Sheinbaum outlines immediate priorities, orders probe into Interoceanic Train derailment: Monday’s mañanera recapped

Sunday’s tragic bid derailment successful Oaxaca was the main taxable of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Monday greeting property conference.

The president said she would beryllium traveling to the portion aboriginal successful the day to sojourn the injured and their families.

The president arrived successful Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, successful the aboriginal day connected Monday. (Carolina Jiménez Mariscal/Cuartoscuro)

Sheinbaum besides talked astir the Sonora River clean-up task and the arguable apprehension of a writer successful the Gulf Coast authorities of Veracruz.

Sheinbaum lists national priorities pursuing Interoceanic Train derailment

After Naval Minister Admiral Raymundo Morales provided an update connected the mishap and its victims, Sheinbaum elaborate the government’s 3 main concerns:

1. Guaranteeing attraction for victims and their families 

“I instructed the Navy Minister and the Undersecretary of Human Rights of the Interior Ministry to … personally be to the families,” she said, adding that she besides ordered delegates from the national nationalist wellness strategy to oversee attraction of the victims.

2. Clarifying the facts done the Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and the Oaxaca authorities prosecutor’s office

“The Transportation Regulatory Agency is besides required to behaviour a review, and due to the fact that determination were fatalities, the FGR indispensable participate,” she said, adding that the Interior Ministry volition oversee the operation.

3. Ensuring the information of the Interoceanic Railway

“The Navy volition instrumentality the constituent successful ensuring that the railway is harmless to run again,” she said. 

13 dormant and much than 100 injured aft bid derails successful Oaxaca

During his presentation, Admiral Morales said the enactment was successful bully operating information earlier the accident and nary adverse atmospheric conditions had been reported. He said a hi-rail had passed done the tract of the mishap astir 90 minutes earlier the derailment and recovered nary debris connected the tracks.

Officials supply update connected Sonora River clean-up program 

Environment Minister Alicia Bárcena said the Environmental Justice Plan addressing the 2014 spill of 40,000 m³ of copper sulfate into the Sonora River volition soon beryllium launched arsenic the authorities seeks to compensate the 20,000 radical surviving wrong a 300-kilometer agelong of the Sonora River Basin affected by the toxic pollutants.

Bárcena said the program focuses connected resolving nationalist wellness issues, ensuring entree to drinking water, boosting the section system and redressing the biology damage.

Efraín Morales, manager wide of the National Water Commission (Conagua), said a imperishable monitoring halfway that includes 3 automatic stations, 42 manual monitoring sites and a visualization halfway volition beryllium created successful the region.

The halfway volition absorption connected monitoring h2o prime successful existent clip to forestall monolithic contamination.

Its laboratory volition beryllium staffed by certified unit who volition measurement 64 parameters, including dense metals, metalloids and h2o toxicity.

The Sonora River turned reddish-orange aft a mining institution owned by Grupo México spilled hazardous discarded into it successful 2014. (Cuartoscuro/Rashide Frias)

Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez indicated that colony presumption were established betwixt the authorities government, the national authorities and Grupo México, the owners of the Buenavista del Cobre excavation liable for the spill. 

Rodríguez said Grupo México — accused of negligence — volition proviso 70% of the backing for the Environmental Justice Plan, oregon astir 1.5 cardinal pesos (US $83.4 million).

Sheinbaum questions apprehension of writer connected coercion charges

The president said connected Monday that she has nary thought wherefore Veracruz prosecutors charged writer Rafael León with coercion aft his Dec. 24 apprehension successful Coatzacoalcos.

⚠️ ALERTA: Imputación de @FGE_Veracruz a periodista Rafael León por “terrorismo” es un peligroso precedente contra la libertad de expresión.https://t.co/PhNEy7WgB3 pic.twitter.com/jLHyi6tEgd

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Sheinbaum said she was unaware of the crushed wherefore León, a writer who covers the constabulary beat, was apprehended, adding that his classification arsenic a violent makes nary sense.

State prosecutors did not place the circumstantial transgression helium is charged with, vaguely declaring that the penal codification refers to it arsenic coercion and alleged that helium “produced alarm, fearfulness and panic successful the population.”

“I would marque 3 points,” Sheinbaum said. “First, I don’t cognize wherefore the prosecution is utilizing the complaint of terrorism, due to the fact that determination has ne'er been a coercion complaint successful Mexico. Second, state of look indispensable beryllium guaranteed. And third, if this idiosyncratic has committed a transgression … the Prosecutor’s Office indispensable explicate it.”

Sheinbaum said Veracruz Governor Rocio Nahle has besides said she is unaware of wherefore coercion charges were filed.

“Interior Minister Rodríguez and I volition beryllium intimately monitoring this case,” Sheinbaum said.

León and different section journalists have antecedently exposed irregularities successful the actions of the Veracruz Prosecutor’s Office, alleging it uses the penal strategy to intimidate journalists and has sought to criminalize investigative journalism.

With reports from Infobae, Milenio, Debate, La Jornada and Article 19