Rocha removes Qian from Sinaloa Health Ministry

Culiacan, Sinaloa. For failing to comply with the 48-hour deadline to withdraw any complaints against journalists by Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha Moya, Hector Melecio Cuen Ojeda was removed from the post of head of the State Health Secretariat,

“In front of inequality, I inform you of my decision to remove you as Secretary of Health“, reads the official letter addressed to Hector Melecio Cuen Ojeda and signed by the governor of Sinaloa.

The 48-hour deadline for any Sinaloa government official to withdraw any complaints against journalists expired at 2:00 this Wednesday.

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“The 48-hour period given to effect has elapsed, It is verified that you have been negligent in complying with the instructions issuedSince he did not submit the return, nor did he prove the legal conclusion of the procedures established by his acts of will,” it reads.

This file for 43/2016, filed before the First District Court of the State of Sinaloa, c. Luis Enrique Ramirez and Universal and Content Journalism Source SA DE CV, Sue “For arbitrarily and abusively exercising the freedom of expression and the right to information.”

and File 79/2018, c. Maria Theresa Guerra OchoaWhich he sued for “acting illegally in exercise of freedom of expression and right to inform and causing moral damage to the undersigned”.