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Juntos I Jueves 09 de abril 2026

April 10, 2026·46 min·3 clips

A protest group storms the Mexico City Congress, leading to clashes and extinguisher use during a legislative session.

1. Juntos, the Grupo Fórmula afternoon news programme, airs on Thursday 9 April 2026 at 5 p.m. Central Mexico time with Gina Trejo Briceño hosting in place of Jaime Núñez, who is transmitting from Paris as part of a Sanofi media event. 2. Gina Trejo Briceño serves as anchor and newsreader for the full programme, fielding live connections from correspondents across Mexico City, Tabasco, Mazatlán, and Monterrey. 3. The programme opens with a breaking story: the Asamblea de Barrios, a housing-rights group formed after the 1985 earthquake, stormed the Mexico City Congress building during an active session on Donceles and Allende street. 4. Reporter Ulises Soriano describes the group breaking metal barriers from nearby public works on Popotillo street, shattering the Congress building's historic facade windows, and forcing legislators to deploy fire extinguishers from inside the building to disperse the crowd. 5. After dispersal, the protesters marched down Donceles street to the Zócalo, where they were received by representatives of the city's Secretaría de Gobierno for a housing-demands dialogue; no arrests or injuries were reported. 6. Reporter Laura Cardoso confirms the Mexico City Congress condemned the violence through an official communiqué while affirming its openness to dialogue with citizens and civil organisations who respect legality and institutional channels. 7. Caifanes, the Mexican rock band, had a concert at the Otomí Commercial Center in Temoaya, Estado de México scheduled for 18 April cancelled permanently, with full refunds including service charges available through the e-ticket website. 8. The Comisión Reguladora de Telecomunicaciones reminded listeners that 82 days remained to register cell phone lines with their carriers by 30 June 2026, either through the carrier's portal or in person with official ID and CURP, with three attempts allowed for online registration. 9. Jenny Valencia reported that March 2026 inflation in Mexico fell marginally from 4.63% to 4.59% annually, with a monthly increase of 0.86%; tomatoes led price increases at 42.01%, followed by cucumber, lemon, tomatillo, potato, chicken, and airfare. 10. IMSS's Eduardo Alcaraz Proust presented the March 2026 employment bulletin showing 22,724,680 formally registered jobs — the highest ever recorded for a March — of which 87% are permanent and 155,520 correspond to platform digital workers under a scheme launched in July of the previous year. 11. The average IMSS base cotisation salary stands at 663.5 pesos per day, up 44 pesos and 7.1% from March the previous year — the highest on record — directly affecting the size of incapacity payments and retirement fund accumulation for workers. 12. Alcaraz clarified that a decline in employer registrations, particularly for companies with fewer than five workers, reflects administrative controls to prevent benefit fraud rather than business closures, and that employment and salary trends are both positive. 13. The states with the largest annual employment growth were Mexico City, Estado de México, Baja California, and Nuevo León, partly driven by platform digital worker registrations concentrated in those areas. 14. Jorge Islas, Deputy Secretary for Planning and Energy Transition at the Secretaría de Energía, announced a free two-day Energy Innovation Fair at the MUNED museum (Museo Nacional de Energía y Tecnología) in the second section of Bosque Chapultepec, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on 14 and 15 April, with 30 activities and 100 stands. 15. Islas explained Mexico's 2025 biofuels law and biogas potential: agricultural residues such as corn stalks — which represent roughly 40% of Mexico's primary energy offer — can be gasified in biodigesters to produce biogas for domestic use or biomethane injectable into existing natural gas grid infrastructure. 16. An uncontrolled fire broke out in the coke warehouse of the Dos Bocas Olmeca refinery in Paraíso, Tabasco at approximately 4 p.m. on 9 April, just hours after a safety drill was conducted at the complex and at the same location where Pemex had the previous Monday claimed an incident was only water vapour rather than a gas leak. 17. Mazatlán, Sinaloa is hosting the International Motorcycle Week — described as the largest of its kind in Latin America — in its fifth consecutive year, expecting 15,000 riders from across the Americas and projecting 800 to 900 million pesos in economic impact, with rock concerts honouring Mexican rock music nightly through Saturday. 18. Police confirmed two arrests related to the 29 September 2025 murder of celebrity stylist Mickey Herr in Polanco: Ángel Llorel Díaz (19 years old, arrested 6 March on drug charges in Tlatelolco and later served a murder warrant) and Kevin Anthony Hernández, bringing the total detainees in the case to three. 19. The programme format is fast-paced, with Gina Trejo Briceño managing multiple live correspondents, sports ticket giveaways for the Pumas vs. Mazatlán match on Sunday 12 April, and audience interaction via social media and phone. 20. The episode is suited to Spanish-speaking listeners who follow Mexico City local news, national economics, energy policy, and general current affairs; those seeking single-topic depth or international coverage will find the multi-story format and frequent commercial breaks limiting.

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