News Summary for October 9th, 2009

++ With the PAN standing in opposition the Chamber of Deputies called on Labor Secretary Javier Lozano to recognize Martín Esparza Flores as leader of the Mexican Electricians Union.

++ Martín Esparza Flores led an Electricians Union march from the Angel of Independence to Los Pinos… Esparza Flores charged that a “lynching campaign” is underway to destroy the union.

++ President Calderón’s chief of staff Luis Felipe Bravo Mena met with a delegation from the Mexican Electricians Union headed by Martín Esparza Flores… They handed in a letter addressed to Calderón in which they explained their opposition to Esparza Flores not be recognized as union leader.

++ Meanwhile, dissident workers at the Petróleos Mexicanos union called for the resignation of secretary general, Carlos Romero Deschamps, in keeping with a judge’s sentence.

++ The PAN Chamber of Deputies caucus proposed a law to cut political party public funding by 50 percent.

++ The PRD said it supported Value Added Tax on junk food and medicines that only pull the wool over customer’s eyes…

++ The Health Secretariat said 20 million doses of vaccines against the A H1N1 influenza virus are guaranteed… The first batch of five million will arrive at the end of December and there would be a new batch per month from January through March, officials said.

++ Federal police in Guerrero arrested Jorge Alberto López Orozco, one of the 10 most wanted criminals listed by the FBI… His photograph is on the same list with Osama Bin Laden.