++ The speaker of the Lower House of Congress, Ruth Zavaleta, asked President Felipe Calderón to authorize that debate on oil reform last four months.
++ PAN deputy Héctor Larios said that a formal event at the Chamber of Deputies planned to welcome the president of India Pratibha Patil, was cancelled since Broad Progressive Front lawmakers refused to put an end to their protest.
++ The Broad Progressive Front said it would no longer deal with the PRI and called on the PAN and the federal government to set the terms for national dialogue on energy reform… PRD senator Ricardo Monreal said that in exchange for a broad discussion on the matter, lawmakers would take a more moderate approach in their civil resistance actions.
++ IFE council chairman, Leonardo Valdés, denied that the 2009 elections are at risk because opposition lawmakers have taken over both houses of Congress.
++ The PRD’s national executive committee has not replaced the two members of the elections committee who resigned… The decision makes it impossible to renew the vote counts in the nine states that are still pending…
++ In other news, Colombia’s President Álvaro Uribe, who was in Quintana Roo, said that four Mexicans who were killed when Colombia attacked a FARC camp in Ecuador were terrorists.
++ Calderón asked Uribe not to make quick judgments and to wait until investigations have been completed.
++ In response, the UNAM condemned Uribe’s accusations and said that Colombia’s president was offending – whilst in Mexican territory -- the memory of the university students who were killed in Ecuador.
++ And a video has been circulating on the Internet showing Raúl Reyes, the FARC leader slain in the attack, as he asks Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa to strengthen ties with the guerrilla group.
++ Four of the five suspects in the failed bomb attack on Chapultepec Avenue were ordered to prison, among them Tania Vázquez Muñoz, the woman wounded in the explosion.
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