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Authorities announced that 2,527 workers have gone for their severance payments… More than 13,000 retired workers received their pensions out of a total of 22,356.
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Lawyers for the Mexican Electricians Union or SME said they would file individual legal protection writs or amparos, as well as collective ones, challenging the presidential decree ordering the liquidation of Luz y Fuerza. They plan to also file lawsuits for unfair dismissals.
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The Finance Committee at the Chamber of Deputies has failed to reach any agreements on the 2010 Fiscal Package...Sticking points are the two-percent tax on consumption and other taxes…
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PRD senators’ leader Carlos Navarrete said his party’s proposal is the most viable and responsible since it’s not banking on Mexico’s financial collapse…
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The Finance Secretariat said that if the two-percent consumption tax were approved, it would mean revenue equaling 2.7 percent of 2010 Gross Domestic Product, that would go to fight poverty…
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Elections in Tabasco to elect 17 new mayors, 21 local deputies and 14 deputies by proportional representation, were carried out in relative calm…Some incidents were reported in Comalcalco, Teapa, Tacotalapa and Huimanguilllo... Voter surveys were indicating the PRI won the capital and recovered other municipalities previously held by the PRD such as Cárdenas, Comalcalco, Tenosique and Macuspana…
* The PRI also appeared to have done well in elections in Coahuila to choose mayors in 38 municipalities… No major incidents were reported aside from the discovery of three bodies found in front of a voting booth in Torreón… Governor Humberto Moreira denied the incident was in any way connected to the elections.
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As of this weekend the Catholic Church will implement new health measures aimed at trying to curb the spread of influenza… Among them there will no longer be shaking hands or kissing during the peace greeting, and Communion host will be given in the hands of the faithful rather than in their mouths.
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The weather service said Hurricane "Rick" was beginning to weaken although it retained a Category 5 status… Hurricane Rick continued to be an extremely dangerous storm and could shift towards the Northwest to make landfall in Baja California Sur in coming days…
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