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The National Civil Protection Coordination (CNPC) activated an alert for very heavy to intense rains in Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas and Tabasco. Accumulations of up to 150 millimeters are expected this Tuesday.

The agency asked for extreme precautions and to follow instructions from local authorities. He recommended not throwing garbage in streets to avoid obstructions in drainage and possible flooding.

Civil Protection Recommendations

The National Meteorological Service (SMN) predicts heavy rains in Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Nayarit, Colima, Jalisco, Michoacán and Guerrero, with accumulated amounts of 50 to 75 millimeters.

Showers with heavy occasional rains were also forecast in Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, State of Mexico, Mexico City, Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo.

Civil Protection recommended avoiding traveling through flooded areas and not crossing rivers, streams or fords. He asked visitors in coastal areas to stay away from beaches, jetties and breakwaters, and to suspend activities at sea while adverse conditions persist.

Support without candidacy

The national leadership of Morena, headed by Ariadna Montiel, supported the political activities of licensed senator Félix Salgado Macedonio in Guerrero. Although he did not register as a candidate for the party’s candidacy in the entity, Montiel considered that his territorial work strengthens the principles of the Fourth Transformation.

Montiel stated that Salgado Macedonio informed him of his intention to maintain his activism. The Morenista leader described this decision as positive and pointed out that the party’s militants and leaders must remain close to the citizens.

The licensed senator decided not to participate in the internal process to define state coordination, in compliance with the rules of the National Elections Commission. Therefore, he will not be considered an applicant.

Montiel announced that he will accompany him in some of the assemblies held in Guerrero. He considered that territorial participation is part of strengthening the movement.

Salgado Macedonio led a rally last Sunday in Chilpancingo and announced new meetings for this Saturday in Taxco and Iguala. The senator is the father of the governor of Guerrero, Evelyn Salgado, and maintains a political presence within Morena.

The arrest

Víctor Rodríguez Padilla, former head of Petróleos Mexicanos, was arrested on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 7, in the Narvarte neighborhood, Benito Juárez mayor’s office. Elements of the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City arrested him at 5:32 p.m. on 20 Monte Albán Street, in front of a cafe, according to the National Detention Registry.

The former official, 1.78 meters tall, with white skin and white hair, was wearing a white shirt and dress pants. He was placed at the disposal of the Common Public Prosecutor’s Office without the crime being specified in the record.

The complaint

Rodríguez Padilla is accused of family violence. His wife, nuclear engineer María Felicia Jiménez Lavie, reported the physical attacks she suffered and requested protection through a video broadcast on the networks. In her testimony to EL UNIVERSAL, she reported that the attack on March 15 — captured on recordings — was not an isolated event, but rather the highest point of an escalation that began in 2022 with verbal and physical abuse, including an incident where her husband stabbed her with a pen in her hand.

“First there were verbal insults, then a slap, pushing, but like this one, which was very brutal, I even had a lot of pain when walking for several days,” said the complainant.

On June 29, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo called for the full weight of the law to be applied to complaints of family violence. He pointed out that, since the events occurred in Morelos, the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Morelos will investigate the case and determine the criminal sanction. “No one will be protected from an act like this,” said the president.