For sample, a button. While the City Council tries to convince the state governor, Rubén Rocha Moya, that the carnival party can be held, with caution (still at an orange traffic light), some groups participating in the demonstration prior to the election of the Children’s Queen and the King of La Alegría paraded without the use of face masks. That with everything and that they walked along the boardwalk in the midst of hundreds of people attracted by the music and the dance scenes. The healthy distance also shone for its absence among the attendees. It is the kind of relaxation that makes many citizens doubt how inconvenient these public celebrations are in the midst of one of the worst pandemics that humanity has experienced in the modern era.
Commitment in doubt. Hours before they meet for the epidemiological evaluation of Mazatlán, the municipal president Luis Guillermo Benítez Torres assured the media yesterday that whatever Governor Rubén Rocha Moya’s opinion is, he will support it. However, few people trust this statement. And it is that the controversial “Chemist” Benítez has shown a constant tendency to change his mind, and everyone knows the determination that he has shown for months to specify the carnival party as of February 24.
The referents. While it is being defined today whether there will be a carnival party in Mazatlan, official figures point to a gradual decrease in active cases. The Ministry of Health in the State reported yesterday 301 active cases of Covid-19 in Mazatlan. Of them, 161 were diagnosed in the last 24 hours. The number of suspected cases doubles that of patients. And it is that according to the report of the state agency, at least 677 people are under medical monitoring as they are considered suspected of carrying the virus.
Canceled party. In Elota, the mayor Ana Karen Val Medina has not waited to know the future behavior of the pandemic to cancel the La Cruz Carnival party. She considers that it is more important to protect the public health of the municipality than to continue with the preparations for a high-risk popular festival. The decision was announced yesterday afternoon while eyes remain focused on the state governor, Rubén Rocha Moya, who today could announce what is related to the Mazatlan Carnival.
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Escuinapa, again without water. Failures in the drinking water service have become a permanent problem for the administration of Blanca Estela García in Escuinapa. The mayor has faced difficulties to cover the overdue portfolio of the paramunicipal, which owes about 3 million pesos to the CFE and other millionaire payments to Issste and Infonavit. Yesterday, the municipality again ran out of drinking water. The pumping system works at 50 percent of its capacity, because one of the pumps is broken. It requires investing 130 thousand pesos immediately to solve the problem. So it could take several more days for the users of the service to see the supply of the vital liquid in the city recovered.
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