After three years on strike, Senator Ricardo Monreal announced Thursday that the federal government will disappear Notimex, the news agency of the Mexican State.
In an interview before the media and without wanting to name her, the morenista and presidential candidate said that he cannot give further details of the proposal to close the agency; however, he affirmed that his workers will be liquidated according to the law.
“I am aware that there will be two organizations to be liquidated in the coming days: one from the rural finance company (National Finance for Agricultural, Rural, Forestry and Fisheries Development) and another from the media (notimex)”
“These are mechanisms that the law establishes (…) Everyone has to be liquidated in accordance with the law, everything is respected. I know that this proposal is already well advanced, ”he stressed.
After the announcement was released, countless reactions were generated on the networks, especially due to the controversial decision of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to appoint Sanjuana Martínez, a former journalist for Proceso and La Jornada, but affiliated with Obradorism, as the director in 2018. from Notimex.
“López Obrador sent the unpresentable corrupt woman from Sanjuana Martínez, who received a scholarship for three years without working for the treasury, to destroy Notimex. And she is about to achieve it ”, the analyst Fernando Belaunzarán published in this regard on Twitter.
“Sanjuana Martínez said that he would turn Notimex into the BBC, but in the end his work only caused his liquidation. In the end, the few who followed his game will not have a job either,” wrote the novelist Juan Omar Fierro.
“In the end, Sanjuana knew that La Jornada would be the new government news agency,” said journalist Carlos Torres.
The disappearance of the Mexican news agency comes to light two months after last February the spokesman for the Presidency, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, informed the leadership of the Single Union of Notimex Workers (SutNotimex) that López Obrador instructed them to will hold a scheduled meeting to find a solution to the labor problem.
How Notimex came to an end
At the end of February 2020, workers affiliated with the Single Union of Notimex Workers (SutNotimex) began a strike for alleged “unjustified dismissals” and violations of their collective agreement, accusations that the official information agency denied at all times.
Through a statement, the union indicated that the strike “occurs in an environment of harassment and harassment at work” undertaken by the director, Sanjuana Martínez.
“Workers have suffered mistreatment, gender violence and economic repercussions, as well as unfair dismissals and defamation”
At the time, AMLO celebrated the strike considering that it is a sign that the workers act freely.
Source: Infobae
