++ PAN national leader César Nava said his party will not evade its responsibility to approve new taxes and pledged to work towards an in-depth fiscal reform. PRD head Jesús Ortega, demanded of the PRI and the PAN that they face citizens and recognize that they approved increases to taxes.
++ Communications and Transportation authorities confirmed that air turbulence that struck the plane in which former Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mouriño and former drug czar José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos was what caused the Lear jet they were traveling in to crash a year ago. Both men were killed in the accident as were several other passengers and the crew. The Communications and Transportation Secretariat also said that the investigation found that the pilots were poorly trained and that air controllers had a heavy work load.
++ The U.S. government in coordination with Mexican authorities is developing an all encompassing border strategy to fight organized crime in the next 11 months.
++ Nine mayors in the Nuevo León metropolitan zone launched a joint effort to keep organized crime from infiltrating government offices.
++ Heavy rains in Tabasco caused two rivers to flood over forcing 44,000 people from their homes… The Interior Secretariat declared an emergency in the area. Gustavo A. Madero borough chief Víctor Hugo Lobo said that 7,000 children at schools in Cuautepec flooded by Friday’s deluge in Mexico City and the State of Mexico resumed classes.
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