{"id":28026,"date":"2024-02-21T03:55:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T22:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/mexican-army-takes-over-highway-maintenance-filling-potholes-amlo-says\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T03:55:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T22:25:50","slug":"mexican-army-takes-over-highway-maintenance-filling-potholes-amlo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/mexican-army-takes-over-highway-maintenance-filling-potholes-amlo-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican army takes over highway maintenance, filling potholes, AMLO says"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ad_1]\n<\/p>\n

\n

Mexico\u2019s president acknowledged Tuesday that the armed forces have taken over yet another civilian role: fixing the nation\u2019s highways.<\/p>\n

Filling potholes has now been added to a long list of projects ranging from planes, trains and policing that the armed forces now control.<\/p>\n

President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador said highway maintenance in southern Mexico had been transferred away from the government’s Transportation Department.<\/p>\n

MEXICO’S PRESIDENT CONDEMNS REPORTS OF AN OLD US INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGED DRUG CAMPAIGN DONATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

The department usually gave private companies contracts for road maintenance but L\u00f3pez Obrador claimed those contracts were too expensive and riddled with corruption.<\/p>\n

“There are very few serious construction companies, because they were all rotten with corruption,” the president said.<\/p>\n

\n
\"Andr\u00e9s<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n
\n
\n

Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador speaks at a military parade in Mexico City on Aug. 13, 2021.<\/span> (AP Photo\/Fernando Llano, File)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

L\u00f3pez Obrador has given the armed forces the leading role in law enforcement, including the quasi-military National Guard, and entrusted them with far more duties than his predecessors.<\/p>\n

Late last year, L\u00f3pez Obrador put the army in charge of the government’s new state-owned airline. He also said the army would run a passenger train service, in addition to building everything from bank offices to airports.<\/p>\n

L\u00f3pez Obrador claims the military is more honest and efficient.<\/p>\n

Unlike many militaries in Latin America, Mexico’s armed forces have for almost a century kept out of politics and avoided taking a leading, public role.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/p>\n

Critics say L\u00f3pez Obrador’s measures threaten to break that tradition and militarize the country.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ad_1] Mexico\u2019s president acknowledged Tuesday that the armed forces have taken over yet another civilian role: fixing the nation\u2019s highways. Filling potholes has now been added to a long list of projects ranging from planes, trains and policing that the armed forces now control. President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador said highway maintenance in southern Mexico …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}