A state lawmaker asked Baja California officials to avoid providing support of any kind in case Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump seeks to visit the state.
Assemblyman Juan Molina demanded Governor Francisco Vega to not give under any circumstances special treatment, logistic support, honor, privilege or lodging to the businessman turned politician.
“Such person has disrespected our families, our parents, our children and has denigrated out entire country, and this is something we cannot tolerate,” he said. “We must remember what General Emiliano Zapata once said, ‘Those who want to become eagles, fly; those who want to be worms, may them drag, but do not yell while being stepped on.”
Molina said it was unfortunate President Enrique Peña met with Trump, honoring him as a dignitary, which has been criticized by Mexicans.
The lawmaker said the samples of discredit, disrespect, slander and threats from the American candidate towards Mexicans must not be accepted, tolerated and neither applauded, given his denigration and negative misconceptions against everything related to Mexico or Mexicans.
“We are deeply aggravated by the unfortunate and xenophobic statements that against us the Republican Party presidencial candidate has made,” he added. “Since now we must tell this individual in the name of every person proud of our country roots to keep his insults and threats and stop looking for possible cause of issues and disgrace that impact his nation in other places that are in his country.”
Molina expressed his respect for those good, hard-working Americans, but showed his rejection against those who show their intolerance.
The lawmaker said Mexicans must not admit or tolerate baseless allegations due to the contribution to the American growth after crossing the border legally or illegally with the only goal of seeking a job to improve their family’s quality of life.
“Looking for a job does not turns them into drug addicts or sexual abusers, but people who deserve respect,” he said.
Man arrested for killing his own mother
A 42-year-old man was arrested Friday afternoon as the alleged murderer of his own mother, said the Municipal Public Safety Department.
Authorities said at 1:30 p.m. police officers arrested Ramiro “Doe” for the assassination of Angelina Zavala Gómez, 73, at her residence located at C Avenue and Seventh Street at Los Algodones rural town.
The police said officers found the woman on the floor and with blood stains.
The suspect’s stepbrother told police agents the suspect constantly complained her mother had always preference for his stepbrother.
The suspect was found and arrested two blocks away from scene, authorities said.
Police agents found on the suspect’s military-like jacket a 3-inch knife with which he allegedly killed his mother.
Consumer prices decrease
The city of Mexicali observed a reduction of consumer prices during last month, according to a report released by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, known in Spanish as INEGI.
The Mexican agency said on its Consumer Price National Index that prices declined 1.38 percent in the city during August.
The decrease left the city in the number one spot among the urban areas with the lowest price variation below the national level.
Tijuana was second with a decrease of 0.42 percent and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua was third with 0.04 percent decrease.
Other three cities observed price reduction during the period — Huatabampo, Sonora; Oaxaca, Oaxaca and Tulancingo, Hidalgo.
On the other side, the city of Tapachula, in the state of Chiapas, reported the largest price increase with 0.65 percent, followed by Querétaro, Querétaro; Hermosillo, Sonora and Chetumal, Quintana Roo, all with a 0.61 percent increases.
Industrial activity remains growing
The National Institute of Statistics and Geography, or INEGI in Spanish, released its Monthly Report of Industrial Activity for the month of May, in which Baja California observed a growth of 5 percent.
The increase is the second among states in the U.S. border.
Mining grew 16.8 percent, Manufacturing 8 percent and energy production 4.7 percent, while construction decreased 1.2 percent.
Based on figures from the Mexican Institute of Social Security, Secretary of Economic Development Carlo Bonfante said these three sectors have reported 26.039 new jobs during the year, or 65 percent of total new jobs reported.
Bonfante said the May growth is the best of the year.
