The star program of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Sembrando Vida, again registered anomalies in its second year of implementation that resulted in more than 901 million pesos to be clarified, according to the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF). In the third installment of the review of the 2020 Public Account, corresponding to the second year of the current administration, the auditing body details that resources were used without accrediting supporting and supporting documentation, ‘cash deliveries’ were made and support was granted to people whose ages do not correspond to active agricultural producers.
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Tabasco benefited from the Sembrando Vida program in its first year of operation. Even though it was not the state with the highest rate of marginalization or population below the well-being line, it became the second with the most participants in 2019.
Although the audit carried out on 94.9% of the more than 25,000 million pesos allocated to the program in 2020, indicated that the budget assigned to the “Sembrando Vida Program” was exercised and recorded in accordance with the approved amounts and in accordance with the legal provisions and applicable regulations on the matter, various irregularities were found. The review of the program found that ordinary economic support was granted ‘direct cash delivery’ modality to 18,538 people for a total of 243.8 million pesos without accrediting with the supporting documentation, that these were delivered to the beneficiaries of the program. In the same way, the auditing body detected that additional economic support was given to 19,743 legal subjects for a total of 565.5 million pesos without being accredited with the supporting documentation presented by the beneficiaries that supports the application of program resources in the authorized goods and services. The report also notes that the Welfare Secretariat, currently in charge of Ariadna Montiel, reported 81 million pesos as exercised in the Public Account, without proving that they were used for the granting of economic support to the subjects of law, or in its case, its reimbursement to the Treasury of the Federation. The dependency granted ordinary economic support to 12 people for a total amount of 412,000 pesos, without proving that the beneficiaries are part of the target population, since their age is 97 years, according to their CURP, which does not correspond to agricultural producers. assets.
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In addition, the Welfare Secretariat also distributed 10.2 million pesos in the ‘dispersion through account payment’ modality, to 767 beneficiaries without proving the origin of their delivery for the fulfillment of the activities of their work plan. In terms of operation, the Superior Audit stated that in the Internal Regulations and in the General Organization Manual of the Welfare Secretariat in force in fiscal year 2020, the functions and powers for the operation and execution of the “Sembrando Vida Program” are not established. , nor in the manuals of Organization and Procedures of the Undersecretary of Planning, Evaluation and Regional Development, as the administrative unit responsible for the operation and execution. The results of the audit carried out derived in 13 recommendations, a promotion of the exercise of the power of fiscal verification, two requests for clarification, six promotions of sanctioning administrative responsibility and three sheets of observations. It is not the first time that anomalies have been detected in the implementation of the program. In reviewing the Public Account 2019, more than 1,832 million pesos were found unclarified, in addition to deficiencies in its design. According to the Performance Index of Federal Public Programs (INDEP) 2021, prepared by the non-governmental organization Social Management and Cooperation (GESOC), the program has a low quality of design and low fulfillment of goals, as well as low levels of coverage of its potentially beneficiary population .
Sowing Life: those expelled for raising their voices
Sembrando Vida is a program of the federal government, whose main objective is to combat rural poverty and for this, 5,000 pesos are granted monthly to the beneficiaries and until last year, 500 pesos were withheld for a savings fund. Political Expansion and CONNECTAS published an investigation last October in which the opacity and discretion with which the program operates are revealed. Complaints of mismanagement were documented that are investigated slowly and, for now, with no results, while the farmers are easily reprimanded and, in some cases, expelled. This, added to the opacity with which more than 4,200 million pesos are kept in savings of the more than 426,000 beneficiaries of the program, which have been changed accounts without notifying the farmers, nor about the yields that their mandatory contribution will leave.