- Putting the military in multimillion-dollar businesses distorts its primary function.
Thanks to Guacamaya’s cyber punch to the Secretary of National Defense we know of the new multimillion dollar business that are gestated to be handled by the Army: a commercial airline, hotels and other beach tourism developments that will be added to the airports and the Mayan Train.
The model being copied is Cuban who, through the SA Business Administration Group which controls the revolutionary militia, even operates prostitution and drug dealing services.
Agustin Gutierrez Canet, in No strings attached yesterday in MILENIO, under the title No to the military-business ogre, He believed that including the Armed Forces in the president’s transexal project “smells like bribery”, and that with the passage of time it will be more difficult to submit them by the civil authority.
“For Mexico’s fragile democracy, the military incursion into private sector business means an ominous and illegal setback,” the retired ambassador wrote.
In the first (February 2020) of the two interviews (the second in October 2021) for El assault… on television, granted to me by the general who directed the construction of the civil airport at the Santa Lucía military air base, Gustavo Ricardo Vallejo revealed that Sedena will handle all the business (when it is) of the terminal.
The idea is that with the eventual profits they cover pensions and other benefits for military personnel, he told me, and López Obrador reiterated the same thing last week, when he acknowledged what happened with the commercial-military airline that Guacamaya discovered.
He also said:
“And why is it going to be a company of the Ministry of Defense? Well, to ensure that there is a custody, because it will cost them a little more —knock on wood— if they return. It is not the same to take it away and privatize it, as they did, if it is in the hands of Communications, than if it is in the hands of the Secretary of Defense…”.
The argument referred me to an unappealable maxim of Mao: “The power is in the gun”, but I cannot imagine the Sedena resisting bullets that do not take away another of the worrying businesses that AMLO is embarking on.
Agustín also recalled that “in an unusual and unprecedented manner, the Secretaries of National Defense and the Navy were invited by President López Obrador to the official visit to Cuba last May,” and that “they met with their Cuban colleagues to meet the operation of the GAE Group, controlled by the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, with annual revenues of 4.2 billion dollars.” He deplored the “hidden plans that Sedena has: to build and manage hotel developments in Uxmal and Calakmul, and eco-hotels in the Riviera Maya, as the Cuban military does in Varadero…”.
For the occurrence of ten sad aircraft and the unaffordable presidential plane, AMLO wants a name that makes one think of Mexico.
The mil-fleet, I propose, could be called Papantla Flyers for Well-being…
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