicans’ right to order and peaceful coexistence.
“And that is why the state deploys its force, which is superior to that of criminals and is a legitimate, constitutional force, a legal, democratic and public force, the only one there is and should exist to apply the law with no distinction or exception throughout the country to strengthen and preserve citizens’ security which is now being threatened by these criminals," he said.
He said that in the state's struggle against organized crime, the Mexican Navy is in the first line of combat, adding that Mexican marines' quest for security, legality and justice is also that of all Mexicans.
“Today, Mexico faces new enemies, criminals that challenge the state and its institutions and besiege and harm society and threaten the nation. In the struggle to combat this scourge, the Mexican navy has been in the first line of combat, not only as regards the actions it carries out to combat the harmful, destructive action of drug traffickers. The point is also to destroy the financial and operative structure of organized crime in Mexico that ends up extorting, abducting, robbing and dominating the various forms of community life in Mexico,” he said.
During the launching of the Independencia Naval Ship in the port of Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, he mentioned the positive results achieved against this scourge during his administration and the major sacrifices made by marines, soldiers and civil servants committed to the nation. He added that together, the operations against the leaders of these criminal structures, the weakening of their structures, and the arrest of the corrupt civil servants that protected them and allowed them to go unpunished have reduced these criminal groups.
The determined action of Federal Forces is weakening criminal structures. The criminal leaders who had grown used to operating with absolute impunity and in some cases complicity, with no fear of being arrested, now live under permanent pressure and the threat of being taken to justice,” he said.
Accompanied by State Governor Ulises Ruiz and Secretaries of the Navy, Sedena and Public Security: Admiral Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza; General Guillermo Galván Galván, and Genaro García Luna, respectively; as well as his wife, Margarita Zavala, the patroness of the Independencia naval ship, President Calderón stressed the importance of continuing the program to replace the Mexican navy's units.
In this respect, he said that the construction of patrol boats such as the Independencia, as well as interceptor patrols in national shipyards reinforces the experience and technological capacity of the national naval industry, while creating jobs for Mexican specialists and workers. He also confirmed Federal Government's commitment to the institutions in charge of security and highlighted the increase in the Navy's budget, which has risen from $9.1 to $16 billion pesos.
“This is the realization of the Navy's dreams to use innovation and modernization to replace and strengthen their own fleet. By constantly updating the fleet, Government confirms it commitment to equipping the Armed Forces to enable them to continue fulfilling their mission to unreservedly guarantee national sovereignty and security within the Federation," he said.
Lastly, the President urged the crew of the Independencia Naval ship and Mexican marines to honor their uniform and carry out the acts entrusted to them with dedication, bravery and perseverance, and with the dedication, responsibility, discipline and loyalty that have always distinguished the Mexican navy. |
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