Sheinbaum announces new report on Ayotzinapa after 12th anniversary of mass kidnapping: Monday’s mañanera recapped

• 🌀 Hurricane Polo nears Baja California Sur: Civil Protection chief Laura Velázquez said Polo, a Category 3 hurricane, is forecast to make landfall in Comondú between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., “very probably” still at Category 3. She said that a “second impact” is forecast on the central coast of Sonora on Tuesday. She urged residents of Comondú, Mulegé and Loreto to stay in their homes or temporary shelters from 2 p.m. Monday. Governor Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío said “the three levels of government are together and ready” to respond to the hurricane.
• 📈 1.2 million jobs created in a year: Labor Minister Marath Bolaños said the number of people in jobs reached 60.7 million at the end of August, up 1.2 million from a year earlier, while the economically active population rose 1.3 million to 62.6 million. He didn’t mention that 55% of employed people work in the informal sector, where workers typically don’t pay income tax or have access to benefits such as IMSS healthcare.
• 📑 New Ayotzinapa report due at 1 p.m.: Sheinbaum said Deputy Interior Minister Arturo Medina and special prosecutor Mauricio Pazarán will present new “lines of inquiry” in the 2014 case of the 43 missing students. She stressed the investigation is “not closed” and said the students’ parents have already been informed of the report’s contents.

Why today’s mañanera matters

President Claudia Sheinbaum held her Monday morning press conference as Hurricane Polo continued to move toward Baja California Sur ahead of its forecast landfall later on Monday.

National Civil Protection chief Laura Velázquez joined the mañanera by video link to provide an update on the hurricane, which strengthened to Category 5 level last week before weakening. The hurricane remains a dangerous storm mere hours before it is expected to slam into the Baja California Sur coast.

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Also of note at today’s mañanera was the presentation of new employment data and Sheinbaum’s comments on a new report on the 12-year-old investigation into the disappearance and presumed murder of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College. The students disappeared on Sept. 26, 2014, in Iguala, a city in the southern state of Guerrero.

Scores of people have been arrested in connection with the case, but no one has been convicted of the crime and some suspects have been released from prison. Among those who have been detained are soldiers, high-ranking members of the Mexican Army, police officers, members of the Guerreros Unidos crime gang and Jesús Murillo Karam, federal attorney general at the time of the students’ disappearance.

Just last month, former Guerrero Governor Ángel Heladio Aguirre Rivero was arrested in connection with the crime, which shocked Mexico and provoked widespread outrage during the presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto.

Hurricane Polo approaches Baja California Sur 

At the start of her press conference, Sheinbaum noted that Hurricane Polo was on track to make landfall in Baja California Sur (BCS) on Monday afternoon before heading to Sonora.

Via video link from Ciudad Constitución in the BCS municipality of Comondú, Civil Protection chief Velázquez noted that Polo was a Category 3 hurricane. She said that the hurricane was forecast to make landfall in Comondú between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., “very probably” as a Category 3 hurricane.

Velázquez said that the hurricane was forecast to make a “second impact” on the central coast of Sonora on Tuesday.

“Wind, rain and swells will continue intensifying in Baja California Sur and Sonora,” she said.

Velázquez called on residents of various communities in the municipalities of Comondú, Mulegé and Loreto to “remain attentive to all the recommendations that Civil Protection authorities make, and to remain in their homes or in temporary shelters from 2 p.m. today.”

Seated alongside Velázquez, Governor Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío thanked Sheinbaum as “federal forces” — the army, the navy and the National Guard — have been working with BCS authorities in recent days to prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Polo.

He said that the municipalities of Comondú, Loreto and Mulugé were forecast to bear the brunt of the hurricane.

“We’re here in Comondú … to take care of all the people who need support, finalizing the last details at the shelters. … We still have half a day to finalize anything that is needed here in Comondú, in Loreto and in Mulegé, where it is believed Hurricane Polo will be strongest,” Castro said.

“… We hope that this … [hurricane] causes as little damage as possible. The three levels of government are together and ready,” he said.

Mexico’s workforce increases by more than 1 million in the space of a year 

Labor Minister Marath Bolaños noted that the National Employment Survey, conducted by the national statistics agency INEGI, found that Mexico’s “economically active population” — people either in jobs or looking for work — was 62.6 million people at the end of August, an increase of 1.3 million compared to a year earlier.

He also noted that the number of people in jobs was 60.7 million at the end of August, an increase of 1.2 million compared to a year earlier. In other words, 1.2 million jobs were created in Mexico in the 12 months to Aug. 31.

Bolaños didn’t note that 55% of people with jobs are employed in Mexico’s vast informal sector. Informal sector workers typically don’t pay income tax and don’t have access to employment benefits such as IMSS healthcare coverage and paid vacations.

New Ayotzinapa report to be presented on Monday  

Sheinbaum noted that a new report on the disappearance and presumed murder of the 43 students in the state of Guerrero in 2014 will be presented at 1 p.m. Monday.

She said that the report — to be presented by Deputy Interior Minister Arturo Medina and Mauricio Pazarán, special prosecutor for the Ayotzinapa case — includes information on “lines of inquiry” developed from “new mechanisms” and “new investigation methodologies that hadn’t [previously] been used.”

Sheinbaum stressed that the investigation into the disappearance of the 43 students — a crime in which the Mexican Army is long thought to have been involved — is “not closed.”

She said that the parents of the students have already been informed of the contents of the new report.

The remains of just three of the students have been found and formally identified in the 12 years since they disappeared.