“Amnesty Law can unblock the Ayotzinapa case”

The federal government is confident that the Silence pact in the Ayotzinapa case based on the legal reform that empowers the head of the Executive to grant amnesty to people sentenced or under criminal proceedings who provide information to know the truth in cases relevant to the State.

Yesterday, in the conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, it was pointed out that the reform of the Amnesty Law, approved on Wednesday by the Senate and which has yet to receive the endorsement of the Chamber of Deputies, is important because it opens the possibility of giving that benefit in particular cases, such as the disappearance of the 43 students.

What we want is to find young people and we are making a major effort so that those who know or who know where they might be can provide information. And the idea is to have a legal framework that allows us to move forward in breaking that pact of silence.declared the Secretary of the Interior, Luisa María Alcalde, in the National Palace.

On the other hand, it was stated that the reform of the Amparo Law, also approved by the Senate, will prevent judges and magistrates from issuing provisional suspensions that stop legal reforms without having gone to the bottom of the matter.

The official assured that the reform is related to a power exceeded by judges and magistrates, where, if a person presents constitutional protections or controversies against laws approved by Congress, suspension with general effects is not appropriateas happened with the electrical law, textbooks, as well as with works and projects such as the Mayan Train.

Regarding the reform to create the Welfare Pension Fund, the President considered that the legislators were right to postpone its discussion. “They did well to say ‘there is this error, which has no bad intentions, let’s hope’, because if not, they will take it from there and declare the law unconstitutional.”

He insisted that the objective of the reform is repair the damage caused by neoliberal governments with two changes to the pension law made by the governments of Ernesto Zedillo and Felipe Calderón that resulted in a decrease in this support.

He highlighted that the current reform seeks to strengthen pensions so that those who retire can collect at the time of retirement the equivalent of 100 percent of their last active salary.