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Civil unrest around the water cooperation agreement between the Chihuahua Central Water and Sanitation Board (JCAS) and the Israeli Mashav Agency has escalated to the national level. The mobilization, promoted on TikTok by the user @amigamagica, will take place on Saturday, August 1 at 9:30 a.m. in various cities across the country.

Meeting points include from the Estela de Luz towards the Zócalo in Mexico City, to concentrations in Tabasco, Pachuca, Ciudad Juárez and Jalisco. The agreement, signed in 2023 under the government of María Eugenia Campos Galván, is the center of the debate.

The legal vacuum of the agreement

According to Luis Andrés Rivera Levario, spokesperson for Save the Hills of Chihuahua, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) confirmed that there are no legal instruments in force between Israel and Chihuahua. This, according to activists, violates the Law on the Conclusion of Treaties, which requires any inter-institutional agreement to be registered with the Foreign Ministry.

“It was left in a situation in limbo where it is impossible to request accounts, since it does not legally exist,” said Rivera Levario in an interview with IMER.

The civil organization maintains that the agreement operates in total opacity as it lacks registration with the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (Amexcid).

Technical concern

Beyond the legal, protesters criticize the proposed technological model. Reverse osmosis, they explain, is not viable for Chihuahua due to the absence of the sea. They point out that aquifer wells are already becoming salinized due to poor management, and the technology would only aggravate soil salinization.

“They are coming to offer us a high-risk solution,” added the spokesperson.

The real solution, they insist, is to protect water recharge areas and carry out agricultural and industrial reconversion. The community demands that the authorities terminate the agreement, which they consider non-existent.

The Attorney General’s Office of the State of Sinaloa is investigating the death of a four-year-old minor, identified as Aldo Emilio N., who was reported not to be located for several hours in the tourist area of ​​Las Glorias beach, in the municipality of Guasave. The boy had gone to the scene accompanied by his parents.

Disappearance and search on the beach

According to the family story, the group came to spend the day and ate at the “Las Palomas” restaurant. After finishing the food, the parents noticed that the minor was no longer there. They immediately called emergencies and elements of the municipal police, civil protection and visitors joined an intense search throughout the beach and nearby businesses.

The authorities reviewed restaurants and businesses in the area, as well as versions on social networks about an unaccompanied minor, but none of them matched.

Finding in a septic tank

Almost four hours later, during a new inspection at the restaurant where the family ate, the child’s remains were found in a septic tank in the establishment. Experts from the Prosecutor’s Office collected evidence and testimonies to determine the causes of death.

The Prosecutor’s Office has not issued a preliminary ruling. The case remains under investigation.

Inés Gómez Mont’s brother-in-law is linked to the process

The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) reported that a federal judge linked Alejandro Mario Álvarez Puga, brother-in-law of the driver Inés Gómez Mont, to the trial. He is accused of possible participation in the crime of tax fraud.

The judge imposed preventive detention as a precautionary measure and granted four months for the complementary investigation.

Details of the case

Álvarez Puga was arrested in Benito Juárez, Quintana Roo, by elements of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) of the FGR, in coordination with the Secretary of the Navy.

During the hearing, the Federal Public Ministry of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Competition Control (FECOC) presented evidence that led to the judicial decision.

The crime is related to the omission of the payment of Income Tax corresponding to the 2016 fiscal year, which would have caused damage to the federal treasury.

No relation to extradition case

The authorities clarified that this process is not linked to the extradition procedures that Víctor Manuel Álvarez Puga and Inés Gómez Mont are facing in the United States. Both are wanted by Mexico for alleged organized crime and operations with resources of illicit origin.

Víctor Manuel Álvarez Puga was detained for immigration purposes in September 2025. His next hearing is scheduled for November 2026.

The FGR continues working on the formal extradition request, which must meet the requirements requested by the US authority. Although Víctor Manuel remains subject to the immigration process, the United States granted him freedom on bail and with a geolocation device.

As for Inés Gómez Mont, the request for provisional arrest for extradition purposes was also submitted against her.