MEXICO CITY, Feb 18 — Relatives of a seven-year-old girl murdered in Mexico said yesterday the government had failed to protect her despite their pleas for help, while President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador appeared to blame the crime on neo-liberal economics. Fatima Cecilia Aldrighett went...
Tuesday, 18 Feb 2020 10:47 AM MYT
Fatima Cecilia Aldrighett went missing on February 11. Her body was discovered over the weekend inside a plastic garbage bag in Mexico City's Tlahuac neighborhood, only days after another murder of a young woman triggered angry protests. Lopez said precious hours were wasted after Aldrighett was reported missing. She also said social services had not heeded earlier calls to help the girl's mother, who has health problems, support her daughter.
The bigger challenge, he said, was to purify Mexican society, which he said had “fallen into decline, a progressive degradation that has to do with the neo-liberal model.Lopez Obrador regularly blames Mexico's most salient problems, such as corruption, poverty and violence, on policies implemented during the era of pro-market policies such as economic liberalisation starting in the 1980s.
“Now he is in charge, he is president ... He should show us he is different from past administrations.”
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