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Nationwide Unity Required to Fight Crime: Calderón
 Suzanne Stephens Waller - Presidencia de la República
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August 05, 2010
| | President Felipe Calderón leads Dialogue for Security, Evaluation and Reinforcement, with religious associations. (Presidencia de la República) | |
Mexico City - Solving the problem of crime in the country requires the highest level of unity throughout the country, declared President Felipe Calderón in the Dialogue for Security. Evaluation and Reinforcement, adding that it is essential to create a state public security policy that will be above governors, politicians, business, religious and any other kind of leaders.
Addressing representatives of various religious associations and accompanied by Secretaries of the Interior and Public Security: José Francisco Blake Mora and Genaro García Luna, and Attorney General Arturo Chávez Chávez, and his private secretary, Luis Felipe Bravo Mena, the President invited them to, “oblige politicians to reach an agreement.”
He explained that, for his part, “the door has always and will always be open to discuss this issue and to find jointly responsible solutions.”
He said that crime is the common enemy and should be treated as such, “Because crime implies an enormous degradation of society and among other things, of moral and ethical values. It is a situation that is associated with the loss of civic culture, human feeling and the loss of civic culture too.”
Moreover, continued the President, this situation is also associated with the disunity in which the problem caught us, as several of you have said. Every man is out for his own, fighting for his own cause or personal or group concerns. The fact that it is a common enemy obliges us each to act within the sphere of his faculties and capabilities, within a principle of joint responsibility.
He said, “It is true, we all have something to do. Although it is also true that we have very different responsibilities. A worker who does his best to support his family does not have the same responsibility as the President. A housewife does not have the same responsibility as a policeman or a state prosecutor or a governor.”
On this point, President Felipe Calderón explained: “I am not trying to solve a problem that only affects my government, far less the political party to which I belong. This is a problem that affects the entire country.”
“And perhaps we have all contributed to this failure to achieve unity, but I repeat, this is a major problem for the country, which can only be resolved through unity, in other words, above political, religious, religious and any other type of problem,” he said.
He said that he will not cede in this problem, adding: “I will continue working, with all my strength and with all the resources given to the President by the Constitution to fight crime.”
He said that this commitment is very clear. “With all the costs and risks that this implies. But I need the support of society, I need the support of leaders and I need the understanding and support, and the joint responsibility of politicians. But in any case, I know that if politicians fail, as tends to happen, there is a society that is making demands on us, which cannot wait any longer,” he added.
In this respect, he explained that, “This is why these dialogues are Dialogues for Security, dialogues that seek to create a state public security policy that will be above governors, politicians, business, religious and any other kind of leaders.”
He said that the issue of fighting organized crime is a matter that can only be resolved with unity. That is why, he said, “I am using each of the vehicle’s wheels, each of the table’s legs. I am resorting to businessmen, social leaders, academics, the media and of course, religious leaders. Incidentally, I think it is a long time since we had an army like this that included both the President and religious leaders.”
He told the representatives of religious associations: “You have touched a point about which you are unfortunately right. There is a lack of politicians. And believe me that in all the parties, I have found a certain amount of willingness.
“At this point, I would like to tell you about the parable of the banquet. There was a key who organized a banquet and on the day of the banquet, one by one the guests made excuses not to go. So the king went to the crossroads to invite those who had not originally been invited.”
Which is why, he said: “I am asking for help from society, just as I asked for it from political parties and Congress and I will go on asking for help but I will not wait for personal interests to stop being over national interests.”
“That is why I am going to go on talking to society to seek and find the support we need to mobilize the whole of Mexico to solve this problem. And I know that the parties will come too. But if they do not come, I know that the society you and others lead will be able to speak to each of the key political actors in the country to participate in this task.”
He said that joint responsibility by the authorities at all levels of government is crucial. “It is unthinkable for Federal Government to be able to assume the entire responsibility for this problem. And not only because it not exclusively its responsibility according to the Constitution, but because it is physically and logically impossible to achieve this.”
He declared that the main role churches must play, from this perspective of joint responsibility, is to restore the social fabric and instill values in society. He thanked religious associations for their perception that we are jointly responsible for restoring public security and the fact that they have joined this effort at unity.
He said that achieving the common good requires a combination of efforts, attitudes and tasks, “Because this is a serious threat to the national common good, perhaps the most serious one we have had so far.”
Lastly, he declared that, “These dialogues are part of a process, as I have said, to review what we have done. In other words, they allow us to stop and take time to evaluate, with the help of society and its feedback, on what we can do better and should correct.”
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