++ Big changes in the cabinet… President Felipe Calderón announced that Eduardo Medina Mora will no longer be Attorney General and he will propose Arturo Chávez Chávez to the Senate to be his replacement. (Comment: The Attorney General is one of the few cabinet level positions that require Senate ratification.) Alberto Cárdenas was removed as Agriculture Secretary and Jesús Reyes Heroles as head of Petróleos Mexicanos… Francisco Javier Mayorga Castañeda will take over the agriculture portfolio and Juan José Suárez Coppel will be new Pemex head.
++ Heavy rainstorms in Mexico City and the State of Mexico affected Atizapán and Tlalnepantla, in the State of Mexico… 1,500 people were evacuated from Atizapán, and in the Valle Dorado housing complex in Tlalnepantla, 1,000 homes suffered drainage system flooding… Waste water rose to nearly 2 meters high… Three people died.
++ The Mexico City Water System acknowledged the city’s deep and surface drainage systems were insufficient to deal with the heavy rains that fell Sunday night… Three hours of constant rain dumped 27 billion liters of water on Mexico City – which would be equivalent to 13 Azteca stadiums.
++ Rain affected the subway system as rainwater flooded railway lines… Five metro stations had to suspend service because of flooding. Heavy rain also hit the Mexico City Airport affecting 217 flights… Some were unable to land because of the poor weather conditions.
++ The Finance Secretariat will include an “anti-poverty tax” in the 2010 economic package it is set to present to the Chamber of Deputies.
++ The Mexican Social Security Institute said that because of its difficult financial situation, it will propose to Congress that it be allowed to use IMSS’s special strategic reserves.
++ Julio César Godoy Toscano, half brother of Michoacán governor Leonel Godoy and an elected deputy, obtained special legal protection under which the Attorney General’’s Office cannot arrest him on charges of alleged links to drug traffickers.
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i'm curious as to how this anti-poverty tax will work. knowing our politicians it will probably be about taxing the poor for being just that. that should motivate them to stop being poor. who likes paying taxes after all?
is it an irony or are there grounds to say someone in the D.F. haven't been doing their job when it comes to recycling and taking advantage of all the rain water they get this time of the year? as bad as the situation has been (and seems to remain in the foreseeable future) in terms of supplying running water to people's homes one almost can't believe not a single drop of all this rain is gonna be saved from being a total waste.
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