Earthquake in Puebla

June 16, 1974

THEY DENOUNCE POLITICAL “MADRUGUETE”. The fight to achieve the nomination as pre-candidates for the municipal presidency of Ahome was unleashed with greater intensity, with a rumor campaign “uncovering” the lawyer Óscar Monzón Molina, which has gone from rumor to direct activity when groups of followers of the professional toured the ejidal sector in proselytizing work. Relatives of the lawyer have been leading the advances in a classic “political early rise”, gaining the lead over other candidates who had more possibilities than Monzón.

NORDVIETNAMESE TROOPS MACHINE-GUN CIVILIANS. Saigon. North Vietnamese troops fired on a group of civilians returning to their homes in Bencal, 40 kilometers north of Saigon, killing children. Communists fired seven 105-millimeter artillery shells at a police station, when about five thousand inhabitants returned to the town. Four people were injured and many of those returning gathered their things and fled. When government troops recaptured the village and the Andien defensive outpost, authorities asked the newcomers to return to their town.

WELCOME TO INDALECIO VEGA. After having spent a year studying at a school in Ione, California, the young Indalecio Vega Zavala, heir of Don Indalecio Vega and his wife María Zavala de Vega, arrived in our midst, who offered him a cordial welcome. Many friends and relatives were present at the meeting. During his stay in the United States, Indalecio was a guest of the Singers family. Mrs. de Vega was a kind host, attending to the attendees.

June 16, 1999

34 POLICE OFFICERS FIRED. The secretary of the City Council, Beethoven Pacheco, confirmed that since June 4, the 34 agents who were addicted to the consumption of drugs were discharged from the Municipal Police, as a result of the anti-doping test carried out on preventive agents and officials of the commune. The interviewee dismissed the versions that some of these police officers had been relocated to other areas of the municipal public administration. That would be a very serious error that would affect the Security authorities and the City Council.

EARTHQUAKE IN PUEBLA. Puebla. “Rescue my son, take my son out,” asked a desperate woman who survived the collapse of a house located in the center of Puebla, after the strong earthquake with a power of 7.0 on the Richter scale was recorded, which left serious damage. in more than 100 properties in this capital, with the city of Tehuacán as its epicenter. The estimated toll is 20 dead and 188 injured. Between the panic, the crying and the desolation, a persistent rain came to hinder the rescue activities of motoconformadores, excavados, and cargo trucks that invaded the center of this capital, with the purpose of supporting the rescue efforts of people trapped between concrete rubble. Scenes of uncertainty and heartbreak multiplied as the enormous amount of damage suffered by colonial buildings that house government offices, businesses and private homes was discovered and made known. Red Cross rescuers equipped with dogs carried out verification work in affected buildings. A neighbor commented on the lack of coordination between the emergency bodies, which were insufficient, because no one could order the help of the population and Civil Protection professionals. In hospitals, patients were evacuated to public roads, where doctors staged images of desperation to care for and keep alive the most seriously ill people. The lack of control among the civilian population was accentuated due to the closure of businesses, where during the last hours panic buying was recorded, due to the possibility of food shortages.

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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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