The Supreme Court agreed to set up a committee to investigate whether grave violations to human rights were committed in the case of the fire at the ABC day care center in Hermosillo in which 49 infants were killed… The court authorized the committee and will also look into the system of privately owned day care centers being part of the IMSS system.
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Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya spoke with Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Patricia Espinosa, to deny that he had backed Andrés Manuel López Obrador … This according to a press release from the Foreign Affairs Secretariat… Zelaya said his remarks were taken out of context.
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President Felipe Calderón said the country is close to a new economic outlook… He said there are already some signs of recovery with jobs being created over the last two months, and furthermore the Mexican Stock Exchange rebound and the strength of the banking system.
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The Office of the Presidency confirmed that President Felipe Calderón will be meeting privately with his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama as well as with Canada’s Primer Minister Stephen Harper, at a North American leaders summit starting this weekend.
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PRD Senator René Arce filed a request with his party to expel Andrés Manuel López Obrador because if his erroneous behavior during the midterm election campaigns, because he supported other party candidates… Arce said that what López Obrador did was the main reason the PRD did so badly in the elections.
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IFE councilor Alfredo Figueroa called for a debate on the new Identity Card, involving not only the government and the IFE, but also the legislative and judiciary branches.
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The National Human Rights Commission challenged a report commissioned and disseminated by the Attorney General’s Office about U.S. independent reporter Brad Will’s death in Oaxaca… The Human Rights Commission said the document is not a forensic report but rather an opinion, lacking judicial weight under Mexican law.
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