Juarez City.- The General Directorate of Government formally initiated the judicial process for the cancellation of 211 licenses for the sale of beer and wines and spirits to the Del Río chain of stores and its subsidiary Superette.
Since the middle of last week, establishments have reportedly stopped selling alcoholic beverages.
According to unofficial information, although the company had the protection of a federal judge that allowed it to continue selling, when this administrative process began, the act ceased to have any substance.
What follows now is that, once canceled, the owners of the company will have to request a new license, each with a value close to 160 thousand pesos, according to the Income Law of the State of Chihuahua.
The foregoing suggests a figure of 33 million 760 thousand pesos, which the company must disburse to the General Secretariat of Government to resume the sale of alcohol in its stores.
Yesterday a position was sought from Del Río’s legal representative, but he did not answer calls or messages on his personal phone.
According to Eloy García Tarín, director of the Government, the licenses with which these stores operated were granted by the State Government since the company was established in 1969, with a validity of 50 years, but they expired in 2019.
They did the paperwork to prolong said constitution, but they did not do the same paperwork before the Government.
The approval of a license, according to reports, can take up to four months, because a documentary physical review is first carried out in Ciudad Juárez, in terms of legal conditions and restrictions.
Subsequently, the opinion is transferred to the city of Chihuahua where it is subject to another review by the Undersecretary of Regulations, and finally the document ends up in the General Directorate of Government with the final signature.