More than 20 fatalities reported from this week’s rain: Friday’s mañanera recapped

The dense rainfall that fell successful assorted parts of Mexico connected Thursday and consequent flooding were a cardinal absorption of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Friday greeting property conference.

Later connected Friday, authorities successful 4 states reported fatalities linked to the rain.

Among the cities and towns affected by flooding are Poza Rica, Veracruz; Álamo, Veracruz; Huauchinango, Puebla; Huehuetla, Hidalgo; and Zihuatanejo, Guerrero.

More than 20 rain-related fatalities  

At the commencement of the mañanera, Sheinbaum said that nationalist Civil Protection main Laura Velázquez would articulation the property league via video nexus to talk astir “the concern with the rainfall successful antithetic parts of the republic.”

More than 20 radical mislaid their lives successful incidents related to dense rainfall connected Thursday and Friday, according to media reports published connected Friday afternoon. At slightest 16 deaths occurred successful Hidalgo, wherever rainfall associated with Hurricane Priscilla caused flooding and landslides. There were further fatalities successful Puebla, Veracruz and Querétaro, portion a fig of different radical person been reported arsenic missing.

Sheinbaum noted that it rained connected Thursday successful 31 of Mexico’s 32 national entities.

“Only successful Baja California Sur did it not rain,” she said.

On Thursday, it rained successful 31 of Mexico’s 32 national entities. (Juan Carlos Buenrostro/Presidencia)

Sheinbaum said that peculiarly dense rainfall had fallen successful the Huasteca region.

“[In] Veracruz mainly, but Querétaro, Hidalgo and San Luis Potosí were besides affected,” she said.

In summation to those states, Puebla and Guerrero received dense rainfall connected Thursday, Velázquez said.

“In Guerrero, successful Zihuatanejo, is wherever the highest rainfall was recorded, which was 151 millimeters,” the Civil Protection main said.

Tropical Storm Raymond dumped 2 months’ worthy of rainfall connected the Pacific seashore metropolis successful 1 day, according to Zihuatanejo Mayor Lizette Tapia Castro.

Velázquez besides reported that:

• Rain damaged 5,000 homes successful the municipality of Álamo, Veracruz.
• The Jalpan River successful Querétaro had burst its banks.
• Landslides had occurred successful Veracruz, Querétaro and Puebla.
• The Axtla River and the Moctezuma River successful San Luis Potosí burst their banks.
• A schoolhouse and a infirmary were flooded successful Puebla.

Velázquez said that shelters had been acceptable up successful Álamo, and noted that the service and the navy, on with different authorities, were responding to flooding successful antithetic parts of the country.

Veracruz, Querétaro, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, Puebla and Guerrero were the states astir affected by rainfall this week. (@Claudiashein/X)

She said that the Federal Electricity Commission was moving to reestablish powerfulness successful areas wherever work had been cut, including successful parts of Veracruz, San Luis Potosí and Puebla.

Velázquez said that rainfall would proceed to autumn successful antithetic parts of Mexico connected Friday and advised citizens to beryllium alert to authoritative connection channels and to travel “all the recommendations” issued by Civil Protection authorities.

On Friday afternoon, the paper La Jornada reported that 24 radical had died successful rain-related incidents, portion different media outlets reported somewhat little decease tolls. With astatine slightest 8 radical reported arsenic missing, it appears apt that the rain-related decease toll volition emergence implicit the weekend.

Adidas to compensate Oaxaca assemblage whose huarache plan inspired its Oaxaca Slip-On sandal 

Also astatine Sheinbaum’s Friday mañanera, Deputy Culture Minister Marina Núñez Bespalova told reporters that Adidas has committed to compensating the assemblage of Villa Hidalgo Yalalág, Oaxaca, whose signature huarache sandal craftsmanship inspired the German diversion apparel and footwear company’s Oaxaca Slip-On sandals.

Oaxaca threatens ineligible enactment against Adidas for its ‘Oaxaca Slip-On’ sandal

After accusations of taste appropriation, Adidas and the decorator of the Oaxaca Slip-On sandals issued apologies successful August.

Núñez said that meetings betwixt Adidas and “the affected community” had been held.

Representatives from the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property and Mexico’s copyright bureau Indautor besides attended the meetings, she said.

“Several agreements were reached with the brand,” Núñez said, adding that portion “the compensation agreement” cannot yet beryllium announced publicly, it involves Adidas backing “some” infrastructure projects that the assemblage of Villa Hidalgo Yalalág had requested.

She said that determination could beryllium “some benignant of collaboration” betwixt Villa Hidalgo Yalalág artisans and Adidas astatine immoderate constituent successful the future.

“But determination is already a compensation declaration for the community,” Núñez stressed.

Asked whether Adidas would beryllium allowed to merchantability its Oaxaca Slip-On sandals successful Mexico, the lawman civilization curate responded:

“No, no. They pulled those shoes disconnected the marketplace immediately; wrong a week, they were gone.”

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])