Author of ‘The Escape of the Century’ sues ‘Sucesos’

September 19, 1974

SINALOA, MEXICO’S FIRST EXPORTERA group of 40 businessmen from Sinaloa, headed by Governor Alfredo Valdés Montoya, visited the exhibition “In Mexico, the Best Investment” in Mexico City. On the day dedicated to Sinaloa, more than five thousand articles were exhibited, of which more than 400 are susceptible to being manufactured here, avoiding a large flight of foreign currency. Mr. Valdés Montoya stated that Sinaloa occupies first place in the country in the area of ​​exports, mainly in the area of ​​seeds for crops.

THE AUTHOR OF THE ESCAPE OF THE CENTURY SUES “SUCESOS”. Caracas. Carlos Contreras Castro, the Venezuelan pilot who made a spectacular escape from a Mexican prison in August 1971 and who wrote “The Escape of the Century,” which narrates his life in Aztec prisons, filed a lawsuit, through the Mexican publishing house “Los Robles,” for 400 thousand dollars against the magazine “Sucesos” of Mexico for having published chapters of his work without authorization. According to a spokesman for the author, whose text has been published in four editions, “Sucesos” published the first chapter of the book without having informed the publishing house Los Robles, which has the rights to the work in Mexico, of his intentions. Contreras, an aviation captain who for the first time in the history of escapes used a helicopter to help Joel Kaplan escape from the Santa Martha Acatitla prison, is wanted by the Mexican authorities. A representative of the Robles publishing house contacted the writer to denounce the magazine, so Contreras mobilized his lawyers, authorizing the Aztec publishing house to proceed legally against the weekly. Contreras currently resides in Caracas, and travels regularly to Malaga, Spain, where the American actor Charles Bronson and his wife Jill Ireland are filming “La Fuga del Siglo,” which will be released in December, the spokesman added.

Petition by Rocio GarciaThe beautiful Miss Rocío García and Mr. Ernesto Guevara were formally engaged to be married. The proposal for Rocío’s hand was made by Mr. Juan de Dios Guevara and his wife Blanquita de Guevara, in front of the bride’s parents, Francisco García and Trinidad de García, and by mutual agreement the month of January 1975 was set for the wedding. The engagement of the loving couple gave rise to a pleasant gathering attended by family and close friends.

September 19, 1999

URGENT SOLUTION NEEDEDThe position of the agricultural producers stationed at the toll booths for days is clear: they will not give in until they have a concrete and forceful response to their demands. They are not deterred by statements such as those of Congressman Joaquín Montaño or the leader of the League of Agrarian Communities, Pablo Moreno, to the effect that what they are doing is illegal. The blockades will continue until the government of Sinaloa commits in writing to respond with a specific date to the payment of the harvests and the price premium for beans.

RUSSIA ATTACKS CHECHNYA. Makhachkala. Russian forces launched air and artillery strikes on guerrilla bases in the breakaway republic of Chechnya in southern Russia. The raids were aimed at preventing a possible attack by Islamic militants from Chechnya on the neighbouring republic of Dagestan. Russian aircraft will have completed about 100 sorties by tonight. Since the beginning of August, Islamic militants have twice crossed the Chechen border and seized villages in Dagestan, the Tass news agency reported.

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Sylva Monica Ruffo Kelly, who completed her elementary and high school studies in Los Mochis, spent two years in El Centro, California, where she perfected her English. She joined El Debate in September 1994 as a translator and then, in 2000, 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’s newspaper archives. Upon the death of the City Chronicler, Don Evaristo Fregoso, in September 2003, who wrote the column Los Mochis 50 and 25 years ago, Ruffo Kelly took charge of the history column, which she later changed to My City 50 and 25 years ago, in which she narrates what happened in those years on the same day of publication of the newspaper EL DEBATE de Los Mochis.

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