by the El Reportero’s wire services
The surrounding streets to the Presidential Palace in Honduras were blocked on June 22 by security forces due to fear of protests, which by press time, seemed that more and bigger protests were coming.
Since the morning, metal barricades and National Inter-agency Security Force agents closed the passage to the Presidential Palace under the pretext of safeguarding the security in the area.
In recent weeks, after uncovering the case of corruption in the Honduran Institute for Social Security (IHSS), social sectors spoke out to demand justice for those involved and the resignation of President Juan Orlando Hernández.
As was learned, the ruling National Party is one of those involved in the diversion of funds from the IHSS.
The citizen movement leading the protests, the Indignant Opposition, announced that they would organize a strong demonstration during this Monday.
Mexico, 108 people in jail for the Ayotzinapa case
Mexico, – Nine months after the enforced disappearance of the Ayotzinapa 43 trainers, the Office of the Attorney-General of the Republic confirmed there are 108 people in prison during this period.
There are 74 police officers from Iguala and Cocula, who allegedly were involved in the illegal arrest of the students and their delivery to the criminal cartel Guerreros unidos.
Experts from the Organized Crime Unit of the Attorney’s General Office revealed that in previous investigations there is no record that any of those students ever belonged to the Army.
Most of the people arrested are in Federal Centres for Social Rehabilitation in Tamaulipas and Nayarit, charged with organized crime and aggravated deprivation of liberty, a crime that has a maximum penalty of 140 years’ imprisonment.
Also, after months, the arrest warrant against José Luis Abarca, ex-Mayor of Iguala, Guerrero and his wife María de los Ángeles Pineda was obtained in Tamaulipas. He is allegedly guilty of the disappearance of the students.
On Nov. 4, 2014 Abarca and his wife were arrested in Iztapalapa and Pineda was transferred to Nayarit. The disappearance of the students took place on September 26 and 27 last year in Iguala.
Mexican ex-candidates denounce electoral irregularities
Former candidates to elections of June 7 in Mexico denounced electoral fraud and held the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) responsible.
Eduardo Ceja Gil win, who had won the election as mayor of the city of Santiago Tangamandapio, Michoacán by 30 plus votes, was reversed by almost the same numbers of votes he had won.
Ceja Gil, however filed a lawsuit charging the incumbent PRI candidate with fraud.
In other parts of the country, an unprecedented move, ex-candidates to municipal presidents and deputies from various political parties led a caravan of hundreds of people, who carried out a political rally in Queretaro and arrived in Mexico City to denounce before the Attorney’s Office unlawful acts during the electoral campaign.
The protest involves representatives of the Democratic Revolution party (PRD), National Action (PAN), Humanist and of Labor, plus the Citizens’ Movement.
