++ The Lower House of Congress approved changes to the format of the president’s annual report to the nation…The president may hand in a written report and there will be no need for him to personally read the document at the legislature.
++ Lawmakers also asked the Comptroller’s Office and the Interior Ministry to investigate a 90-million-peso donation made by Jalisco governor Emilio González Márquez to build a temple for Mexican martyrs.
++ The Senate Official Daily published an announcement of forums for the energy debate to be held from May 13 to July 22.
++ After the PRD announced that Alejandro Encinas won the party election, Dolores de los Ángeles Nazares quit the national guarantees commission saying that the vote tally was “illegal” since not all ballots were counted.
++ And Jesús Ortega’s team accused the National Guarantees Commission and the technical electoral committee of conniving so that Alejandro Encinas take over as PRD president.
++ President Felipe Calderón said the duty of the government is to improve the lives of the poorest of the poor… He launched a Feeding Program for marginalized zones that will help 280,000 families.
++ Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño said that he has still not made contact with a committee appointed by the Popular Revolutionary Army to start dialogue.
++ Attorney Generals of México, El Salvador, Guatemala and Belice supported a petition by U.S. president George W. Bush for the U.S. Congress to approve funds allocated to the Mérida Initiative.
++ The Federal District Legislative Assembly said that Mexico is the fifth country in Latin America with the highest rate of child sexual trade and the 28th on a world level.
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