Although 17 tropical storms, 14 hurricanes, various earthquakes and 2,885 forest fires have been recorded in the country so far this year, The resources destined to respond to natural disasters were not touched in the first semester and it is unknown if part of the resources were used in recent days.
According to the quarterly reports of the Ministry of Finance, until June 30, not a single peso of the Provisions for the Disaster Fund had been used. the Disaster Prevention Fund and the Fund to Assist the Rural Population Affected by Weather Contingencies, despite the fact that in the Federation’s Expenditure Budget for 2025 more than 19 billion pesos (mp) were earmarked for that purpose.
What was recorded was a cut to these resources by more than 2 billion pesos, which reduced the budget to just over 17 billion.
According to official figures, the National Fund for Natural Disasters (Fonden) received a budget of 18,914 million pesos; however, In the following months, this amount was cut to 16,765.9 million. Of that total, the resources spent in the first semester are 0 percent.
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Has the money been used or not for emergencies due to Natural Disasters?
Regarding the Fund for the Prevention of Natural Disasters (Fopreden), the report indicates that It received 237 million pesos in the Federation Expenditure Budget (PEF) 2025, but was later cut to 79.6 million. Even so, the resources exercised in the first semester were also 0 percent.
The above is worrying, since many of the disasters and natural emergencies that occurred in the country occurred in the reported period from January to June.
The hydrometeorological events with the greatest impact in that period were Hurricane “Erick.” —happened on June 10—, which generated severe flooding and landslides in Oaxaca and Guerrero. In addition to claiming the lives of three people, 28 injured and economic losses estimated at 250 million dollars, mainly due to damage to homes, hotels and restaurants.
Weeks later, Tropical storm “Alvin” affected Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán, Nayarit and Baja California Sur, and although there were no human losses, economic damage was reported.
They attack the ineptitude that Morena has shown
The vice economic coordinator of the PAN parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies, Saúl Téllez Hernández, recalled that The majority of Morena and its allies in Congress approved the extinction of 109 public trusts, including Fonden, with the argument of combating corruption and avoiding “nests of vices” in the administration of funds.
Téllez explained that the Fonden was maintained in its place, “but no longer as an agile fund for immediate disposal,” but as a federal budget program administered by the Ministry of Finance.
“How does it work now? Funds are released via presidential decrees or budget reallocations, slow and cumbersome procedures. The SHCP has to carry out budgetary movements and rearrangements in order to have the necessary liquidity, many times not with the immediacy required by the severity and urgency of natural disasters, something that the defunct trust did have, since the resources were located in it and with the necessary and timely liquidity.”he declared.
The deputy maintained that Fonden’s budget management, which remains inoperative, “exhibits serious irresponsibility on the part of the federal government.”
“An irresponsibility materialized in the arbitrary reduction of 2,068.6 million pesos, a unilateral subtraction that not only constitutes preventive sabotage of the state’s response capacity against climate risks, but also deliberately magnifies the vulnerability of the communities and, worst of all, that no expenditure was made.”
»This implies that Fonden and Fopreden remained inoperative in the first half of the fiscal year, which additionally indicates that, “There should be sufficient resources to meet the needs of the latest tragedies derived from the natural disasters that have occurred in recent days.”, he concluded.
Until now It is unknown if the Fonden and Fopreden resources were used in the third quarter of the year, which would help mitigate the damage caused by torrential rains and floods.
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