Members of a Mexican legislative commission approved a resolution demanding special financial support for San Felipe fishermen who have been forbidden from making business due to the two year fishing ban in the Sea of Cortez.
Congresswoman Nancy Sánchez, a Mexicali member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, introduced the resolution at the Fishing Commission of the Lower Chamber of Mexican Congress.
The resolution requests federal agencies to provide the economic compensation to fishermen.
The resolution was approved unanimously and was co-written by congressmen with the Green Party.
Sánchez acknowledged this financial support will not be sufficient but will lessen the difficult situation of the fishermen.
The Mexican lawmaker said the situation might worsen as environmental groups and public officials have been pressing to extend the fishing ban that was originally launched two years ago in order to protect species like totoaba and Vaquita marina.
The pressure against fishermen has turned more serious as registered fishermen are banned from making business while illegal fishermen have kept doing their activities in the area.
Fishermen have protested for the last days in order to seek the government lifting the ban.
“It is very important to strengthen inspection and law enforcement in the sea,” Sánchez said. “Authorities must look for other areas of opportunity that allow fishermen to get into other types of businesses like sports fishing.”
Woman found dead
The body of a dead woman was found Thursday night just next to a circus in southern Mexicali, according to media reports.
The woman was located at 7:15 p.m. in an empty lot close to Circo Rolex by the New River Boulevard.
The corpse was covered with a white blanket and dressed with a black bra and a blouse.
Authorities told reporters the victim had injuries and blood stains on the face.
The victim was between 35 and 40 years of age.
The body was transported to the state Coroner’s office.
Special Investigations Assistant Attorney General David Lozano said the body might belong to Yereletzy López Martínez, 15, who was reported as missing by family members.
The teenager was left at the circus Saturday by her mother but never went back home, Lozano said.
Authorities have interviewed a circus employee who the teenager made arrangements to meet.
The body had an injury in the head and marks of sexual attack.
American fugitive arrested
A San Diego woman was arrested Thursday in southern Mexicali for an arrest warrant related to drug crimes, said the state Secretary of Public Safety.
The agency’s International Liaison Rodolfo Luna said the suspect was identified as Lidia Cecilia Montaño Ochoa, 25.
The woman was arrested at Arena Del Rey Avenue at Fraccionamiento Quintas del Rey neighborhood in southern Mexicali.
The official said American authorities reported the alleged whereabouts of the suspect who might have crossed to Mexico recently.
After the arrest state police officers confirmed the arrest warrant.
Montaño Ochoa had allegedly committed drug trafficking crimes and was under violation of parole, the agency said.
The arrest warrant was released on September, Luna said.
Montaño Ochoa was taken to American authorities by Mexican agents with the National Immigration Institute.
Unemployment rate reaches low record
Baja California’s unemployment rate reached a new low record on February, according to figures released by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, or INEGI in Spanish.
According to the Mexican agency the state reported an unemployment rate of 2.7 percent during the second month of the year.
That number left Baja California in eighth place nationwide behind the states of Guerrero, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Yucatán and Zacatecas.
In February 2016 the state registered an unemployment rate of 3.1 percent, the tenth lowest among the 32 states.
