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Mexico City, Feb 13 (EFE) .- Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday that he is confident that a former chief executive officer of the state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) who was detained in Malaga, south of Spain, will be extradited to Mexico. The ex CEO, Emilio Lozoya, is wanted in his homeland on corruption charges.IMAGES HAND OUT BY THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT.SOUNDBITES BY PRESIDENT ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADOR.TRANSLATION"I think so because the Attorney General's Office is doing its job very well. I remind you that it's an autonomous institution, here is no specific order, if we talk about an order then what we want is to uproot corruption in Mexico, and this is being done within a legal framework, it is an accusation made with evidence, that is why this detention in Spain took place, and the details are already known, the crimes for which he is accused, which has to do with the case of Odebretch and also with the purchase of fertilizer plants. That is what is being investigated and what led to his apprehension. There is a real state of law, it is no longer as it was before when we suffered from an unlawful state, now we can talk about a state of law, there is no protection for anyone, anyone who commits a crime is punished"
This lush expanse of Amazon rainforest, close to the Yasuni Nature Reserve, will be home to an oil drilling operation from Ecuador's state oil company Petroamazonas for the first time ever, which seeks to tap into the large Tiputini oil field. Ecuadorian Vice-President Jorge Glas was present to inaugurate the drilling of the oil reserve, the biggest in the Andean country. The Tiputini field is expected to produce 1.67 billion barrels per year. After years of debate, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa's government gave state-owned oil company Petroamazonas the green light to drill in the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) block, just outside of the Yasuni nature reserve. Environmental activists had called for a referendum on the decision but this was denied by the Correa government. The decision has been met with criticism from indigenous-rights and environmental groups.
San Cristobal de las Casas, May 19 (EFE).- At least 800 people, including students, teachers, members of social organizations and parents marched Wednesday in the cities of Tuxtla Gutiérrez and San Cristóbal de las Casas, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, to demand the release of students detained Tuesday by state police.At least 95 of the protesters were arrested Tuesday by Chiapas State Police agents during a protest demanding improvements in education from the government. (Camera: MITZI FUENTES).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE GATHER TO DEMAND RELEASED OF DETAINED STUDENTS IN SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS IN CHIAPAS STATE, MEXICO.
Former chief executive of Mexico's state oil company PEMEX, Emilio Lozoya, is transferred to prison by Spanish police for provisional detention after appearing in court in Marbella. Lozoya is accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes from scandal-tainted Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. IMAGES
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador reopens the debate over Spain's centuries of dominance in the New World, urging Spanish King Felipe VI and Pope Francis to apologize for the conquest and the rights violations committed in its aftermath SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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