++ Unknown attackers killed Edgar Enrique Bayardo, a former top level official with the Federal Police and a witness in the Attorney General’s Office witness protection program, He was providing information in police corruption scandal in 2008. (Comment: This is the second witness in the PGR´s witness protection program that has been murdered in the last couple of weeks. A bodyguard and a by-stander were also wounded. This was a brazen attack in a Café..Public, shoot outs such as these were rare in Mexico City...)
++ Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Mont, said that criminal organizations and the drug cartels are trying to influence politics through illicit financing. (Comment: Is this news?)
++ PRD politician Clara Brugada called on the Federal District Legislative Assembly to remove Rafael Acosta as borough chief in Iztapalapa. Rafael Acosta "Juanito," borough chief in Iztapalapa, appointed PAN politician Alejandra Núñez as head of Judicial and Government affairs in the borough. The PAN refused to ask Rafael Acosta, “Juanito,” to join the party, since his membership would be seen as detrimental. (Comment: Can this political soap opera get any better?)
++ The Senate elected Luis María Aguilar and Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea as new Supreme Court justices taking over from Mariano Azuela Güitrón and Genaro Góngora Pimentel, who recently retired.
++ The Mexican Stock Exchange rose 2.56 percent to reach its highest level since May 30 2008.
++ The Mexican Electricians Union warned that on Friday thousands of former Luz y Fuerza del Centro workers will arrive in Mexico City to take over large avenues leading to the Zócalo, the Federal Labor Board and Revolution Monument. (Comment: Yikees!! Between the enraged electricians and the crazy holiday shopping, the best advice is to stay away from downtown Mexico City on Friday.)
++ The Health Secretariat announced that over the next week another 400,000 A H1N1 vaccines doses will arrive in Mexico.
++ The mother of “Subcommander Marcos” María del Socorro Vicente González, died of a heart attack when she was at the Mexico City Airport.
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