Pope begins nostalgic visit to Poland

June 7, 1974

PABLO NÁJERA, JOURNALISM AWARD. Pablo Nájera López, editor of El Debate, is the winner of the Sinaloa Journalism Award from the State Government. He obtained a prize of 25 thousand pesos and a diploma that will be presented to him by the governor, Mr. Alfredo Valdés Montoya, during a ceremony in Culiacán. Nájera López, with his varied works and great social content, has done constructive journalism, exemplary for the new values ​​of these issues, which is why he was selected to be awarded this award, prevailing among 16 colleagues.

PRISONER EXCHANGE BEGINS. Middle East. Israel and Syria received their respective prisoners of war with agitated demonstrations of joy in Tel Aviv and Damascus, while the Israeli military command announced that it had begun to withdraw its troops from the Golan Hills. In Tel Aviv, a crowd surrounded the airport and the police had to put up a security cordon to surround the International Red Cross plane carrying 56 prisoners, who had difficulty getting off the plane and making their way through the crowd, which was on the verge of toppling former Prime Minister Golda Meir.

A RAIN OF GIFTS FOR ERÉNDIRA PULIDO. In the next few days, she will leave the ranks of the singles the beautiful Miss Eréndira Pulido, who has chosen Arnoldo Salazar as her life partner. Her wedding is announced for July 6. For this reason, the members of her Friends Club organized a happy party to say goodbye to her, in which gifts and congratulations poured in from her friends. During the event, the wishes for Eréndira’s happiness were heard.

June 7, 1999

THE OFFICIAL IS ACCUSED OF PROMOTING MBULANCY. The Mayor’s Office was accused of promoting the problem of street hawking, since instead of removing the new stalls that appear on public roads, it encourages them, by not acting and applying the regulations for their removal, a merchant from the Municipal Market reported. She indicated that it is not fair that those who pay taxes and have a duly established business, have to endure the unfair and unfair competition of people who come and establish themselves on public roads without paying permission to work.

NOSTALGIC POPE BEGINS VISIT TO POLAND. Gdansk. John Paul II returned to his land as his favorite son and paid tribute to this Baltic port where the “cry of conscience” against communism arose, where a new Poland was born. Several tens of thousands of Poles lined streets and highways to see the 79-year-old Pope up close as he began his 13-day tour of the country. They carried Polish, Vatican and Solidarity flags, the union formed in the local shipyards that challenged the communist regime led by Lech Walesa. The pilgrimage occurs 20 years after John Paul II returned for the first time as Pope, on a visit that helped the rise of Solidarity, the first independent union of the former Soviet bloc. In his initial mass, before 700,000 people who packed a racecourse, John Paul II said that the sense of rapprochement that “opened the doors of freedom” must now be directed toward those who are in danger of being left behind. There is no freedom without Solidarity. The trip, which will include 20 cities, aims to remember important events in Polish history and give a sense of unity to a country undergoing the transition to a market economy. It also has a nostalgic aspect, stopping in Wadowice, where the Pontiff was born, and Krakow, where he was a priest, bishop and cardinal before being consecrated pope in 1978.

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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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