According to tapes, Nixon is not involved

May 19, 1974

INCREASED MILITARY SURVEILLANCE IN THE REGION. Military surveillance in the northern region of Sinaloa will be increased starting this week, with a view to having sufficient personnel to intervene in emergency cases during the cotton picking season. Provisions have already been issued for the IX Military Zone to increase the military units stationed in Los Mochis, El Fuerte and Choix. Currently, these parties have a platoon of elements, personnel that will be increased to one section, that is, the number of troops will be tripled.

ACCORDING TO TAPES, NIXON IS NOT INVOLVED. Washington. The content of the four tapes heard so far, a total of 19, by the House Legal Commission, reveals that President Richard Nixon was aware that his White House aides had been involved in illegal activities, but They do not attest that he himself had been compromised. Two of the tapes referring to conversations between Nixon and his legal advisor, John Dean, show that Nixon was colluding with respect to the activities carried out by the staff of the State House and the members of his re-election committee. The most compromising statement so far appears in a recording of the Nixon-Dean dialogue from September 15, 1972, three months after the illegal entry of the Democratic Party headquarters in Watergate. In that tape, according to a transcript obtained by the Washington Post, Nixon declared his intention to use the Federal Communications Commission, the Internal Revenue Service (Treasury), the FBI and the Department of Justice, as means to punish his enemies. politicians, particularly the news media. A transcript of the tape provided by the White House is a prolonged attack by Nixon against the Washington Post for the way he reported on the Watergate affair. This prompted the commission to launch an investigation to see if he actually carried out his threat.

COMMUNION OF ALITA CASTILLO. In a beautiful religious ceremony celebrated by the priest Antonio Lomelí and in which 25 girls from Montferrant School participated, Alma Castillo López celebrated her first communion in the parish of the Sacred Heart. Almita is the daughter of Dr. Alfredo Castillo and Adela López de Castillo, with Mrs. María Elena Rendón de Raygoza serving as godmother. Later, at the Castillo family residence, a splendid party was offered in honor of the new communicant.

May 19, 1999

THEY THUNDER AT MOLE AGAINST THE MAYOR. Productive sectors of Topolobampo thundered against Mayor Esteban Valenzuela and the council, because they improperly authorized permission for the trustee to be absent from his responsibility, when what was conducive was resignation or dismissal. In addition, they challenged the imposition of the interim trustee, Noé Lozoya, because he does not meet the minimum requirements to hold the position. The population stated that if by June 8, the trustee Jesús Cital does not return to office, they will take the receivership to demand his relocation.

FLO WILL SEEK THE CANDIDACY. Mexico City The Secretary of the Interior, Francisco Labastida Ochoa, announced that he will seek the presidential candidacy of the PRI and that he will present his resignation from his position when President Zedillo returns from his visit to the United States. “I have made the most important decision of my life,” Labastida said. The former governor of Sinaloa said that he is seeking the Presidency of the Republic because “I want to lead the efforts of the vast majority of Mexicans to take the country into the new millennium, with a better standard of living,” he declared.

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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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