++ Closed circuit video camera recordings inside the Cieneguillas prison in Zacatecas confirm that the armed men who freed 53 inmates early last Saturday worked together with prison guards to carry out the rescue – in other words it was an inside job.
++ The Attorney General’s Office offered a 53-million peso reward for information leading to the whereabouts and arrest of the 53 prisoners – reportedly linked to drug cartels -- who broke out from the Cieneguillas penitentiary.
++ The Morelos Congress appointed Pedro Ruiz Benítez Vélez as new state attorney general… He takes over from Francisco Coronato Rodríguez, who resigned amid a scandal involving charges about several judiciary police commanders being tied to organized crime.
++ The FBI said that a Los Zetas unit operating in Texas bought a ranch there to train hired hit men to “neutralize” rival drug traffickers in the United States.
++ PRD leader Jesús Ortega said he found it "inexplicable" that Labor Party senator Ricardo Monreal took a leave of absence from the Senate, giving up his parliamentary immunity, to be able to be investigated in a case of alleged drug links… Ortega said he found it odd because Monreal has not actually been named in the investigation, only other members of his family such as his brothers.
++ The Federal District government, with the backing of the Scientific Council for Epidemiological Observation, lowered the health alert level in Mexico City from yellow to green… This means all activities in the city resume completely.
++ The World Health Organization said the United States remains at the top of the list of countries that have detected cases of A H1N1 influenza with 5,469 confirmed cases and 10 deaths… It is followed by Mexico with 4,008 infections and 78 deaths.
++ On a visit to Guanajuato, President Felipe Calderón acknowledged that Mexico is going through the most critical stage of the international economic crisis.
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