Indictment against the White House

June 9, 1974

PRI APPLIES TO CALDERÓN. The PRI will nominate Senator Alfonso G. Calderón, candidate for the governorship of Sinaloa, during the State convention that will take place in Culiacán and will be chaired by Mr. Jesús Reyes Heroles, president of the political organization. The ceremony will bring together 300 delegates from across the entity, 100 from each sector, in addition to countless people who have been expressly invited to the political event. Once the convention is over, Calderón will go to Mexico and then start his campaign on the 13th of the current month in Picachos, Choix.

ACCUSATION AGAINST THE WHITE HOUSE. Washington. A report prepared by the technicians of the Senate commission on Watergate has launched the accusation that the White House tried to politicize the executive branch in favor of the re-election of President Nixon in 1972, producing in some cases, criminal violations of the laws. . The so-called “sympathy programs,” aimed at minorities, involved diverting millions of dollars in federal grants and contracts to applicants who supported Nixon and delaying or canceling the contracts of people who supported the Democrats. The program was aimed especially at Spanish-speaking groups and blacks, the group said in a 150-page report that was distributed to the commission’s senators. The main “architect” of the program was Frederick Malek, then a White House employee and now deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. The White House liaison officer for special interest groups was kept informed, as well as John Erlichman, second in command at the White House at the time, and other officials of similar standing who were kept abreast of the development. “sympathy concept”, which included the diversion of millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money, to put them at the service of the president’s re-election.

HANDSOME MALE FOR THE RED FAMANÍA. A little boy was transported by the bird of sweet surprises from the City of Light, to be delivered to Messrs. Pepe Rojo and Helen Famanía de Rojo, who with great joy received the heir they were impatiently waiting for. The baby, in perfect health, is the ideal playmate for his older sister, the pretty Mariele, who continues to be the queen of the home. The Rojo Famanía spouses received many congratulations for the happy event.

June 9, 1999

DEATH SQUADS. With greater insistence, the presidents of the Human Rights commissions, Óscar Loza Ochoa and Jaime Cinco Soto, declare about the possibility that death squads are those who are carrying out the executions of people who mourn homes and terrorized Sinaloa society. PRD and PAN legislators demand the appearance in Congress of the Attorney General, Gilberto Higuera Bernal, because the inability of state authorities to stop the wave of violence is evident.

PEACE PLAN FOR KOSOVO. Bonn. The foreign ministers of the Seven Most Industrialized Countries in the World and Russia (G-8) reached an agreement on the draft peace resolution for Kosovo that they will present to the UN security council. The agreement defines the chronology that must follow the withdrawal of Serbian troops from Kosovo and the entry of the international peacekeeping force, as well as the command structure of that military force. They agreed to end NATO bombing of the Republic of Yugoslavia.

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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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