News Summary for June 25th, 2009

++ The Attorney General’s Office took on the investigation into the fire at the privately run ABC nursery in Hermosillo, that was part of the IMSS day care centers system… The fire led to the deaths of 47 infants…

++ Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Mont said the decision by the Attorney General’s Office to take on the investigation is evidence of its commitment to get to the bottom of the matter.

Gómez Mont called on Sonora Governor Eduardo Bours to tone down his accusations against President Calderón in connection to the day care center tragedy.

++ In response, Bours asked Interior Secretary Gómez Mont to stop playing victim, since, he said, the true victims are the 47 children who were killed and their families.

++ Meanwhile Michoacán Governor Leonel Godoy said that cooperation and subordination are not to be confused, this in response to President Calderón’s claims that state government provide little support in the battle against organized crime.

++ President Felipe Calderón said he agreed with the demand that legislators be allowed to run for consecutive terms in Congress… He also asked citizens to renew their interest in politics…And the chairman of the SOS citizen’s group Alejandro Martí lashed out once again at the inefficiency and corruption rife among Mexico’s political class…

++ There will be no debating on the night PRI, PAN and PRD leaders take part in a program to be broadcast on Televisa’s Channel 2… They’ll only be “chatting” or at least that’s what spokespeople for those parties would have us believe…(Comment: Why run away from the opportunity to debate, to explain to the voters what your position is? No wonder people don´t want to go out and vote!!)

++ Unemployment rose to 5.31 percent in May… That level is higher than the April unemployment rate.

++ U.S. drug officials announced that the United States will in July send special land units to Mexico… Those units are to help in the search for arms and drugs… In December, Washington send five helicopters to shore up the fight against organized crime.