++ Thousands of workers belonging to the Mexican Electricians Union (SEM) headed by Martín Esparza Flores, staged a march from the Angel of Independence monument to the Zócalo square to protest over the closing down of power utility Luz y Fuerza del Centro.
Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca, the APPO, and UNAM workers union members also took part as did PRD and PT militants and former presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
++ Esparza Flores said the only intermediary SME is willing to recognize is Mexico City mayor Marcelo Ebrard who said he would talk to the government on behalf of the union.
++ Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Mont said the federal government is willing to talk to members of the Mexican Electricians Union.
++ Two hundred workers from now defunct power utility Luz y Fuerza del Centro filed legal writs challenging the decision by President Calderón to close down Luz y Fuerza del Centro Utility Co.
++ The Chamber of Deputies created a mixed task force to study the viability of presenting a constitutional controversy challenging the presidential decree that ordered the liquidation of power utility Luz y Fuerza del Centro.
++ The Supreme Court will send its report on the Oaxaca decision, which found governor Ulises Ruiz guilty of serious violations to human rights during the APPO protests in 2006 and 2007, to all the country’s governors and state congresses since it includes recommendations and guidelines on the way public forces should be used so as to avoid abuses and excessive violence.
++ The federal government authorized the first genetically modified maize crops in Mexico.
++ The Communications and Transportation Secretariat said businessman Carlos Slim’s real estate firm Grupo IDEAL has acquired the North Pacific highways package, with a construction investment estimated at four billion pesos.
++ Gunmen attacked the mayor of Tiquicheo, Michoacán, María Santos Gorrostieta, gravely wounding her and killing her husband.
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