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Mexico, El Salvador presidents to meet on immigration

TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) him. Saying no to the likes
— The Mexican and Sal- of the notorious MS-13 and
vadoran presidents were 18th Street gangs is often a
meeting in Mexico on Thurs- death sentence.
day to discuss a develop- El Salvador President Nayib
ment plan that aims to slow Bukele took office June 1
a surge of mostly Central and shares López Obra-
American migrants toward dor's view on the need
the U.S. border. to creat opportunities in
The meeting came amid Central America. As in the
tough U.S. pressure on neighboring countries of
President Andrés Manuel Guatemala and Honduras,
López Obrador to do more thousands of Salvadorans
to curb irregular immigra- have left the country in re-
tion through Mexican ter- cent months to flee poverty
ritory. His government has and violence.
recently begun deploying Bukele has promised a
some 6,000 National Guard crackdown on gangs in his
agents to stem the influx country following a spate
and believes that creating of police and military kill-
more opportunities in Cen- ings, and on Thursday offi-
tral America is key to avoid- cers and soldiers began a
ing more migration. deployment in commercial
But at least some migrants A Haitian woman carries her daughter as she waits outside the Mexican Commission for Migrant areas of the Salvadoran
were skeptical despite Assistance office, to get the documents needed that allow them to stay in Mexico, in Tapachula, capital's historic center
"This is very good for them to early Thursday, June 20, 2019. and 11 other municipali-
offer jobs" to migrants, said Associated Press ties with a gang presence.
Carlos Vindel a 24-year-old Some 80% of gangs' rev-
driver from El Salvador who Vindel, traveling with two banks of the Suchiate River der on Tuesday. enues are said to come
was waiting to request asy- adults and two minors, at Talisman, across from "Even if there are (develop- from extortion, and Justice
lum in the southern Mexi- crossed the border a day Guatemala. The group had ment) projects, people are Minister Rogelio Rivas said
can city of Tapachula. "But later than expected be- to turn around and wait for going to keep leaving," said the offensive seeks to stran-
if the violence doesn't end cause he saw five uni- the agents to leave, and Vindel, who fled El Salvador gle financially "the terrorist
it won't work." formed agents on the ended up crossing the bor- after gangs tried to recruit groups."q

Trust in single power line played role in Argentine outage

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Raúl Bertero, president of
(AP) — Overconfidence Argentina's Center for the
in the capacity of a single Study of Energy Regulation,
transmission line may have said the operator knew the
played a role in a massive line was out of service or
power outage that left Ar- in "precarious" service and
gentina and parts of Uru- should have operated the
guay and Paraguay in the system "in such a way that
dark three days ago, ex- if something happened on
perts said Wednesday. the parallel line, the system
Argentina's government was not unbalanced be-
said the origin of the black- yond the possibility of con-
out was in northeast Argen- trolling it."
tina and hope to provide A representative of the
a detailed explanation of High-Voltage Electric Pow-
what caused the outage in er Transmission Company,
about 12 days. who was not authorized
What is known is that just af- to speak to the press and
ter 7 a.m. Sunday, a first fail- asked to not be identified,
ure occurred on a stretch said authorities are trying
of transmission line known A technician works to continue dismantling Tower 412 and replace it with a new tower, in the to "thoroughly investigate a
Litoral corredor near the town of Zarate, on the border of Buenos Aires and Entre Rios provinces,
as Colonia Elia Y Mercedes, Argentina, Wednesday, June 19, 2019 technical failure" and that
which was successfully iso- Associated Press the company will not say
lated. Seconds later the anything more until the in-
anomaly repeated itself in replaced one that had hydroelectric plants flowed tary Emilio Apud told The vestigation is completed.
the Colonia Elia-Belgrano been out of service since through the working line. Associated Press. The huge blackout raised
stretch in the city of Cam- April while a high-voltage "It seems to me that per- Apud said investigators serious questions about the
pana. This was not isolated transmission tower was haps it was a bit imprudent should look into whether vulnerability of the power
and ended up shutting being repaired. A bypass to put so much energy from the bypass was well con- grid in South America and
down the entire grid and was installed to keep the those two plants on a single structed and the failure of brought criticism down on
leaving tens of millions of system functioning while line with no back-up or the the protection systems that Argentina's leader. Presi-
people across three coun- the repairs were carried possibility that if it failed you put out of service all the dent Mauricio Macri has
tries without power. out. Electricity from the Ya- could count on something plants that had been work- promised a thorough inves-
The line ran parallel to and cyretá and Salto Grande else," former Energy Secre- ing. tigation into the outage.q