++ The Nation’s Supreme Court ruled that Oaxaca governor Ulises Ruiz is guilty of serious violations of human rights during the 2006 and 2007 conflict involving members of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca, or APPO.
++ President Felipe Calderón denied that the move to liquidate the Compañía de Luz y Fuerza utility company was aimed at undermining unions in Mexico… Calderon’s words came during his opening speech for the 51st Radio and Television Week.
++ Labor Secretary Javier Lozano set off a program to pay severance to workers at Luz y Fuerza willing to voluntarily step forward voluntarily… He said he had instructions from the president that within 60 days most workers laid-off from Luz y Fuerza would once again be working.
++ One thousand seven hundred members of the Mexican Electricians Union, or SME, the union at Luz y Fuerza, in the town of Juan Galindo, Puebla, followed union instructions and did not cash their severance payments.
++ Meanwhile top leaders at the SME are gathering signatures from retirees and former Luz y Fuerza employees to seek to present a temporary restraining order, or amparo, to block liquidation of the power utility.
++ The management committee at the Chamber of Deputies intends to lower spending at by 2010, among those costs, are 35 million pesos spent annually for food during committee meetings.
++ Rafael Acosta, Juanito, once again insisted he will return to his job as Iztapalapa´s borough chief… He said he did not quit, only requested a 59-day leave of absence…
++ Health Secretary José Ángel Córdova Villalobos said the A H1N1 influenza epidemic has cost Mexico 4.3 billion pesos… He said there are 40,800 confirmed infections and the epidemic has claimed 257 lives in Mexico.
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