Áporo, Michigan of Ocampo.- From the east of the entity, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador concludes the inauguration tour of new headquarters of the “Benito Juárez García” Universities for Well-being that he carried out in Pajacuarán, Chilchota and Áporo. During the opening in this municipality, he ratified:
“Before we finish the government there will be 200 schools. We have 145, and the remaining 55 will be from Nursing and Medicine, and one will be here.”
The president affirmed that the free public education system offers the opportunity to study for those who finish upper secondary level and, in the case of the Áporo headquarters, where he teaches the Agro-Food Process Engineering degree, helps young people not have to move to Morelia or other cities, but to stay in their region.
He explained the reasons why this administration opted for the creation of “Benito Juárez García” Universities for Well-being:
“We decided to support public universities, but also create this new system. Because there are public universities, some of which have already gone bad, there are already chiefdoms in public universities, and corruption.
“Then, the budget is given to them and as they are, and they must continue to be autonomous universities, the rectors and chiefs who manage those universities misuse the budget; For example, they use it to build buildings, because that’s where the bribe goes, that’s where the moche goes.
“And instead of paying the teachers well, instead of expanding the opportunity for them to have more students, the enrollment does not grow and they use the money to do works, where they make a killing.”
The president added that all the actions of the federal government are carried out with the support of the people, for which he recognized the university community and authorities of this venue for the effort in building, as well as the former municipal president of Áporo, Juan José Mendiola Loza, for the donation of the land, and the support of the governor of Michoacán, Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla.
After recalling that as a result of the intervention of the federal government, Michoacán is the only state that has a special item so that no teacher fails to get paid on time, he reported that 12 basic education schools in the municipality receive direct resources of 2.8 million pesos for maintenance of schools, and reiterated that as of January 2023 the amount of the scholarship for upper secondary level students will increase.
The general director of the Coordinating Body of the “Benito Juárez García” Universities for Well-being, Raquel Sosa Elízaga, announced the opening of the degree in Integral Medicine and Community Health as a second career that will be offered at the Áporo campus, in addition to the Engineering in Agrifood Processes. The latter trains professionals in the field of agricultural and livestock food production, distribution, transformation, marketing and consumption processes.
He recalled that other careers offered in various locations in the country are engineering in Agriculture and Agronomy, Agricultural Administration, Aquaculture and Fish Farming, as well as Agroforestry engineering.
Governor Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla highlighted that with the inauguration of the Áporo headquarters of the “Benito Juárez García” Universities for Well-being, the role it has played in history is returned to education, which is to incorporate people into development and enable the social mobility that allows to live with dignity.
Also accompanying President López Obrador were: the Secretary of Public Education, Leticia Ramírez Amaya; the Undersecretary of Expenditures of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), Juan Pablo de Botton Falcón; the academic coordinator of the Áporo campus of the UBBJG, Magdalena Bautista Paque; and the municipal president of Áporo, Juan Agustín Torres Sandoval.