Government of Mexico sells Presidential Plane; Resources will be used to build hospitals in underserved areas.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador informed that the presidential plane was sold on April 20th.
In a video on his social networks, the leader made it known that the buyer is the government of Tayikistan, through his state committee for investment and property management; On April 20th, in accordance with the official assessment, he deposited 1,658,000 684,400 pesos into the account of the Instituto para Devolver al Pueblo lo Robado (Indep).
The general director of the Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Públicos (Banobras), Jorge Mendoza Sánchez, specified,
“The transaction is closed, now we have received the funds in their entirety. They are found in the account of the Institute to Devolver al Pueblo lo Robado. This is now a fact. This sale is going to generate, in addition to the funds we received, savings, first a savings of 232 million pesos in interest that the federal government had to pay to Banobras. With this amount, the lease and Banobras are liquidated in their place, the totality of the reception of these resources will be returned to the Treasury of the Federation so that they can be applied to projects in the health sector,” he pointed out.
He signaled that the sale of the presidential plane means the fulfillment of a commitment based on the coordinated action of Indep, Banobras, the Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional and the Presidency of the Republic.
The head of the Executive reiterated that the money will be invested in the construction of two hospitals of the IMSS Bienestar with 80 beds each, which will be inaugurated before the end of the Government of the Fourth Transformation.
They will be located in Tlapa, Guerrero and Tuxtepec, Oaxaca. Military engineers from the Secretariat of the National Defense will carry out the construction.
“Next week we are going to inform more about the plane in the morning; We are going to invite Ernesto, General Sandoval, Jorge to go into more detail, to make all the information known,” concluded the president.
He signaled that the purchase of the aircraft in times of Felipe Calderón for Enrique Peña Nieto contradicts austerity and is an example of ostentation and wasted funds.
“We were finally able to tackle this pending task, because it was difficult to find a customer, but yes, we found one. (…) It is important to make aware the government’s mindset of previous times; how the authorities acted like little pharaohs, and this should not be allowed. Do not repeat this ever again, it is offensive,” he remarked.
The head of the headquarters, Luis Cresencio Sandoval González and the director of the Instituto para Devolver al Pueblo lo Robado, Ernesto Prieto Ortega, participated in the announcement.
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