++ We got a budget for 2010!!!! Sort of…After a long session, the Chamber of Deputies approved the spending portion of the 2010 budget for the amount of 3.176 trillion pesos. The spending budget was passed with a 437-25 vote… It sets cutbacks for the federal government and increases funding for states, municipalities and agrarian programs. Farming was one the sectors that most benefited…. The amount allotted to foster agriculture was set at roughly 269 billion pesos, being more generous than the initial amount included in the original spending proposal from the Executive branch. In contrast, the Opportunities Program, a social program to fight extreme poverty with small stipends for families with children who attend school classes rather than drop out, was reduced by just over three billion pesos, from the original 17.362 billion pesos proposed. Deputies approved a 14-billion peso increase in the public education budget… Of the amount assigned, 9.331 billion pesos are for university level educational institutions. President Felipe Calderón pledged to spend the funds included in the spending budget in a responsible and transparent manner.
++ Corruption in Mexico? You have to kidding…Mexico was assigned slot 89 in the list of 180 countries covered in the Corruption Perception Index… Mexico earned a 3.3 rating, on a 0-10 scale. Chile and Uruguay were the Latin American countries that fared best in the Corruption Perception Index; they obtained the 25th spot on the list, with 6.7 points.
++ It is NOT DENGUE!!! The Health Secretariat warned that physicians are incorrectly diagnosing dengue fever as influenza… Out of more than 105,000 cases reported as possible dengue fever this year, only 50,000 have been confirmed as dengue fever… The remaining cases could be either influenza or another respiratory disease…
++ Good News..The Mexican Stock Exchange rose to its highest level since June 5, 2008… The IPC stock index increased 1.28 percent reaching 31,400 points.
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2 comments:
I’d sweetie to ordeal that too!
Three things:
1. Explain the comment by anonymous above.
2. The newspaper El Universal´s main headline on Page One the other day about the Corruption Perception Index was wrong and grossly irresponsible. Instead of saying that the perception of corruption had gone up, it said corruption had gone up. Big difference.
3. Your dengue item: I believe you´ve got the first sentence backwards. The Health Secretariat warned, it should read (I think) that the doctors are incorrectly diagnosing influenza as dengue, not dengue as influenza, as it´s written here.
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