++ Speaking in Brazil, President Felipe Calderón suggested moving forward in efforts of joint Latin American cooperation to establish a multi-lateral response to confront organized crime, although he rejected the creation of a regional police force… He said he hoped there would be unity in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2010.
++ The Interior Secretariat supspended Francisco Javier González deputy director general of infrastructure and Carlos Juraidini, head of purchases, who were involved in the call for bids and hiring the company that gave maintenance and provided crews for the Learjet 45 in which Interior Secretary Camilo Mouriño was traveling when he was killed.
++ U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said that on Friday U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Patricia Espinosa, will meet in Washington with the security cabinets of both countries to set the following steps of the Mérida Initiative.
++The Inter-American Development Banks gave the go-ahead to a loan for 2 billion dollars for Mexico to fight poverty and improve access to education, health and nutrition by poverty-stricken sectors of the population.
++ The IFE told the Labor Party and Convergencia that they cannot register their alliance under the name of Broad Progressive Front, because under the law, a coalition cannot use names that are similar to other groups.
++ Dissident teachers lifted a protest camp that lasted 100 days in front of the SEP building in downtown Mexico City... They said they would return in early January to continue their protest against the Alliance for Quality in Education.
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