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As Matamoros Mayor Mario Alberto Lopez Hernandez continues his petition to Tamaulipas officials for the restriction of travel into Tamaulipas by Rio Grande Valley residents, Matamoros is one of the leading cities with COVID-19 positive cases and deaths.
Tha mayor made his plea during a teleconference this week with Tamaulipas Secretary of Health Gloria Molina Gamboa. He was among 43 other mayors from the state who participated in the teleconference on the virus.
As we have pointed out before, Lopez is between a rock and a hard place since he is one of the main travelers between both sides of the river.
Now that López has made it clear he doesn't want any of the potentially COVID-19-infected Brownsville amigos on his side of the Rio, how is he going to take care of his 25 pure-blood horses valued at more than $800,000 on his estate here?
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For that matter, who is going to watch over his $1.5 million home and property outside San Benito?
Isn't he afraid that his help at the estate located at 26742 Guelker Road might come into contact with the contagion-laden Americanos on this side of the Rio?
And despite the prohibition by immigration law that someone with a visitor's visa cannot own real estate on the U.S. side of the border, he placed the properties under a corporation (Grupo 5M) and under the name of his wife Marsella Huerta Sosa.
Just as we should take his protest that he wants nothing of his American amigos with a grain of salt, so, too we must take note of some of the shortcomings in his administration, perhaps with a snort of coke.
Last Friday, Rodrigo Iván Sánchez Cantú, the private secretary of the Secretary of Social Development of Matamoros, José Alberto Granados Favila., was arrested in Matamoros by Mexican Navy forces conducting surveillance. (That's Sanchez with his boss at right.)
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As Matamoros Mayor Mario Alberto Lopez Hernandez continues his petition to Tamaulipas officials for the restriction of travel into Tamaulipas by Rio Grande Valley residents, Matamoros is one of the leading cities with COVID-19 positive cases and deaths.Tha mayor made his plea during a teleconference this week with Tamaulipas Secretary of Health Gloria Molina Gamboa. He was among 43 other mayors from the state who participated in the teleconference on the virus.
As we have pointed out before, Lopez is between a rock and a hard place since he is one of the main travelers between both sides of the river.
Now that López has made it clear he doesn't want any of the potentially COVID-19-infected Brownsville amigos on his side of the Rio, how is he going to take care of his 25 pure-blood horses valued at more than $800,000 on his estate here?
For that matter, who is going to watch over his $1.5 million home and property outside San Benito?
Isn't he afraid that his help at the estate located at 26742 Guelker Road might come into contact with the contagion-laden Americanos on this side of the Rio?
And despite the prohibition by immigration law that someone with a visitor's visa cannot own real estate on the U.S. side of the border, he placed the properties under a corporation (Grupo 5M) and under the name of his wife Marsella Huerta Sosa.
Just as we should take his protest that he wants nothing of his American amigos with a grain of salt, so, too we must take note of some of the shortcomings in his administration, perhaps with a snort of coke.
Last Friday, Rodrigo Iván Sánchez Cantú, the private secretary of the Secretary of Social Development of Matamoros, José Alberto Granados Favila., was arrested in Matamoros by Mexican Navy forces conducting surveillance. (That's Sanchez with his boss at right.)
Sanchez, who came under the political aegis of the Morena political party when it took over Matamoros, was arrested with eight kilos of cocaine, 60 kilos of marijuana, and was carrying a .45-caliber pistol and a mobile radio, sources from Mexico's Attorney General's Office (FGR) revealed Sunday.
(They did not report finding ny money on him, naturally.)
The state delegation of the FGR, based in Reynosa, placed Sanchez into custody and charged him with possession of the narcotics, a vehicle, and the pistol. He was charged of crimes against health and carrying a eapon for the exclusive use of the army.
He was detained in a Matamoros neighborhood Friday afternoon, when elements of the Secretary of the Navy carried out surveillance patrols.
Mayor Lopez has not made a comment on Sanchez's arrest. FGR sources also say that other municipal officials are also under suspicion of association with drug trafficking.
(They did not report finding ny money on him, naturally.)
The state delegation of the FGR, based in Reynosa, placed Sanchez into custody and charged him with possession of the narcotics, a vehicle, and the pistol. He was charged of crimes against health and carrying a eapon for the exclusive use of the army.
He was detained in a Matamoros neighborhood Friday afternoon, when elements of the Secretary of the Navy carried out surveillance patrols.
Mayor Lopez has not made a comment on Sanchez's arrest. FGR sources also say that other municipal officials are also under suspicion of association with drug trafficking.