++ Three women, two of them his sisters, went to the Morelos Attorney General’s Office to claim the body of Arturo Beltrán Leyva, alias "El Barbas." Beltrán Leyva, also known as the “Boss of bosses” was killed in a shootout on Wednesday between Navy troops and narcotics traffickers. The Morelos government called on the citizens of the state to keep calm and continue with their regular activities since police corporations are on alert… However, Cuernavaca hotels and restaurants began canceling Christmas and New Year’s events for fear they might be targeted in attacks. The chairman of the Security Committee at the Morelos Congress, Andrés González García, called for an investigation into local police and government officials to dig out possible links between the Sonora drug cartel and local authorities.
++ The mayor of San Pedro Garza, in Nuevo León, Mauricio Fernández, said that Arturo Beltrán Leyva’s death does not mean the end of the criminal organization he headed, since the cartel has spread out to other cities and communities.
++ Soldiers engaged in a shootout with hired gunmen and municipal police in Zuazua, Nuevo León… A drug lord known as "El Coreano," was killed… He headed Gulf cartel cells in Marín, Zuazua, Pesquería, Ciénega de Flores and Higueras… Another three hired gunmen from the cartel were killed as well as two policemen, who were also employed by criminals, acting as bodyguard and driver for the suspected leader of the Los Zetas. Authorities seized a list with names of policemen in Guadalupe and Juárez who were presumably getting paid between 3,500 and 7,000 pesos each month for offering protection to the drug traffickers.
++ The Public Office Secretariat punished the ABC Day Care center in Hermosillo with a five-year suspension from presenting projects and signing contracts with the government, as a sanction because of the fire in June that killed 49 young children and infants.
++ President Felipe Calderón said that one of the accords reached at the 15th United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen would be the approval of the so-called Green Fund.
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