Felipe Calderón justifies the security strategy in his administration

Former Mexican President Felipe Calderón insists that the security strategy he implemented during his six-year term, from 2006 to 2012 in Mexico, was adequate. “There are only two options: either you confront or evade and abdicate before the criminals, and I decided to confront them because it is the right thing to do, because it is the right thing to do, because it is the ethical thing to do and the constitutional and legal obligation of a president of the Republic,” said this tomorrow in a radio interview with Ciro Gómez Leyva in RadioFormula.

Following the sentencing of Genaro García Luna this Wednesday in a New York court and Judge Brian Cogan’s assertions that the defendant had “a double life,” Calderón said he had no knowledge of those activities. “I knew one of the lives, so I would have liked to know the other in time,” Calderón Hinojosa acknowledged. “It is a complex, difficult, painful situation, what has happened hurts me a lot,” he said this morning in the radio broadcast.

For the former president, it was a very tough six-year term, but he has been judged “mercilessly” for twelve years. “For twelve years it was said that the strategy was bad and they abandoned many things we did: information, intelligence and the formation of institutions,” he added.