++ Jesús Ortega Martínez, a candidate to head the PRD, filed a complaint with the Federal Electoral Tribunal against election results that gave victory to his opponent Alejandro Encinas.
++ The IFE approved fines of 50 million pesos for the PAN, Green Ecologist Party, the Convergencia party and Alternativa for unreported spots during 2006.
++ PRI deputy Juan Francisco Rivera called on the federal government to halt the wave of violence caused by vendettas among bands of narcotics traffickers… He said operations against organized crime are not working.
++ Federal District police have found a suspect in the murder of Roberto Velásquez Bravo, director of organized crime investigations at the Federal Public Security Secretariat.
++ TV Azteca will contest a 5-million-peso fine levied against the television station by the IFE general council for failing to broadcast political party spots. An attorney for TV Azteca, Salvador Rocha, said the resolution was baseless.
++ Amnesty International demanded that the Mexican government punish federal and state officials as well as police agents who took part in clashes with residents of San Salvador Atenco… Two years after the incident occurred, no policeman has been sentenced for abuses committed during the fighting.
++ Members of the Land Defense Front of the Peoples of San Salvador Atenco demanded the liberation of 16 of their fellow activists being held in a penitentiary.
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