From bad to worse…
***The PRD national council appointed Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo as interim president and Martha Dalia Gastélum as secretary general… These two will be in charge of the party until a solution is found to the post electoral crisis confronting the PRD. Acosta Naranjo, a member of the New Left movement which is backing Jesús Ortega, warned that the party of a “single man” is something of the past. He said that half of the party voted for Ortega, and that personalities must not be above institutions. But……Alejandro Encinas, who has been declared winner of the election, refused to accept the two appointments and reportedly his legal team is planning to challenge the resolution with the National Guarantees Commission since the party council met illegally.
What about the possible negotiations with the EPR…. Going no where…
***The emeritus bishop of Chiapas, Samuel Ruiz, said he trusted that the dialogue requested by the Popular Revolutionary Army with the federal government will have positive results but he criticized that these talks be conditioned to halting any all investigations against those responsible for attacks against oil pipelines last year. Ruiz was proposed as mediator. He said he has still not made direct contact with the EPR.
¿What is going-on in Guerrero?
***Meanwhile, 16 people were killed in Guerrero in a double attack perpetrated this weekend by an armed group against cattle breeder´s leader Rogaciano Alba Álvarez…The federal army increased security operations with federal and state agents both in Iguala and Petatlán, where the attacks occurred, and in the northern and Costa Grande areas of the state.
¿Lost Cause?
***Labor Secretary Javier Lozano called on both workers and the Cananea mine owners to sit down for talks and find a solution to the strike that has now lasted nine months…
***Shouting “neither pardon nor forgetting” hundreds of farmers from the town of San Salvador Atenco marched from the Angel of Independence Monument to the Zócalo… They demanded the liberation of at least 13 of their fellow activists who are still in prison two years after federal police clashed with villagers in Atenco.
Uggg Traffick...
**Thousands of vacationers returned from the long weekend that began last Thursday. The Public Security Ministry said that the most transit highways were the Mexico-Cuernavaca and Mexico-Querétaro.
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