++ The Chamber of Deputies approved a Law on Maximum Salaries to ensure that no public servant in Mexico earn a salary higher than that of the president.
++ While on his second day of a tour of London, President Felipe Calderón said he trusted that with the collaboration of British firms, Mexico will be able to renew its petroleum industry and turn it into a factor of national development.
Calderón also announced that Mexico will request a loan from the International Monetary Fund of between 30 to 40 billion dollars.
++ The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the OECD, suggested to Mexico that it should enter into debt at reasonable rates in domestic or foreign markets, as a first step to face the current drop in its income.
++ In January, the construction industry fell 6.3 percent compared to the same month last year.
++ U.S. Democratic and Republican Senators suggested increasing the budget to 550 million dollars to raise to over 2,000 the number of agents fighting the illegal flow of arms and drugs on the border with Mexico.
++ Mexican business chambers and the Public Security Secretariat signed an agreement to jointly battle, within their spheres, crimes such as extortion and payment of so-called “territorial rights” involving areas where salespeople set up their stalls.
++ The president of the Superior Agrarian Tribunal, Ricardo García Villalobos, said that a third of all fertile lands in Mexico goes to be planted with illegal marihuana and poppy crops.
++ Mexico is set to assume the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council… In that role Mexico will place emphasis on mediation as a means to correct controversies, the problem of children in armed conflicts and the situation in Haiti.
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