++ President Felipe Calderón presented a plan to slim down government in Mexico that includes doing away with three secretariats: Tourism; Agrarian Reform and Public Office… He said the 2010 economic package proposes strengthening the state of the nation’s finances to fight poverty.
++ Finance Secretary Agustín Carstens confirmed that the 2010 economic package includes increases to gasoline and diesel fuel rates.
++ Businessman Carlos Slim said that social programs are not the way to reduce poverty, but rather that only happens when jobs are created.
++ The Federal District Labor Secretariat said that unemployment in the second quarter in Mexico City rose to its highest level since 1995, reaching 6.9 percent.
++ PRD senator Graco Ramírez criticized Juan José Suárez Coppel being appointed to head Pemex, since, he charged, it was Suárez Coppel who caused the state-owned oil firm’s current state of bankruptcy.
++ The PAN will file an appeal of the Federal Electoral Tribunal’s decision to annul elections in Miguel Hidalgo and Cuajimalpa boroughs.
++ Rafael Acosta, known as “Juanito,” said he will not step down after winning the election for borough chief in Iztapalapa as he had agreed with to do with Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The plan had been that Juanito, backed by the PT, would leave the job to a female politician from within the PRD that belongs to the movement still allied with López Obrador.
++ Michoacán governor Leonel Godoy, contradicting earlier reports, said it was still no certain whether there will actually be a street celebration of the Independence “Grito” after last year’s tragic explosions that killed eight people.
++ Federal and local municipal police capture six suspected kidnappers and killers of youthful kidnap victims Fernando Martí and Antonio Equihua... Three of them were Federal District judiciary police who were handing over information to the Beltrán Leyva drug cartel.
++ The State of Mexico Water Secretariat found several large fissures in the Emisor Poniente, a drainage and sewage canal leading out of the Federal District into the State of Mexico… The State of Mexico Water Secretariat said the damage found in the sewage canal could potentially endanger hundreds of people.
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