Sonora schools host extortion-prevention sessions
Original reporting: Proyecto Puente
What happened
The Sonora observatory organized prevention talks in Huatabampo and Navojoa, including three sessions in the ejido 24 de Abril and activities at UES and CECyTES campuses.
Reporting and context
The Sonora chapter of the Observatorio de Seguridad Ciudadana Pro México has completed a series of extortion-prevention sessions in schools and communities in Huatabampo and Navojoa, according to Proyecto Puente. The activities aimed to help students and residents recognize risks and protect themselves.
The organization, led by Francisco Vázquez Valencia, held three sessions in the ejido 24 de Abril in Huatabampo, with support from local CECyTES director Arturo Valle Patiño. Activities continued on Friday, November 6, at the Universidad Estatal de Sonora's Navojoa campus, directed by José Alan Ochoa Arreola, where a second intervention took place, and at the CECyTES campus in El Júpare, Huatabampo, headed by Yadira Ereyda Valdez Nieblas.
Proyecto Puente reported that Luis Alberto Rojas Moreno and Ana Karen Santos García, specialists from the Security and Citizen Protection Secretariat's anti-kidnapping and anti-extortion area, delivered the talks. They explained how to identify risky situations and measures that can help prevent extortion.
The project was coordinated with the Supreme Court's Casa de los Saberes Jurídicos in Hermosillo, directed by José Carmelo Vázquez Valencia. The sessions formed part of a recently signed agreement between the institutions and were held within the framework of the General Law to Prevent, Investigate and Punish Extortion Offenses.
The observatory thanked the schools and their directors for helping bring prevention information to students and communities in southern Sonora.
Original publication: Proyecto Puente.