NATO bombs Serbs

May 12, 1974

SAG WILL FORCE TO SOW CANE. Everything indicates that the authorization given by Dr. Óscar Brauer, Secretary of Agriculture, to free private areas located within the mill’s supply zone from sugarcane planting, will be revoked at any moment. Such information emerged in sugarcane sources, indicating that the SAG Sugar Cane director was promoting a reconsideration of the measure dictated by Brauer, which caused the process for the soybean planting permit to be suspended.

PERONIST MILITANT KILLED. Argentina. A Peronist Youth militant was shot to death during a shootout between rival groups while arrests and raids were taking place in sectors of the JP, after the two bosses most hated by the Peronist left assumed control of the Federal Police. Hundreds of heavily armed police officers stormed JP supporters’ premises and private homes in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. The guerrilla Carlos Della was arrested, formally accused of the kidnapping of the Paraguayan consul, Waldemar Sánchez, released shortly after.

MOTHERS DAY FESTIVAL. The Municipal Committee of the IPI, chaired by Mrs. Otilia Ibarra de Villarreal and the Department of Social Action, offered emotional tribute to the mothers of the municipality of Ahome, during an event that was held at the Teatro del Seguro Social. Mrs. Villarreal, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Librada Zepeda de Ibarra, presented fifty prizes to the ladies in attendance. The main prize of a stove went to Mrs. Ignacia Payán de Solano.

May 12, 1999

CRIMINAL CONFLICTS. The struggle faced by the IRSS of Culiacán, where the prisoners accuse the prison management of repression and favoritism, which in turn announces that it will carry out a total cleanup of the corrupt guards, is a wake-up call for all centers. penitentiaries of the entity in which explosive situations are experienced. At the moment there is not much overcrowding of prisoners in the Ceresos of Sinaloa, but the security guarantees are almost zero, as has already been demonstrated with massive escapes, such as that of El Fuerte.

NATO BOMBS SERBIANS. Belgrade. NATO planes destroyed highway bridges, railways and other targets throughout Serbia, casting doubt on the government’s announcement that it partially withdrew its troops from Kosovo. President Bill Clinton and NATO said the airstrikes will continue until Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic agrees to all the conditions they demand for peace in Kosovo, including a complete withdrawal of Serbian forces that sent hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing. Kosovars. NATO officials said there is no evidence of the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops. Western alliance shells landed on targets around Belgrade, including in the Pancevo industrial area and a building in Baric. An elderly couple and a four-year-old girl were killed and four other people were injured by a hail of bombs. In Brussels, NATO sources said that better weather conditions in Yugoslavia allowed the alliance’s planes to intensify their strikes, carrying out 623 missions in the last 24 hours. They also attacked tanks, armored vehicles, mortar positions and concentration areas. Other targets were landing strips, barracks, radio repeater stations and a police station. They have destroyed an entire brigade’s worth of weapons and equipment. The supreme command of the Yugoslav army said it had ordered the partial withdrawal of troops from Kosovo, but so far no evidence has been seen.

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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 to the Editorial Team of 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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