Chávez supports 'El Chacal'

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April 17, 1974

MEDICAL EQUIPMENT APPROVED FOR UNIPRES. Health and Assistance approved the medical team, after a study and verifying the importance of the work, which will be used in the Comprehensive Social Prevention Unit, when it begins to operate in the middle of next month. The equipment in question consists of well-equipped offices, a treatment room, a psychiatric and dental room. The medical material has a cost of more than 150 thousand pesos. Health will pay the personnel who will need the project and whose inauguration is already being prepared.

A BIM IS INAUGURATED IN ENGLAND. London. The first international bank with majority participation of Mexican capital, International Mexican Bank, was inaugurated in this capital by Mr. Agustín F. Legorreta, president of its Administrative Council. The new international banking consortium will provide a wide range of financial services to Mexico and Latin America, including: financing for private companies and government entities, deposits, etc., which will be an important means of entering that area of ​​the world for many companies and obtaining new lines of productivity.

SHOWER FOR ELIA BALDERRAMA. The beautiful Elia Balderrama Bórquez continues to add to the celebrations, since her friends are determined to bid her a proper farewell to her single life. At the family residence, the ladies of the appreciable Balderrama-Bórquez dynasty dedicated a splendid shower to Elia who today will once again be the center of attention during the party that, with a special dedication from Adelita Rosas de García, will be held in her honor. . Elia will be the most beautiful bride of the current season.

April 17, 1999

LABASTIDA IS UNCOVERED. “Of course yes,” responded the Secretary of the Interior, Francisco Labastida Ochoa, regarding his aspiration to participate in the 2000 electoral contest for the Presidency of the Republic, clearing up doubts about his political aspirations. “You don't even have to ask me that question,” he said confirmingly, after an hour of speaking to reporters about the need for his party, the PRI, to define once and for all the rules of the internal process for the next candidate. arises from a universal vote.

Chávez supports “El Chacal.” Caracas. President Hugo Chávez expressed his human solidarity with Carlos “El Chacal”, the former terrorist of Venezuelan origin who is serving a life sentence in a French prison. Chávez said that a few months ago he sent the former terrorist, whose real name is Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, a letter in response to a letter that Carlos sent him. “I was in prison for two and a half years and I know that it is motivating when you receive a letter. This does not imply political solidarity. It is simply human solidarity. Every human being deserves respect, whatever the cause they are going through,” said the president. The correspondence that the president sent to the former terrorist generated great controversy, especially among Chávez's critics, who questioned his links with “El Chacal”, accused of murders and bomb attacks. Chávez ruled out the possibility that his government would request the extradition of Carlos, 49, who in December 1997 was sentenced by a French court for having killed two French secret agents and a confidant in 1975. The former terrorist is being investigated for alleged connections with several bomb attacks. Chávez is a retired colonel who led an attempted coup d'état in 1992 and was released in 1994 by a pardon from then-president Rafael Caldera.

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Sylva Mónica Ruffo Kelly, who completed her basic and high school studies in Los Mochis, stayed two years in El Centro, California, where she perfected the English language. She joined El Debate in September 1994 as a translator and later, in 2000, she became an assistant editor at El Debate de Los Mochis, tasks that led her to take charge of the entertainment page for more than 10 years and the newspaper archive. Upon the death of the City Chronicler, Don Evaristo Fregoso, in September 2003, who wrote the Los Mochis column 50 and 25 years ago, Ruffo Kelly took over the history column, which he later changed to Mi Ciudad 50 and 25 years, in which he narrates what happened in those years on the same day of publication of the newspaper EL DEBATE of Los Mochis.

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