Mexico seeks extradition of US-based fuel smugglers: Thursday’s mañanera recapped

President Claudia Sheinbaum held her Thursday greeting property league astatine the National Palace successful Mexico City earlier traveling to Puebla to instrumentality portion successful a Mexican Army Day event.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s Feb. 19 mañanera.

CDMX-AIFA obstruction enactment scheduled to unfastened earlier Easter 

Sheinbaum told reporters that the bid enactment betwixt the Buenavista presumption successful cardinal Mexico City and the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) successful México authorities volition statesman operations “before Holy Week.”

Holy Week begins this twelvemonth connected March 29 — Palm Sunday — and concludes connected Easter Sunday connected April 5.

Before Sheinbaum indicated that the CDMX-AIFA enactment volition unfastened adjacent month, the government’s obstruction czar Andrés Lajous said that railroad verification tests were concluding and the commencement of “dynamic tests” was conscionable 1 time away.

The bid enactment to AIFA is an hold of Mexico City’s suburban railroad, which links Buenavista to Cuautitlán successful México state.

The bid volition instrumentality passengers 30 kilometers from the Buenavista Station to the AIFA airdrome successful 43 minutes, connecting with the Tren Suburbano and Line B of the Mexico City Metro. (Andrea Murcia / Cuartoscuro.com)

Construction of the enactment betwixt the Lechería presumption and AIFA began during the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose authorities built the airport.

AIFA opened successful March 2022, and rider numbers person gradually accrued since then.

The airdrome is located astir 50 kilometers northbound of cardinal Mexico City successful the México authorities municipality of Zumpango. The national authorities hopes that the opening of the bid line  volition pb to an summation successful rider numbers astatine AIFA. The travel from Buenavista to the airdrome volition instrumentality astir 40 minutes.

Mexico seeking extradition of U.S. businesspeople allegedly progressive successful substance smuggling

Sheinbaum told reporters that much arrests are inactive to beryllium made successful transportation with the transgression of huachicol fiscal — i.e. the evasion of taxes connected gasoline and diesel brought into the country.

Members of the Mexican Navy are among the radical who person already been arrested successful transportation with the crime, but the president stressed that Navy Minister Raymundo Pedro Morales Ángeles is not nether investigation.

She besides said that Mexico has requested the extradition of “some businesspeople” from the United States who were allegedly progressive successful the “entry of substance to Mexico without paying taxes.”

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Sheinbaum said that it was up to the Federal Attorney General’s Office to supply the names of those businesspeople, if it is successful a presumption to bash so.

Asked whether authorities were seeking the extradition of “the Jensens,” the president responded that they, “among others,” are wanted successful Mexico.

The Jensens are a Utah mates and their big sons, each of whom look charges successful the United States for allegedly smuggling US $300 cardinal worthy of crude lipid successful collaboration with Mexican transgression organizations.

Fentanyl-laced tamales?

A newsman asked the president what accusation she had astir the lawsuit of a 10-year-old miss who tested affirmative for fentanyl aft eating a tamal astatine a thoroughfare nutrient basal successful the municipality of Huauchinango, Puebla.

The Puebla authorities said connected Tuesday that 7 children received aesculapian attraction aft they presented symptoms of nutrient poisoning “allegedly resulting from the depletion of tamales.”

Six of the children were “stabilized” and discharged from hospital, but a 10-year-old miss remains “under aesculapian observation” aft she tested affirmative for fentanyl, the authorities said successful a statement. It said that the applicable authorities were advised of the concern and would investigate.

After 7 Puebla children were hospitalized for symptoms of nutrient poisoning aft eating tamales, 1 miss tested affirmative for fentanyl, starring to speculation that the tamales were laced with the drug. (File photo)

Sheinbaum said she asked national Attorney General Ernestina Godoy and information and wellness officials to find retired “if it truly was fentanyl” that made the miss ill, and if so, to analyse however the cause got into the tamales.

Later connected Thursday, the Puebla Attorney General’s Office (FGE) said that the girl’s affirmative trial for fentanyl was owed to medicine she was administered successful hospital, alternatively than thing she ate.

It said that urine samples were collected from children and adults who ate the tamales successful question, and investigating didn’t observe the beingness of immoderate “drugs of abuse.”

The FGE besides said that samples of the tamales were being tested to “determine with precision the imaginable root of the poisoning.”