++ In view of a failure to reach agreement for the Broad Progressive Front to free up tribunes at the congress, senators and deputies held congressional work sessions at other venues.
++ The Broad Progressive Front handed in a counterproposal, suggesting that debate and discussion on oil reform las four months, from May until August.
++ The Senate political affairs board rejected the counterproposal and said that debate on energy reform will take place during 50 consecutive days, as approved by the majority of senators.
++ The speaker of the Lower House of Congress, Ruth Zavaleta, gave legislators of the Broad Progressive Front 24 hours to relinquish the tribune, or she would cancel Thursday’s session to welcome the president of India.
++ The Chamber of Deputies approved a trip by President Felipe Calderón to New Orleans to attend the North American leaders summit from April 21st to April 23rd.
++ Meanwhile, Calderón, at an event in Quintana Roo, said he was certain that efforts to “divide Mexicans” would not progress and he made a call for everyone to work towards common goals.
++ Arturo Núñez and Edmundo Cancino, the two members of the technical elections committee at the PRD, resigned… They said that conditions prevented them completing the party elections vote tally.
++ A study by Mexican Transparency said that in 2007, 27 billion pesos were paid out in bribes in Mexico.
++ And the Guatemalan government confirmed that Mexican national Daniel Pérez Rojas, known as “El Cachetes” (Cheeks), captured on April 9th, is second in command of the “Los Zetas” group, who are hired gunmen working for the Gulf drug cartel.
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