Editor’s Comments
Don’t miss our feature article this week on journalism! The danger in journalism today is that big corporations are buying big media outlets that easily turn news trends into propaganda. Fortunately, it seems that independent electronic communication channels have become the counterculture in search of the truth behind every story. They seem a sort of guerrilla campaign against the big media monsters. Atención San Miguel congratulates its team of collaborators for the struggle it has sustained this last year to improve its content and communication with the community. Congratulations to all the journalists of San Miguel and the world!
Approval is granted for the Army to manage the National Guard
Last week, the Mexican Chamber of Deputies (the lower legislative house) gave approval for the Army to control and manage the National Guard. The opposition warns that it will go to the Supreme Court. The initiative reached the plenary of San Lazaro on Friday night after the Morena party and its majority managed to have all the formalities dispensed; it will now pass to the Senate for its analysis, discussion, and final vote.
Meanwhile, in the Senate, Morena loses its leadership. Alejandro Armenta won the Senate presidency; everything indicates that the presidential initiatives, including the one related to the National Guard, won’t have an easy time in the upper legislative house.
Energy battle between Russia and the European Union
Now that the European winter is in sight, the energy battle between Russia and the European Union over the conflict in Ukraine reached its peak last week. Russia’s Gazprom announced the indefinite shutdown of the Nord Stream pipeline after claiming that it has detected oil leaks in the only compressor unit currently active, and its repair depends on a Canadian company that appears to have suspended its services as part of the sanctions imposed on Russia. The West argues that these are purely pretexts for suspending European gas supplies. Analysts argue that this is a response by the Russian government to the G7’s intentions to control the price of oil.
International Journalists’ Day
International Journalists’ Day was established by the First National Congress of Journalists held in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1938, to be commemorated every September 8. At first, it was established in honor of the first regional print media with a pro-independence, patriotic character. But a few years later, after the end of World War II, the international journalistic guild chose to pay homage to the Czech journalist Julius Fucik, who was executed by the Nazis on September 8, 1943. His “Report at the foot of the gallows” was taken page by page from prison and published in 1945. The writing was widely distributed internationally and has been translated into more than 80 languages (cndh.org.mx).
San Miguel de Allende and Aspen
Mayor Mauricio Trejo Pureco has met with Ronald Wayne, his counterpart from Aspen, Colorado, to define the partnership that will lead them to cultural, tourist, and economic exchange. The approach seeks to consolidate work to help the expression of local unions in each tourist destination, based on the balance of their potential and talent. According to the municipal government, it seeks to prioritize strengthening the artistic guild. The objective is that artists of the two cities have coexistence and direct exposure with the inhabitants of both cities, such that the artists of San Miguel can offer their work in Aspen and vice versa.
The date for the First Government Report is approaching
During September and October, Mayor Mauricio Trejo will render his First Government Report, in which he’ll present the results of this first year of work and also plans he has for 2023. Trejo’s campaign commitments included tending to the water supply in different rural communities and popular areas of the urban area, public safety, providing internet to communities, environmental care, a new tourism promotion project, economic recovery, stopping the overflow of housing developments, protection of women, and the return of culture and traditions.
