2023-04-18 04:27:52
This is the most important news today, April 17, in Mexico: an accident occurred at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) in which two aircraft that were on the runway were involved. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court today took the first step to stop the integration of the National Guard into the ranks of the Army.
News from Mexico
- Fight between migrants in the center of Juárez leaves several injured and a building set on fire
A fight involving Venezuelan migrants who lived in an abandoned building in the center of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, left at least four people injured and a building set on fire.
The confrontation, which occurred on the afternoon of this Monday, April 17, apparently began because a group of homeless people attacked the migrants to gain control of the abandoned property in which they lived, according to information released by Azucena Uresti. .
- Murillo Karam charged with alleged torture of Guerreros Unidos hitman
The Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) filed a new charge against Jesús Murillo Karam, who was head of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) during the six-year term of Enrique Peña Nieto, for alleged acts of torture against Felipe Rodríguez, alias ‘El Cepillo’, hitman for the criminal group Guerreros Unidos and implicated in the disappearance of the 43 from Ayotzinapa.
During a hearing held this Monday at the South Prison in Mexico City, Judge Felipe de Jesús Delgadillo Padierna charged a new charge under the crimes of torture, forced disappearance and coalition of public servants, according to information from José Cárdenas, a collaborator Formula Group.
- Cold front 50 arrives… in spring: it will cause winds of up to 70 km/h in these states
Almost a month after the start of spring, the heat continues to take over the country, but the 50th cold front will refresh with winds of up to 70 kilometers per hour (km/h) in several states.
According to the forecast of the National Meteorological Service (SMN), as of April there are only two more frontal systems left, counting the one that will approach from next Wednesday.
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- Mayan Train will ‘reach’ the US and Canada: A strategic ally will connect it with North America
The company Pacific Canadian Kansas City de México (CPKC) will seek to be a strategic partner and offer connections to North America with two of the flagship infrastructure projects of Q4: the Trans-Isthmic Corridor and the Mayan Train.
According to its president in Mexico, Óscar del Cueto, who announced the recent integration of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern, stressed that this new measure will allow the company to make “seamless” connections between the ports of Mexico, those in the east from the United States and all from Canada.
- Division in the Court: ministers Zaldívar and Esquivel support the National Guard in Sedena
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) today took the first step to stop the integration of the National Guard into the ranks of the Army after approving the first part of the project that proposes to invalidate the proposed reform in September 2022, this in in the middle of a session during which the ministers Yasmín Esquivel and Arturo Zaldivar defended with extensive speeches the security strategy of the so-called fourth transformation (4T).
This Monday, April 17, the plenary session of the Supreme Court was held during which the project presented by Minister Juan Luis González Alcántara was discussed to declare the transfer of the GN to the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena) unconstitutional. .
- Chaos in San Cristóbal: They assassinate a leader of artisans and motorcyclists burn vehicles and tires
One dead person and dozens of closed stores and establishments is the balance in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, after the murder this midday of a business leader and the departure of hundreds of motorcyclists to frighten the population in that town.
According to the report by Argenis Esquipulas, a correspondent for Grupo Fórmula in Chiapas, around noon this Monday the attack against Jerónimo Ruiz, a leader of artisans, occurred in Alameda de Santo Domingo, north of San Cristóbal de las Casas. .
- And Sanjuana Martinez? They exclude it in final negotiations between Segob and the Notimex union
After two hours of dialogue at the Ministry of the Interior, the meeting between government officials and the Notimex union concluded behind closed doors… but without Sanjuana Martínez, the agency’s director until now.
The Single Union of Notimex Workers participated in the meeting; the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López Hernández; the Secretary of Labor, Luisa María Alcalde Luján; and the spokesman for the presidency, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas.
- It ‘drizzles’ the peso: it falls back a little against the dollar and closes at 18.02
The Mexican peso began the week with a (very) slight decline against the dollar: the currency closed this Monday at 18.0282 units per greenback, according to data from the Bank of Mexico (Banxico).
Last Friday, the currency was trading at 18.0260 at the end of the day, according to information from the central bank.
- Another attack on civilians: They accuse that the National Guard shot and killed 2 in Nuevo Laredo
Elements of the National Guard (GN) fired this Sunday against civilians in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, without any aggression being reported against the agents so far, and killed 2 people, including a pregnant woman, who She lost her 8-month-old baby.
According to the report by Raymundo Ramos, president of the Nuevo Laredo Human Rights Committee, who met with one of the survivors of the attack, Luis Adán Rodríguez, 25, on Sunday afternoon while he and his family were traveling through the Mexico 2 bypass for heavy-duty vehicles, the National Guard agents opened fire on his truck.
- The atrocities of the Chapitos: they fed animals with live people, DEA infiltrators reveal
The United States Department of Justice not only accused 28 members of the Sinaloa Cartel of trafficking fentanyl and money laundering, but also revealed the atrocities committed with their victims by the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, better known as ” The Chapitos’.
During a press conference, DEA administrator Anne Milgram announced that elements of the corporation had infiltrated the Sinaloa Cartel for a year and a half.
- They locate Ceci Flores: the activist is in good health, confirms AMLO
After reports were presented about the disappearance of Ceci Flores, president and founder of the Madres Buscadoras de Sonora collective, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) reported that she was located and is in good health.
“The lady has already appeared, who is in good health,” said the federal president. However, he did not provide more information about it. In addition to this, Governor Rubén Rocha of Sinaloa confirmed the facts.
CDMX News
- Accident at the AICM: two planes collide on the runway
This Monday there was an accident at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) in which two aircraft that were on the runway were involved.
Through a brief statement posted on its Twitter account, the capital’s aerodrome reported that two planes collided while circulating on one of the AICM taxiways.
World News
- Musk is ‘primed’: Takeoff of the Starship rocket to go to the Moon is suspended
The long-awaited takeoff of the SpaceX space company’s Starship rocket, considered the most powerful ever built, could not take place this Monday due to technical problems from the billionaire Elon Musk’s company facilities in Texas, United States and is delayed for at least 42 hours.
SpaceX technicians gave up the takeoff of the Starship, 120 meters (394 feet) long and which had a 150-minute window from 8:00 a.m. Central United States time (1:00 p.m. GMT) to leave, temporarily postponed the test of reaching orbital speeds and exceeding 240 kilometers above the earth’s surface.
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