After Andrés Manuel López Obrador left the Presidency of Mexico, everything has been speculation about what he does and how he leads his life. It is known that he lives in Chiapas, on his property, but how does he do it and who takes care of him?
43 days after leaving the Presidency of the Republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador continues to receive security from the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) at his farm located in Palenque, Chiapas.
According to a request for information with folio 3300264 24002874 made by El Universal, Sedena reported that former President López Obrador—who left his position on October 1 upon the arrival of Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo— He has a “security and protection scheme” in his private home located in Palenque, which is inherited from his parents..
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The department in charge of Ricardo Trevilla Trejo explained that The protection that the former president of Mexico receives is in charge of “a group of soldiers” belonging to the same military institution.
He made the above known when information was requested from the Sedena regarding whether the Government of Mexico provides personal security to former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on the occasion of the transition to the administration of the Morenista Sheinbaum Pardo, President of Mexico.
This newspaper published on October 7 that, with security cameras, new sidewalks and surveillance, the property he would occupy was already ready. López Obrador, who moved to that southern place after leaving the National Palace due to the arrival of Sheinbaum Pardo as constitutional President of the United Mexican States.
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Furthermore, he detailed that The perimeter of the “La Chingada” farm was fenced with wire and is guarded by security elementssince on one side of the Tabasco native’s farm there is a hotel that has a swimming pool where you can see the presence of video surveillance cameras pointing at the property.
A few meters further down there is an old wooden bridge that crosses a pond shared by both lands, an area that is constantly monitored by security elements.
López Obrador, upon beginning his administration in 2018, withdrew privileges (pensions and personal escort) from former presidents, including Vicente Fox Quesada and Felipe Calderón Hinojosa.
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However, in April 2019, the former president reported that Eight security elements were assigned to each of the former presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderónin response to the requests they made to continue preserving protection.
Calderón Hinojosa made a request through a letter in which he explained the reasons for having protection, and Fox Quesada published in 2019 on his Twitter account (now X) that an alleged armed commando tried to enter his home located in the state of Guanajuato.
López Obrador explained that they would have this protection for as long as necessary.
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Before, the man from Tabasco criticized that, although he was going to provide security to the former federal leaders, they would have to take charge of their own surveillance, and revealed that there were 80 elements in total, protecting them, so it was a budget of around 50 million of pesos for each former president.
According to the instructions given by the former president to the then head of the Sedena, Luis Cresencio Sandoval, he requested “an effective security team, without the excesses that the former presidents had, because there were many elements of the (disappeared) Presidential General Staff, dedicated in the care of the former presidents”.
Sheinbaum Security
A month before protesting as president of Mexico, and before the attack against the then Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States, Donald Trump, Sheinbaum ruled out reinforcing his security when he was in powersince that would distance her from the people, which goes against the principles of the self-called Fourth Transformation, in addition to the fact that she will not stop touring the country.
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El Universal has confirmed that Sheinbaum Pardo flies on planes with two assistants, who are close to her and who receive the requests that people make of her.while when leaving the airports he uses a Suburban-type truck and his escort travels in another vehicle. At public events, her same assistant team is the one that protects her, without firearms in sight and allowing people to approach her.
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