As a result, several of their leading employees resigned: Dr. Debra Houry, the senior doctor, Dr. Daniel Jernigan, the director of the National Center for Newly occurring and zoonotic infectious diseases, and Dr. Demetre Daskalaki, MD, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. “I am no longer able to hold this office because public health care is increasingly being used as a weapon,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalaki according to the British “Guardian”.
The Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called up the US authorities to hand over the confiscated assets of the convicted Mexican drug boss Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada to Mexico. “If the US government re-enabled capital, we would ask you to give it to Mexico for the poorest people,” Sheinbaum said on Wednesday in front of journalists in Mexico City.
The Zambada, arrested in the USA, had guilty on Monday in court of murder and drug trafficking. According to US Justice Minister Pam Bondi, the co-founder of the infamous Sinaloa cartel must spend the rest of his life behind bars. Zambada also agreed that the US authorities confiscated $ 15 billion (around 12.8 billion euros) of values that he had accumulated through drug transactions. Sheinbaum now wants to distribute this fortune to Mexico’s arms.
Zambada was arrested in the Texas border town of El Paso in July 2024 after landing there in a private plane together with a son of Sinaloa co-founder Joaquín “El Chapo”. Zambada then said that he was lured, kidnapped and forced on the plane by force. Zambada, who was often referred to as “El Mayo”, founded the Sinaloa cartel in the 1990s together with the Joaquín “El Chapo” “El Chapo”, which was also imprisoned in the USA. For decades he was able to escape the investigators, the United States had suspended bounty of $ 15 million.
The US government took over the management of the Union Station in Washington, DC, from the long-distance company Amtrak. Transport Minister Sean Duffy said on Wednesday that the decision was made to renovate the city’s main traffic throat because it “got into a state of expiry”. He emphasized that Union Station should be “a point of pride” for Washington and added: “By recovering the management of the station, we will help make this city safe and beautiful.”
