International
Death toll rises to five due to weather phenomena in Mexico
October 12 |
The death toll from the double whipping of cyclones Lidia and Max rose to five on Wednesday in Mexico after the death of two people was reported in Jalisco, a state in the western part of the country.
Among the damages caused by tropical storm Max in Mexico, it is reported the collapse of a part of the road to Acapulco, as well as more than 200 people affected by the meteorological phenomenon and several injured.
The passage of tropical storm Max along the Mexican Pacific coast caused on Monday the death of at least two people and injured another in Guerrero, in the south of the country, informed on Tuesday the Secretary of Integral Risk Management and Civil Protection of the state government.
On the other hand, a person died while crossing a river in the municipality of Pihuamo, according to the governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro, on his social networks, while the Army reported the death of another person from a heart attack in Autlán after the evacuation of the regional hospital, which was flooded by the rains.
Meanwhile, a man died after a tree fell on his car during the storm near the Punta Mita tourist center, informed Miguel Ángel Navarro, governor of the state of Nayarit, to the north of Jalisco.
The national coordinator of Civil Protection, Laura Velázquez, informed that hurricane Lidia, which hit mainly Jalisco, Nayarit and Colima, and which on Tuesday was classified as category 4, decreased its intensity during the early hours of the morning, but heavy rains will continue in some entities.
Lidia was downgraded from hurricane to tropical storm and is moving over land to the north of Baja California Sur, informed the National Meteorological Service (SMN).
It maintains intense rains and strong winds over the Baja California Peninsula, Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco and Colima, in addition to high waves on the coast of these states.
Lidia and Max are the twelfth and thirteenth named cyclones of this season in the Pacific, where Adrian, Beatriz, Calvin, Dora, Eugene, Fernanda, Greg, Hilary, Irwin, Jova and Kenneth have also formed.
International
Uruguay clears two ex-consuls of involvement in russian passport fraud case
The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Uruguay announced on Tuesday that it has requested the dismissal of charges against two former Uruguayan consuls in Russia accused of participating in a scheme involving the issuance of false passports, a case linked to the former head of security for President Luis Lacalle Pou.
The scheme, which involved providing Russian citizens with falsified documents to obtain Uruguayan passports, relates to a criminal organization that has been operating since 2015, according to investigations.
Judicial documents indicate that the diplomat identified by the initials S.D.C.M., who served as Uruguayan consul in Moscow from 2013 to 2018, was charged in late November 2022 with fraud and “14 crimes of identity assumption.”
The other consul, identified as G.L.P.M., was indicted in March 2023 for committing “repeated crimes of identity assumption.” He had served in Russia from February 2019 until February 2022.
“However, the Public Prosecutor’s Office continued investigating and dismissed the involvement of both consuls in the scheme,” the office said in a statement on Tuesday.
Prosecutor Sabrina Flores argued that “both officials did not speak Russian,” and that “from the forensic analysis of their cell phones, there is no evidence to hold them accountable for the investigated events.”
Additionally, the statement said that “on several occasions when passports with falsified documents were processed,” the consuls “were not in the country” or were “on leave.” It was also discovered that their signatures had been “forged.”
In the context of this case, the former head of security for Lacalle Pou, Alejandro Astesiano, was sentenced in February 2023 to four and a half years in prison for conspiracy and influence peddling, among other crimes, following a plea deal.
For good behavior, in May of this year, he was granted early release on probation under police supervision, a decision that the Public Prosecutor’s Office did not appeal.
International
Migrants gather in caravans for protection on dangerous journey to the U.S.
Migrants often gather in groups in southern Mexico to protect themselves from criminal organizations. However, they rarely get close to the border between Mexico and the United States.
When U.S. President-elect Donald Trump promised to impose new 25% tariffs on all products coming to the U.S. from Canada and Mexico, he stated that these tariffs would remain until drugs and people crossing the U.S. border were stopped.
Trump specifically mentioned a caravan of migrants heading to the United States from southern Mexico. This was the latest example of how Trump uses such group mobilizations to reinforce his statements about the border, although it is unusual for these groups to make it very far.
Groups of thousands of migrants usually gather in southern Mexico, near its border with Guatemala, which is more than 1,600 kilometers from the United States. The main reason is the power and safety that traveling in large groups provides.
While waiting in Tapachula, a city in southern Mexico, for humanitarian visas to travel through the country— a process that can often take months—migrants unite to prepare for their journey north.
Crossing Mexico can be a treacherous endeavor, especially for the poorest migrants, as they are vulnerable to kidnapping, extortion, or violence from either criminal groups or corrupt Mexican officials. Caravans help reduce the risk and avoid the high cost of hiring a smuggler to help them reach the U.S. border.
Many people, often from other parts of the Americas and increasingly from Asia and Africa, arrive in southern Mexico, sometimes after traveling hundreds of kilometers through jungles and multiple borders before reaching Mexico.
International
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