++ President Felipe Calderón presented a 10-point proposal for political reform in Mexico. Among the suggestions are a second round of voting in a presidential election in case the winner fails to obtain at least 51 percent of the vote, cutting back on the number of lawmakers in both houses, as well as the referendum system to address issues Congress fails to resolve. The private sector applauded Calderón’s proposals… Concamin said that reelection of legislators is the solution for there to be accountability in Congress… Join me at 5:30 am on Imagen News. We will analyze these proposals with Sergio Sarmiento and Senator Eloy Cantú.
++ The Senate ratified Agustín Carstens as new governor of the Bank of Mexico as of January 1, 2010.
++ The Chamber of Deputies elected Juan Manuel Portal Martínez as new Auditor-General of the Federation from 2010-2017.
++ Senator René Arce resigned from the PRD after 20 years… He said that he and Ruth Zavaleta, who also quit not long ago, will create a political group as they seek to form another party.
++ The Mexican Electricians Union and the Interior Secretariat renewed talks to analyze a Christmas bonus and a savings fund for 44,000 former Luz y Fuerza del Centro workers.
++ The U.S. government delivered five Bell-412 helicopters to Mexico as part of the Mérida Initiative to fight drug trafficking…
++ The wave of attacks continued in Michoacán… Suspected narcotics traffickers lobbed two fragmentation grenades in front of a school in Morelia, near the government building… Only one of the devices exploded and nobody was hurt… Hours later another two grenades were detonated at a citizen’s attention center… Three people were wounded in that attack…
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