Hermosillo Update

The PGR is investigating the owners of the day-care center where 45 young children and infants perished in a fire last week for manslaughter. The PGR's boss, Eduardo Medina Mora, confirmed that the day-care center was discovered with "security irregularities" as far back as 2005. 

After spending much of the past week in Hermosillo, Ana María Salazar wonders why the state and federal governments aren't taking this more seriously: 

What a shame that the government of Mexico City and some governors announced last Monday that they would be revising all day-care centers, and in Sonora, epicenter of the tragedy, little or nothing has been done in this regard. 

In what is called the criminal investigation, I wonder, what would have happened if the 44 victims had come from Hermosillo's upper social class? Would the partners in the day-care center have been jailed if they weren't members of Hermosillo's golden class or if they didn't have links to the state and federal government?

Do Attorney General of the Republic Eduardo Medina Mora and the Attorney General of Sonora Abel Murrieta Gutiérrez understand that the investigation of the tragedy of the ABC day-care center is the most important they have in front of them at the moment and that it will define the credibility of the institutions that they represent? Much more important than the investigations of murders by organized crime and other crimes, the deaths of these 44 children have gotten to all of us.