The dialogue table between federal authorities and the leaders of the National Association of Transporters (Antac) and the National Front for the Rescue of the Mexican Countryside (Fnrcm), concluded this Tuesday without agreements, and with the warning of these groups to maintain the road blockades that began on Monday for as long as necessary.
They considered that there was no disposition from the federal government and requested, in addition to a change of interlocutors, and the departure of the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Julio Berdegué Sacristán.
After entering the dialogue table at the headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior at 2:00 p.m., before the authorities present, among whom were Berdegué and the Undersecretary of the Interior, César Yáñez, as well as the Secretary of the Economy, of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation and the National Water Commission (Conagua), they presented their demands and requests from both groups.
Behind them, Yáñez told them that “to continue in the meeting we had to vacate the protest points that are on the roads, on international bridges and at customs. We asked them for a statement of what points they committed to resolve. No one spoke, only Mr. Yáñez and they never committed to anything,” explained Eraclio Rodríguez, leader of the Fnrcm.
For this reason, he stressed, “we are not going to withdraw from the bridges, the roads or the customs until they give us certainty that things are going to work, what we perceive is that there is not the slightest political will of the Mexican State to resolve the mobility crisis that exists in the country.”
They will wait for the federal authorities to “call us again with a different perspective and will,” he added.
