The wave of attacks by the drug mafias in Michoacán intensified... Two federal police agents and a local policeman were wounded early Saturday when suspected members of the La Familia Michoacana drug cartel launched fragmentation grenades and opened fire at police headquarters in Uruapan… It was the eighth attack in four days…
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Meanwhile, unknown attackers launched grenades in Durango at police headquarters there… Shortly afterwards another similar attack occurred at the Durango state Attorney General’s Office…
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Eleven alleged hired gunmen for the Beltrán Leyva drug cartel were being interrogated after being arrested when Mexican Navy personnel raided a “narco-party” Friday in the Limoneros district in Cuernavaca and a gunfight broke out…
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The Washington Post reported that Mexican drug trafficking gangs have been siphoning off petroleum from Petróloes Mexicanos, as a new way of robbery amounting to over a billion dollars in the last two years… Many of the thefts are carried out by the Los Zetas’ hired gunmen’s group, who transport the oil into the United States and then sell it to large companies under investigation…
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The PRI Senate caucus will most certainly vote to ratify former Finance Secretary Agustín Carstens as new governor of the Bank of Mexico, said caucus leader Manlio Fabio Beltrones... The Senate vote to ratify Carstens is set for Tuesday afternoon…
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Representatives of the government and the labor and employers sectors will meet again to analyze minimum salary rates for 2010… Workers are seeking a 10-percent increase, but employers are proposing it be only 4.5 percent.
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The Mexico City government and local PRD deputies will conduct a survey among Metro users to discover whether they would agree with increasing the ticket price – currently at two pesos -- and what the percentage increase should be…
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A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Mexico, Hugo Valdemar, said the Catholic Church will not endorse gay marriages considering them immoral… This after Mexico City´s Legislative Assembly gave an initial go-ahead to a bill proposing same-sex marriage…
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