On behalf of the federal government, Rosa Icela Rodríguez complies with the President’s inaugural decree

In compliance with the first decree of President Claudia Sheinbaum, the Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, offered a public apology to the victims, their families and survivors of the 1968 movement. It was a reprehensible act of student and social repression that resulted in dozens of deaths, injuries, extrajudicial detentions and torture. With the Tlatelolco massacre, the exhaustion of the vertical and authoritarian repressive State was seen, which used the force of its institutions against the people.

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During Sheinbaum’s first conference, the secretary maintained that the actions of the Mexican State in that period were a crime against humanity, which was conceived, implemented and covered up by the highest authority of public power and the main responsibility fell on the then president. , Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.

Moments before, the Legal Counsel of the Federal Executive, Ernestina Godoy, partially read the presidential decree, in which Sheinbaum establishes that In my capacity as supreme commander of the armed forces, I assume the solemn commitment and will issue the corresponding formal orders for its structures and elements to never again be used to attack or repress the people of Mexico, and that training in human rights and construction be strengthened. of peace, the recognition of the historical facts mentioned here is assumed and their non-repetition is guaranteed.

Sheinbaum Pardo’s decree emphasizes that on behalf of the Mexican State, the non-repetition of this type of repression, acts of illegal deprivation of liberty, and the occurrence of torture practices and cruel treatment against some social groups is guaranteed. Anymore those types of events, guaranteed the President.

As part of the recitals of the decree, it is emphasized that this public apology aims to contribute to the truth and the preservation of the historical memory around this massacre, since until now there has been no political, express and formal recognition of the State’s responsibility. Mexican.

Rodríguez mentioned that he was especially addressing the relatives of the victims who were massacred and the survivors, because they were the ones who kept the memory of those atrocities alive and continue the fight and demand for justice.

This action is very important, because it is carried out from the Ministry of the Interior, where the repression of the people was implemented and where we now have the commitment and responsibility to promote freedoms and rights. In the current Mexican State there is a historic will to do justice, always in adherence to constitutional principles and the ideals of freedom and democracies.concluded Rodríguez.