++ Deputies were still grappling with the 2010 Spending Budget although sessions had still to be renewed…
Late Sunday, the Budget Committee had given the go-ahead to the initial draft bill of the budget for 3.176 trillion pesos, nearly four billion pesos more than the original budget submitted by the Executive branch.
++ Senate speaker Carlos Navarrete said that President Calderón might well exercise his veto power if the 2010 budget turns into “pirates’ treasure loot.” … He charged that PRI points of view have prevailed throughout the budget approval process…
++ PAN senators’ leader Gustavo Madero rejected the view that the proposal to do away with the tourism, agrarian reform and public office secretariats is “dead.”
++ The leader of the Mexican Electricians Union Martín Esparza denied that over 60 percent of workers at the Luz y Fuerza del Centro power utility had signed up to receive their severance payments.
++ Labor Secretary Javier Lozano denied that figures about former workers at Luz y Fuerza del Centro are fake, improved upon or fabricated, since the information is real, official and would bear up to auditing, he said.
++ Authorities feared that in addition to the damage wreaked by flooding in Tabasco, the population could fall prey to a dengue fever outbreak, because of the spread of mosquitoes that carry the disease.
++ Rivers that flooded over have returned to their regular levels in southern Veracruz and life was slowly returning to normal there… However, forecasters were predicting the arrival of cold front number 10 that would bring rains that could add to river levels once again…
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