FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18
PROGRAM # 8719 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
The brief capture and then release of the son of “El Chapo” Guzmán, showed the weaknesses of the security forces of the Mexican government, say critics of the conservative opposition and corporate media who push for hard-line policies. In fast and coordinated actions, goons from the Sinaloa cartel surrounded the military team who were holding Ovidio Guzmán, unleashed shootings and burned vehicles in the streets of Culiacán, also causing the evasion of inmates from the Aguaruto prison. Faced with that violence, the detained drug lord was released, according to President López Obrador to protect the civilian population and prevent a bloodshed of incalculable proportions. In other news: it is announced that starting on 2020 and thanks to the proposed General Water Law, water concessionaires must pay for the consumption of large volumes of this liquid, which will reduce the influence of the “hydrocracy that strangles ejidatarios, communities and smallholders through the control of megaconcessions,” says an expert. On another issue, the leader of the union of oil professionals, calling their salary cuts illegal, announced that they are preparing hundreds of labor lawsuits against Pemex. Finally, the Mexican government announced that it will subsidize the application fees for Mexican emigres who cannot afford the renewal fee for their temporary residence DACA permit in the United States. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this broadcast from Mexico City.
Guests: Elena Bours, activist, Water for All, Water for Life, Mexico City; (recorded interviews) Pablo López Figueroa, Secretary General of the National Union of Oil Technicians and Professionals; Carlos González Gutierrez, Consul of Mexico, San Diego, CA; (audio recording) Andrés Manuel López Obrador, constitutional president of Mexico.
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