Cruz Azul cooperative asks to comply with resolutions at the Tula plant

Mexico City. The management of the Cruz Azul cooperative, headed by Víctor Manuel Velázquez Rangel, demanded that the government of the state of Hidalgo comply with the court rulings in its favor, to recover the cement plant in Tula, which has not operated for four years with losses of 25 billion pesos.

Rafael Anzures Ortiz, legal director of the Cooperative, rejected the offer of the state Secretary of Government, Guillermo Olivares, who proposed a negotiation table to resolve the conflict. On the contrary, he asked him to apply the judicial resolutions that “have been notified to him for more than a year.”

He noted that the management of the Administration and Surveillance Council, headed by Velázquez Rangel and José Antonio Marín Gutiérrez, respectively, rejected the proposal, because “it is as if they were putting him to negotiate with kidnappers.”

He stated that far from attending to the judicial orders that have been notified to him personally by the sixth civil chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Mexico City, “he went to the factory that has been kidnapped for four years to see how it was doing and to say, Why not pay those people who are illegally holding this industrial unit instead?”

For this reason, they requested the intervention of state governor Julio Menchaca so that the resolutions issued by the courts are respected.

“We trust the governor, we know that he is a person of laws and that is precisely the reason why we are here today asking him to support these mandates that have reached other places in his government so that they can be fulfilled and in that sense Cruz Azul can recover your plant,” he said.

In a press conference at the corporate offices in Mexico City, Velázquez Rangel pointed out that in the last four years the Cruz Azul cooperative has been forced to increase production in the rest of its units in Oaxaca, Aguascalientes and Puebla “in order to be able to compensate for Hidalgo’s numbers.”

He indicated that before the conflict that began in 2020, its flagship plant located in the town of Jasso, municipality of Tula, produced between 35 and 40 percent of the total cement production of the Cruz Azul cooperative, one of the largest plants. of the country and Latin America, which also due to its proximity to Mexico City was one of the main companies that supplied cement to the central area of ​​the country.

He mentioned that the more than 100 people who have taken over the facilities were excluded from the Cooperative, after a members’ meeting was held in 2022, among them Federico Sarabia and other of his relatives, related to Guillermo “Billy” Álvarez, a fugitive from the justice.

“The actions of these people have been completely illegal and, as I told you, an Ordinary General Assembly of Partners was held where the entire procedure was carried out previously as established by the constituent bases and the law, that is, they were given the right to of defense, these people were given a voice, there were some who did not do it, there were others who did, some even appeared before the General Assembly and explained their reasons. And the General Assembly of Members decided to exclude them,” he commented.

He denounced that the more than a hundred people who keep the facilities occupied, “robbed the warehouses that were in the cooperative and sold that cement through billing companies.”