Tijuana, March 23, During a tour of the Fidel Velázquez neighborhood - one of the hardest hit during the recent floods - Senator Jaime Bonilla, who is seeking reelection to office through the Labor Party, listened to the residents' demands and immediately called the municipal president, Monserrat Caballero, and asked her to assist them.
-Hello, Madam President, how are you?
-Hello, sir, very well, thank you very much, at your service.
This is how the conversation with Caballero began, which Bonilla broadcast live during his tour today. During this conversation, he handed the phone to Rosa, an affected neighbor, to explain the problem they're having because the local government left them with an unfinished project, piled with dirt that threatens to clog the gutters with the next rain.
The affected woman explained that water reaches her street from Insurgentes Boulevard and the Azteca neighborhood, which during the recent floods caused the water to destroy everything on the ground floor of her house.
Residents presented the candidate with various issues related to insecurity, abandoned land—one of which, they said, contains two half-buried bodies, they reported, and the Attorney General's Office hasn't addressed it—traffic, sewage spills, and the unfinished project that is causing problems among residents.
Unfinished work
In the work that the municipality left unfinished, the residents themselves decided to install toll booths to force drivers to slow down and avoid accidents, a situation that becomes more complicated on days when there is a street market.
"The PT political commissioner didn't hesitate to respond to the residents' cry for help and immediately called the mayor of Tijuana, expressing the residents' feelings, as well as the seriousness of the problem and the risk facing families in the area. Montserrat Caballero answered the Senator's call and expressed her government's support for immediately addressing this issue," the Labor Party said in a press release.
After the telephone conversation, Senator Bonilla expressed his gratitude to the mayor and said he would remain attentive to the municipal government's response to the problem facing this community.
