Friday, June 26, 2009

News Summary for June 26th, 2009


++ Mexican and Chilean presidents Felipe Calderón and Michelle Bachelet agreed to strengthen trade between their two countries and take advantage of opportunities that will surface once the global recession is over. Navy Secretary Francisco Saynez said the government’s fight against narcotics trafficking knows no rest and neither does it tolerate criminal groups.

++ Ninety police officers have been arrested in Pachuca, Hidalgo, because of alleged links to organized crime.

++ IMSS director general Daniel Karam acknowledged that the Mexican Social Security Institute is partially to blame for the tragedy at the ABC day care center in Hermosillo, Sonora… But he said city and state governments are equally to blame… Sonora governor Eduardo Bours Castelo hailed the Attorney General’s Office decision to take on the investigation into the fire at the ABC day care center that killed 47 young children… Bours however, called on Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Mont to stop acting as if he were attorney general. PRD chief Jesús Ortega said the federal government and the Sonora government are playing “tit for tat” in relation to the ABC nursery tragedy… Both governments are failing to acknowledge their responsibility in the fire that led to the deaths of 47 children, according to Ortega.

++ State of Mexico governor Enrique Peña Nieto warned Congress that he will continue to campaign for PRI candidates on his time off, when he’s not on the job, since it is legal, he said…

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

There will be one day a newspaper, radio program, tv that really give mexican news? politics, cultures, technology, cience, lots of good good artist singers, actors, and nobody wants to really make good news about mexico. See the french papers, they do better Mrs. Salazar? Are you Mexican????