president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador surpasses his Morning conference on January 24th from the National Palace after the meeting he has every day with his Security Cabinet to analyze the situation in that area of the country.
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López Obrador spoke to Biden about Assange at a meeting in the CDMX
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that at the bilateral meeting with his US counterpart Joe Biden in Mexico City, he spoke about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is calling for his release.
“We are talking but I can’t talk because it is very important to me that we achieve Assange’s freedom (…), we must respect the decision of the United States government and that is my obligation,” he said, adding that the founder of WikiLeaks is not a spy but a journalist.
Mexico takes action over $700 million in García Luna trial in Florida: López Obrador
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said his government is striving for it Recovering $700 million in a lawsuit against Genaro García Luna in Florida of wealth and other assets he allegedly gained from his drug dealing connections.
“What we’re going to try to do is collect the money, also there’s a lawsuit, $700 million in Florida, and their attorneys argued Mexico had no reason to go there to sue and a Florida court agreed with us to say it that we can and it’s being worked on, $700 million and other potential assets, that’s going ahead,” he said.
The trucking companies are given a reasonable time to switch to AIFA, not a year: López Obrador
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rejected the one-year transit time proposed by some air freight carriers to move from Mexico City International Airport to Felipe Ángeles International Airport, although he said they would get one “reasonable time” consisting of 90 days as set out in the draft regulation.
“They sent me those who do cargo transports, I spoke to them, but they have been around for a while and they decided that they will start bringing their shipments, their cargo and the planes at AIFA. DHL, they are coming and they want me to leave and I am leaving at the end of February, they are launching their first flights and they will only use AIFA,” he said.
We’re about to rescue the bodies of the miners in El Pinabete: López Obrador
After five months Landslide at the El Pinabete mine in Coahuilaassured President Andrés Manuel López Obrador They are “close” to rescuing the workers’ bodies that they were trapped as they continued to work in the area to retrieve the bodies.
“It’s going well, we’re going to ask Laura (Velázquez, National Civil Protection Coordinator) to issue a report today because we’re going pretty well. I would say we’re already close to recovering the bodies because we’ve been working, but today we have the report,” he commented.
A complaint is being made to prevent the saxophonist’s attacker from leaving prison: López Obrador
Following a decision by a common law judge to allow the thought leader of Acid attack on the saxophonist María Elena Ríos They are taking their trial under house arrest, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said they are doing one Complaint to prevent him from leaving prisonas it is an “extreme assault on a woman for attempted murder of a woman”.
“This unfortunate affair involves a judge from Oaxaca, we will say the common law that grants this freedom for the person guilty of the crime against the saxophonist to go home and the trial will continue there. He was not released from prison because the matter is under review by the Attorney General of the Republic because it is an extreme assault on a woman because it is attempted femicide, something very serious that I think he is into these days must leave the information; The person responsible has not yet been released from custody,” he said.
Trial of García Luna, “very shameful”: López Obrador; no “convincing evidence” was presented
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured that the The case of Genaro García Luna is ‘very shameful’ because he was a senior authority in charge of public safety in Felipe Calderón’s government and who “had a dual role”so the allegations of the US government.
“At the same time that he was in charge of public security, he protected one of the cartels or organized crime groups, he was in the service of an organized criminal group and received money for it,” said the president, who assured this So far there has been “no reliable evidence” against the former official and announced that the hearings would be reported at its conferences.
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