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Mexico City. In an unprecedented event, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo led the ceremony for the 177th anniversary of the Heroic Deed of the Boy Heroes of Chapultepec at the altar of the homeland.

This is the first time that the imminent successor, in this case the successor, of a president accompanies him to this military ceremony where honor is paid to the young people who defended Chapultepec Castle on September 13, 1847, when the invading U.S. army attacked Mexican sovereignty.

Along with the high command of the armed forces, the secretaries of National Defense, General Luis Cresencio Sandoval, and of the Navy, Admiral José Rafael Ojeda, the Chief Executive and the next president mounted an honor guard and placed a floral offering on the altar to the homeland.

Also present were the president’s wife, Beatriz Gutiérrez Muller, the head of government of Mexico City, Martí Batres, and the Secretary of the Interior, Luisa Alcalde.

As is tradition, the president entered the country aboard an all-terrain Army vehicle, accompanied by his imminent successor, followed by the Secretaries of Defense and the Navy.

The intention of the invaders, it was said at the ceremony, was to advance towards Chapultepec Castle, then the headquarters of the Military College, and a nerve center for the defense of the nation.

As is tradition, the president entered the country aboard an all-terrain vehicle of the Army together with his imminent successor, behind them the secretaries of Defense and Navy. Photo José Antonio López

With the honors required by military protocol, the head of the Executive and supreme commander of the armed forces performed the roll call of the heroes of that feat:

For the Military College, Lieutenant Juan de la Barrera and cadets Juan Escutia, Agustín Melgar, Vicente Suárez, Fernando Montes de Oca and Francisco Márquez; while for the Heroic Naval School, Lieutenant José Azueta and cadet Virgilio Uribe.

López Obrador also gave swords to six cadets—three women and three men—from the Heroica Colegio Militar, “as a symbol of their commitment to defend the country with honor.”

The only speaker at the event was third-year cadet from the Military College, Javier Enrique Valencia, who stressed that in this bloody battle of 1847, those who defended the nation “taught us that no matter the challenges that threaten the nation, none will be superior to the courage of the Mexicans.”

He added that the members of the Military College “were outnumbered and outgunned, and yet they fought with conviction and courage, teaching us that the homeland is everything.”

Heirs of those heroes, said Cadet Valencia, who today are part of the Heroic Military College, “we will defend the highest ideals of freedom and justice, as custodians of this legacy, in the face of any circumstance that affects our sovereignty, we will give everything for the honor of Mexico.”

Several cadets from the Heroic Military College fired a rifle salute in honor of the child heroes.

The ceremony concluded with the honor guard and the floral offering to those young people, almost all of them teenagers, who history has shown gave their lives for the nation.

Tulum, Quintana Roo. While celebrating that with only a few days left before his government ends there have been no currency devaluations and there is economic stability, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador questioned that there are sectors that are spreading fear because the judicial reform is going to be approved to banish corruption from the Judiciary. “We have about 20 days left and they are trying to confuse them that there is a lot of instability because we are going to carry out the judicial reform.”

“What fear will they have if what we want is to banish corruption? How are we going to do it? With the people, they are the ones who help purify public life,” said López Obrador.

During the inauguration of the Jaguar Park and the Museum of the Eastern Coast, López Obrador said: “They are there trying to stop this reform that is essential because we have to end the revolving door. A criminal is put in jail, it is very difficult to arrest them and the lives of police, marines and soldiers are risked to stop these little thugs. And during the week, especially on weekends, there is only one thing left to do. sabadazo A judge has ordered his release. We do not want that to continue happening in the courts.”

He was particularly insistent in his references to judicial reform and asked: “Do you think that judges, magistrates, ministers, are elected by the president or senators or the people?

López Obrador stressed that for 50 years the currency has been devalued every six years and this government has managed to maintain the strength of the currency. He recalled that he is already closing his cycle as president and as a politician: “Because in a few days I am going to Palenque because I have already fulfilled my duty. We have already managed to lay the foundations for the transformation. It was not only an economic crisis, it was a crisis of social well-being, politics, loss of values, cultural, moral and spiritual values, it was a decadence, a process of progressive degradation, to face a decadence it was only necessary to start a transformation that is a revolution.”

In her turn, the president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, highlighted the historic transition from López Obrador to the next administration. Smiling, she praised the president: “Many presidents admire the great BJ, AMLO, if not one of the best of the great presidents in the history of Mexico. He is among the greats.”

During her speech, Sheinbaum reaffirmed her commitment to continue with the principles of the fourth transformation, to govern with the principles of Mexican humanism. “All the Welfare programs will also be maintained, supporting the elderly, scholarships for young people, sowing life, young people building the future. All will soon be part of the Constitution of the Republic so that they become social rights of the people.”

Tulum, QRPresident Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his successor, Claudia Sheinbaum, inaugurated the Jaguar Park and the Museum of the Eastern Coast, a project associated with the Mayan Train that combines environmental protection, the recovery of historical heritage and vindication of the Mayan civilization. “This museum is one of the most beautiful. When you visit it, you will see how beautiful it is, one of the best museums in Mexico due to the work of archaeologists, the restorers,” said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Gallery: Jaguar Park and Museum of the Eastern Coast inaugurated

Continuing his tour of Quintana Roo, the president recalled the obstacles faced in building the Mayan Train: “Do you know how many injunctions the conservatives filed to stop us from building the Mayan Train? But they found that the people do want it, and when the people wanted it, they get stuck, so as not to say anything else. The conservatives.”

The Jaguar Park, which includes the Museum of the Eastern Coast, is an area that covers a thousand hectares in total, in which 2.7 billion pesos were invested. It is a work that, he said, shows that the Maya Train Project is something more than a railroad because it also involves environmental protection and the recovery and appreciation of the greatness of the Maya civilization, said the director of the National Institute of Anthropology and History, Diego Prieto, to whom the president made a public recognition.

Prieto added: “It is not just a train, it is the vindication of the southeast of Mexico, the Yucatan peninsula, justice and balanced growth, equality and the recovery of Historical Memory. We inaugurated the largest museum in the Tren Maya system.”

Eastern coast of the Caribbean coast of Mexico of the Mesoamerican Mayan world, unique cultural region, architectural styles, economy, interurban network.”

For his part, the Secretary of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development, Roman Meyer, stated that in parallel with the Mayan train and the archaeological recovery, it was a challenge to organize the territory.

Prieto explained that the museum has an area of ​​1,200 square meters with 300 original pieces and 50 reproductions, intended to vindicate Mayan greatness. It is an extensive civilizing trunk, one of the largest and the most continuous and extensive in the Mesoamerican region, spanning three millennia, with antecedents of 13 millennia.