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Friday 5 July 2024
Mexico’s incoming president announces top posts but her new

cabinet includes familiar faces

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mex- over the job.
ico’s incoming president But it was the appointment
announced her appoin- of Rodríguez that turned
tees for top posts Thursday, heads: a very poor pub-
but hopes for a fresh ap- lic speaker with no experi-
proach were dashed by ence in campaigns or as an
the re-appearance of old elected official, she breaks
faces in the new cabinet. the long-standing practice
President-elect Claudia of appointing experienced
Sheinbaum announced political pros often former
that Rosa Icela Rodríguez, state governors to the inte-
who headed outgoing rior ministry post, where ne-
President Andrés Manuel gotiating skills are key.
López Obrador’s failed se- Rodríguez is also closely
curity strategy, will serve as identified with López Ob-
the next interior secretary. rador’s “hugs not bullets”
That is Mexico’s top domes- strategy of not confronting
tic political post, respon- drug cartels, and militariz-
sible for handling nego- ing law enforcement. In his
tiations with protesters and six-year term, López Obra-
Mexico’s 32 powerful state dor has not been able to
governors. Sheinbaum will significantly reduce record-
take office Oct. 1. high levels of killings in Mex-
As expected, Omar Gar- Incoming President Claudia Sheinbaum waves during a press conference where she presented ico. Sheinbaum belongs to
cía Harfuch who served members of her Cabinet in Mexico City, Thursday, June 27, 2024. Pictured from left to right; López Obrador’s Morena
Health Secretary David Kershenobich, Internal Affairs Secretary Raquel Buenrostro, Energy
as Mexico City police chief Secretary Luz Elena Gonzalez, incoming President Claudia Sheinbaum, Agriculture Secretary party and has pledged to
when Sheinbaum was Edna Elena Vega Rangel and Transport and Communications Secretary Jesus Antonio Esteva continue all of his policies.
mayor was appointed to Medina. In June, she also asked
head Mexico’s increasingly Associated Press López Obrador’s Treasury
powerless Public Safety De- the numbers he claims are dead. partment and turn the Secretary, Rogelio Ramírez
partment, the top law-en- disputed. He gained re- Sheinbaum has pledged to 117,000-member force de la O, to stay on in the
forcement post. spect after he survived a strip control of the Nation- over to the Army. post. The job is similar to
García Harfuch is credited dramatic 2020 drug cartel al Guard, Mexico’s main García Harfuch will control that of a finance minister,
with bringing down homi- ambush that wounded him law enforcement agency, little other than the coun- controlling spending and
cides in the capital, though and left three other people from the Public Safety De- try’s prisons when he takes budgets.q

Iranian-born Norwegian man found guilty in 2022 Oslo LGBT+

festival attack, sentenced to 30 years

By JAN M. OLSEN LGBTQ+ festival in Oslo and the London Pub, a popular Espen Evjenth, who was hit mass shootings in Europe. In
Associated Press sentenced to 30 years in gay bar, on June 25, 2022. by a bullet in the forehead 2011, a right-wing extrem-
COPENHAGEN, Denmark prison. The Oslo District Court said at the London Pub, told the ist killed 69 people on the
(AP) — An Iranian-born Two people were killed and Zaniar shot 10 rounds with Norwegian news agency island of Utoya after setting
Norwegian man was found nine were seriously wound- a machine gun and eight NTB that it was “a great re- off a bomb in Oslo that left
guilty of terrorism on Thurs- ed in the shooting at three shots with a handgun into lief.” eight dead.
day in a 2022 attack on an locations, chiefly outside the crowd. It said Mata- Extensive video material of Six days before the attack,
pour had sworn allegiance the attack had been pre- Norway’s external intel-
to the Islamic State group sented in court. The ver- ligence agency, E-Tjen-
and “has been radicalized dict was not read in court esten, learned from an un-
for several years.” but sent out electronically. dercover agent that a pos-
His 30-year sentence was Matapour would have the sible action was expected
the highest penalty in Nor- verdict read to him in pris- in a Nordic country and the
way since terror legislation on, the court said. information was passed to
was changed in 2015. Matapour was overpow- the domestic security ser-
Matapour can request pa- ered by bystanders after vice.
role after 20 years but can the attack and arrested. Matapour had pleaded in-
only be released if he is Following the attack, a nocent. He was examined
deemed no longer danger- Pride parade was can- by a court-appointed psy-
ous. celed, with police saying chiatrist who concluded
Prosecutor Aud Kinsarvik they could not guarantee that he was sane at the
Gravås called it “the right security. time of the attack.
outcome” and “a histori- The shooting shocked Nor- During the trial, both the
cally severe punishment.” way, which has a relatively prosecution and the de-
Matapour’s lawyer, Marius low crime rate but has ex- fense agreed that Mata-
Dietrichson, said it was “a perienced a series of “lone pour fired into the crowd
Zaniar Matapour appears in court in Oslo, Norway, March 12, severe punishment” and wolf” attacks by individu- and there was no disagree-
2024. that they have not yet de- als in recent decades, in- ment that the shooting was
Associated Press
cided whether to appeal. cluding one of the worst terror motivated. q