The Federal District Legislative Assembly approved legalization of same sex marriage as well as the right to adopt children. Passage of the law upset conservative PAN legislators who pledged to file a complaint before the Supreme Court alleging the bill is unconstitutional. Gay groups present at the assembly hailed passage of the law which some PRD legislators claimed made Mexico City into the first city in Latin America to approve same-sex marriage.
++ Four family members of the navy special forces officer who was killed during the operation against Arturo Beltrán Leyva, were murdered. Among those killed includes Melquisedec Angulo Córdova mother and sister. Two other family members were injured and have been hospitalized. These murders took place at the home of the murdered marine, at Quintín Arauz, in the state of Tabasco, were he was buried yesterday.
++ Speaking in Morelia, Michoacán, President Felipe Calderón lashed out at violent events that shook the state in recent days and which led to the death of a young girl, Anahí, killed in a grenade explosion… Calderón called criminals cowardly who could do such a thing.
++ A federal judge ordered temporary detainment of two people arrested in Cuernavaca, Morelos after a shootout last Wednesday in which drug lord Arturo Beltrán Levya was killed… They are under investigation on charges of racketeering, drug trafficking and illegal arms possession… A suspect, Narciso Merino Rafael, is believed to be a cocaine pusher in Guerrero and he was operating as Beltrán Leyva’s bodyguard on the day of the shootout…
++ The mayor’s office announced that 11 municipal policemen in Guadalupe, Nuevo León, whose names appeared on a so-called drug-payroll found on Friday after a clash between “Zetas” hired gunmen and the Mexican army, were suspended indefinitely.
++ Senate PRI caucus leader, Manlio Fabio Beltrones, called on President Felipe Calderón not to be content with only submitting political reform proposals, but to go further and present proposals on fiscal and labor reform.
++ The Health Secretariat warned that the following eight weeks could be the toughest when it comes to the A H1N1 influenza outbreak, since forecasters are predicting cold weather… Since the outbreak began, 794 people have died from A H1N1 influenza in Mexico.
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