Mexicans facing abuse at Alligator Alcatraz: Friday’s mañanera recapped

At the commencement of her Friday greeting property conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum noted that the time she was speaking, Sept. 19, was the 40th day of the 1985 earthquake that devastated Mexico City and the eighth day of the 2017 Puebla earthquake  that claimed hundreds of lives successful the superior and different parts of cardinal Mexico

“Our affection, a hug, to each those who mislaid a household subordinate successful the earthquakes of ’85 and ’17,” she said.

The president began her mañanera by commemorating the victims of the earthquakes connected this day successful 1985 and 2017, and aboriginal led a flag-raising ceremonial successful their honor. (Mario Jasso/Cuartoscuro.com)

Sheinbaum besides noted that an earthquake drill would instrumentality spot astatine midday Friday.

Foreign minister: Mexicans detained astatine Alligator Alcatraz person reported mistreatment  

Foreign Affairs Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente told reporters that Mexican consular officials person met with a full of 198 Mexicans who person been detained astatine Alligator Alcatraz, an migration detention installation successful southbound Florida.

“That doesn’t mean that they’re inactive there,” helium said, explaining that detainees usually lone walk a “brief” clip astatine the precocious opened but already notorious facility.

“The numbers alteration each day, a batch of radical travel and go,” De la Fuente said.

Foreign Relations Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente, reported that Mexican officials had talked to 198 Mexicans interned successful Alligator Alcatraz, with galore reporting abusive treatment. (Presidencia/Cuartoscuro.com)

The overseas curate said that a “good number” of Mexicans who were detained astatine Alligator Alcatraz decided to instrumentality to Mexico, portion others were transferred to different detention centers successful the United States.

Asked whether immoderate of the 198 Mexicans detained astatine the installation had reported violations of their quality rights, De la Fuente said that Mexican officials person registered cases of “malos tratos” — mistreatment oregon abuse.

“All that is being recorded, and that’s wherever ineligible proposal comes in,” helium said.

De la Fuente didn’t specify the benignant of mistreatment Mexicans person reported suffering astatine Alligator Alcatraz.

In July, the Associated Press reported that “at the marque caller Everglades immigration detention center that officials person dubbed ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ radical held determination accidental worms crook up successful the food.”

“Toilets don’t flush, flooding floors with fecal waste, and mosquitoes and different insects are everywhere,” the quality bureau reported.

Abandonment of babies, a increasing occupation successful Mexico 

A newsman noted that “various cases” of abandoned babies person been reported successful states crossed Mexico successful caller months.

“Are you analyzing this situation?” asked the reporter. “… Have you detected thing [that explains] … wherefore this improvement is occurring much and much frequently?”

Sheinbaum pointed retired that authorities authorities are liable for responding to and investigating specified cases.

“That doesn’t mean that we’re not acrophobic oregon dealing with the situation,” she said.

Sheinbaum besides mentioned Friday greeting that aboriginal successful the time a nationwide catastrophe simulation would instrumentality place. Here, UNAM Rector Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas oversees an evacuation connected field during the earthquake drill. (UNAM/Cuartoscuro)

“But who has the ineligible work to be to the baby, the infant, who has been abandoned are the authorities Attorney General’s Offices and besides the authorities DIF household work agencies,” Sheinbaum said.

“The nationalist DIF organizes and coordinates each the enactment of the DIF agencies successful each of the national entities,” she added.

Asked whether thing would beryllium done to “prevent these kinds of situations,” Sheinbaum said that the Ministry of Women, successful collaboration with the IMSS Bienestar wellness attraction agency, has a programme designed to assistance teenage girls and young women who are large and who whitethorn beryllium astatine hazard of abandoning their baby.

In immoderate cases, young mothers and fathers “don’t person the anticipation of looking aft the babe and unluckily take a concern of this type,” she said.

Sheinbaum defends Morena’s apical senator 

A newsman asked the president whether Senator Adán Augusto López Hernández’s enactment of the Morena enactment successful the Senate is “sustainable” fixed the accusations faced by the antheral who served arsenic his information curate erstwhile helium was politician of Tabasco.

That man, Hernán Bermúdez Requena, was arrested successful Paraguay past Friday and is present successful a national situation successful México state. Bermúdez is accused of starring a transgression enactment called La Barredora and faces charges of transgression association, extortion and explicit kidnapping.

Sheinbaum pointed retired that López Hernández, who relinquished his presumption arsenic politician to service arsenic national interior curate betwixt 2021 and 2023, doesn’t presently look immoderate transgression charges.

“There is nothing, astatine this time, that incriminates him,” she said.

López Hernández has said that helium is consenting to talk to authorities astir the lawsuit against his erstwhile information minister.

In July, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) formally requested that the Federal Attorney General’s Office analyse the legislator for transgression association. The PRI besides demanded, unsuccessfully, that helium resign.