Have carrier flights decreased in the country? This AMLO said in 2020

There Bajio Region It is one of the most important in the whole country due to its high level of investmentwith countries like the United States, Germany, Spain, Japan and even Belgium as those with the most investment received between 2012 and 2021However, this situation also makes it one of the most coveted areas for organized crime.

The morning of August 14, 2020, in full covid-19 pandemicPresident Andrés Manuel López Obrador was informed of the concern businessmen in this region, which includes the states of Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Jalisco, MichoacanSan Luis Potosi, zacatecas and Querétaro, due to the increasing number of thefts recorded against the carriers.

This is important because the Bajío region is characterized by strong investments, mainly in the automotive sector, of which industrial cluster estimates that by 2023, 55 new investment projects will arrive in the region, to which is added the one that has one of the most important ports of the country as it is Lazaro CardenasMichoacán, which according to the National Port System Administration received an investment of 1,646.45 million pesos in 2022.

However, President López Obrador said they were not counting on flight reports in this region, in addition to the fact that this crime has been reduced not only in the region, but in the whole country. These statements were contrasted by the organization Section 19 with the public information requested from the Presidency.

Part of your report (Mis) Official Information and Social Communicationrevealed that out of a total of 34 declarations that this organization has reviewed, it must be only two of them are truewhile others, to a greater extent, have been considered misleading or false.

In the case of the President’s statements on the thefts committed by carriers in the Bajío, article 19 revealed that it was a true statement. However, it is not possible to establish whether this was due to a security policy or to the reduction of economic activities derived from the Covid-19 pandemic, because after the reduction that the president marked, because in the years following the declaration, there was an increase.

In its request for information, the Presidency referred to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), whose data revealed that a decrease in carrier theft in the Bajio.

According to the examination that Section 19 performed on the data, it was found that between January and August 2020, recorded 6 thousand 399 cases flights to carriers across the country, including 1,205 in the region of Shallow.

Whereas in 2019, a comparison year, 7 thousand 995 cases have been recorded flight to carriers nationwide. A data review by GlobeLiveMedia it was found that in the Bajío region 1,414 were registered, which raises a question reduction of 209 such offenses.

Carrier flights in the Bajio Region continued its decline since the President’s statements in August 2020. What could be the outcome of the arrival of the National Guard to the highways of the country, which took place in 2019 and whose law indicates that among its activities is the preservation of heritage on federal highways.

A review of the data by GlobeLiveMedia indicated that the carrier flightsat least within the period of time comparable to the declarations of the President Lopez Obrador from January to August each year, have been reduced.

Data from the Executive Secretariat predicted that between these eight months, 1,205 flights were recorded in the Shallowbeing the state of higher incidence Michoacan, with 695 cases; Nationally, the number of crimes during this period was 5,677.

By 2022, the amount of carrier flight was further reduced in the first eight months of the year, racking up a total of 1,024 crimes over the seven Bajio entitieswith Michoacán again as the entity with the highest incidence, registering 504.

The year 2022 presented a contrast, because while the total number of crimes between January and August in the Bajío it was reduced, at the national level there was a increasereaching 5 thousand 707.

The presence of National Guard on the country’s highways has led it to become an authority assisted by the users of the Federal highways from the country.

Some of the reports presented by the society indicate that complaints are made by citizens, who give notice of the sighting of a robot or the presence of a abandoned vehicle.

It is then that patrols are carried out, that the origin of the vehicle is verified and that it is secured to be presented to the ministerial authorities.

This was the case recently in Guanajuato. elements of the National Guard patrolled the highway Irapuato – Zapotlanejo, in the section that goes from Pénjamo to La Piedad. There, at kilometer 058+000, they were notified of the theft of a trailer and its steel tube platform.

Once the agents of the National Guard arrived at the scene, it was verified that it was a truck reported stolen. The cargo vehicle was found in an abandoned state, and it was seized.

The same thing happened in Puebla in November 2022, when officers carried out prevention patrols crime on the Anillo Periférico Ecológico highway, in San Francisco Ocotlán.

National Guardsmen received a citizen complaint the presence of people unloading goods from a semi-trailer. Once there, the subjects who were there they fled the place and during the inspection of the vehicle, boxes containing polyethylene were located. Once insured, the vehicle was presented to the authorities.