++ Gunmen shot and killed retired general Arturo Esparza, new head of security in García, Nuevo León, just five days after he took office.
++ The Interior Secretariat’s final report on the accident involving a Learjet 45 last year ago that killed then interior secretary Juan Camilo Mouriño, blamed air turbulence and errors on the part of pilots for the accident… However, the airplane’s logs show the crew had experience…
++ The Labor Secretariat reported that 45 percent of 44,000 active workers fired from the power utility company Luz y Fuerza del Centro have cashed in their severance payments.
++ The PAN caucus at the Chamber of Deputies presented a draft bill for a new kidnapping law that would obligate collaboration between the three levels of government in kidnapping cases.
++ The Supreme Court, saying the Attorney General’s Office fabricated evidence and witness testimonies, ordered the liberation of yet another nine native Indians sentenced in the Acteal, Chiapas massacre in December 1997.
++ Two rivers in Veracruz, the Aguadulcita and Uxpanapa rivers, flooded over, forcing 5,000 people from their homes… The army set the DN3 emergency plan going and Pemex evacuated the General Hospital located in Agua Dulce.
++ Three men were killed in Tabasco swept away by currents of water after steady rains in Huimanguillo, where the heavy rains stranded 20,000 people.
++ The Interior Secretariat declared Ecatepec, in the State of Mexico, a disaster Zone after last Friday’s powerful rainstorm that killed five people and damaged 500 homes.
++ The Mexico City Attorney General’s Office discovered a hospital in Venustiano Carranza borough where newborns were being sold… Six people were arrested, among them three physicians.
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
News Summary for November 4th, 2009
++ PAN national leader César Nava said his party will not evade its responsibility to approve new taxes and pledged to work towards an in-depth fiscal reform. PRD head Jesús Ortega, demanded of the PRI and the PAN that they face citizens and recognize that they approved increases to taxes.
++ Communications and Transportation authorities confirmed that air turbulence that struck the plane in which former Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mouriño and former drug czar José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos was what caused the Lear jet they were traveling in to crash a year ago. Both men were killed in the accident as were several other passengers and the crew. The Communications and Transportation Secretariat also said that the investigation found that the pilots were poorly trained and that air controllers had a heavy work load.
++ The U.S. government in coordination with Mexican authorities is developing an all encompassing border strategy to fight organized crime in the next 11 months.
++ Nine mayors in the Nuevo León metropolitan zone launched a joint effort to keep organized crime from infiltrating government offices.
++ Heavy rains in Tabasco caused two rivers to flood over forcing 44,000 people from their homes… The Interior Secretariat declared an emergency in the area. Gustavo A. Madero borough chief Víctor Hugo Lobo said that 7,000 children at schools in Cuautepec flooded by Friday’s deluge in Mexico City and the State of Mexico resumed classes.
++ Communications and Transportation authorities confirmed that air turbulence that struck the plane in which former Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mouriño and former drug czar José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos was what caused the Lear jet they were traveling in to crash a year ago. Both men were killed in the accident as were several other passengers and the crew. The Communications and Transportation Secretariat also said that the investigation found that the pilots were poorly trained and that air controllers had a heavy work load.
++ The U.S. government in coordination with Mexican authorities is developing an all encompassing border strategy to fight organized crime in the next 11 months.
++ Nine mayors in the Nuevo León metropolitan zone launched a joint effort to keep organized crime from infiltrating government offices.
++ Heavy rains in Tabasco caused two rivers to flood over forcing 44,000 people from their homes… The Interior Secretariat declared an emergency in the area. Gustavo A. Madero borough chief Víctor Hugo Lobo said that 7,000 children at schools in Cuautepec flooded by Friday’s deluge in Mexico City and the State of Mexico resumed classes.
Last Calaverita for this Season...
The last calaverita for this season... Sent by Angel Romero...
Her last summary Ana wroteit appears online todaywe're being told with a footnotethat she rests in peace awayA thin lady came alonglooking for our dear Slackdid you know that we no morewill have her advices back?Now the show couldn't go onnor the news were on the airWhat a shame! It seems unfairshe has left us just her bones!How Ana Maria could have knownif Calaca wore a maskand I bet she couldn't askwhat more else was near to comeIn the graveyard when it's coldit is said Anita criesif she only would have been toldthat La Flaca...living in Mexico was...
Thanks Angel!!!
Her last summary Ana wroteit appears online todaywe're being told with a footnotethat she rests in peace awayA thin lady came alonglooking for our dear Slackdid you know that we no morewill have her advices back?Now the show couldn't go onnor the news were on the airWhat a shame! It seems unfairshe has left us just her bones!How Ana Maria could have knownif Calaca wore a maskand I bet she couldn't askwhat more else was near to comeIn the graveyard when it's coldit is said Anita criesif she only would have been toldthat La Flaca...living in Mexico was...
Thanks Angel!!!
Monday, November 02, 2009
News Summary for November 3rd, 2009
++ PRD and PRI senators said the Senate will abide by the changes made by deputies to the Income Law over the weekend since there is a November 15 deadline for the approval of the budget bill. However, they said they were not satisfied with what they described as the approval of “not the best” revenue package.
++ Meanwhile The Private Sector Center For Economic Studies, the CEESP, suggested reducing by 200 the number of deputies and also removing 64 senators… Such changes would spark savings in the order of 127 million pesos on average each year, the center said.
++ Head of the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) Martín Esparza Flores said the union would file two constitutional controversies with the Supreme Court to try to push back the presidential decree that liquidated Power Utility Co. Luz y Fuerza del Centro. The SME also announced that on November 11th, one month after the closing down of Luz y Fuerza del Centro, they will be taking over the companies installations.
++ The Attorney General’s Office took on an investigation into the murder of Héctor Saldaña Perales, alias “El Negro,” and who allegedly headed the Beltrán Leyva brothers’ drug cartel in Monterrey, Nuevo León. The Attorney General’s Office will also be probing the killings of 15 people in Cajeme, Sonora, among them Margarito Montes Parra, head of the General Workers, Peasants and Popular Union.
++ The town of Ecatepec, in the State of Mexico called for the entire area of Guadalupe hill to be declared a disaster zone after more than 520 homes were damaged and thousands of people left homeless after Friday’s heavy rainstorm. And Tultitlán and Coacalco, also in the State of Mexico and which were also affected by the storm, criticized the government for not sending federal aid despite the high numbers of people stranded by the storm.
++ Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said 15 million pesos will go for aid to overcome the emergency in Gustavo A. Madero borough, where the rainstorm damaged 900 homes… Ebrard said another 45 million pesos will be allotted to repair roadways, schools and hospitals…
++ Meanwhile The Private Sector Center For Economic Studies, the CEESP, suggested reducing by 200 the number of deputies and also removing 64 senators… Such changes would spark savings in the order of 127 million pesos on average each year, the center said.
++ Head of the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) Martín Esparza Flores said the union would file two constitutional controversies with the Supreme Court to try to push back the presidential decree that liquidated Power Utility Co. Luz y Fuerza del Centro. The SME also announced that on November 11th, one month after the closing down of Luz y Fuerza del Centro, they will be taking over the companies installations.
++ The Attorney General’s Office took on an investigation into the murder of Héctor Saldaña Perales, alias “El Negro,” and who allegedly headed the Beltrán Leyva brothers’ drug cartel in Monterrey, Nuevo León. The Attorney General’s Office will also be probing the killings of 15 people in Cajeme, Sonora, among them Margarito Montes Parra, head of the General Workers, Peasants and Popular Union.
++ The town of Ecatepec, in the State of Mexico called for the entire area of Guadalupe hill to be declared a disaster zone after more than 520 homes were damaged and thousands of people left homeless after Friday’s heavy rainstorm. And Tultitlán and Coacalco, also in the State of Mexico and which were also affected by the storm, criticized the government for not sending federal aid despite the high numbers of people stranded by the storm.
++ Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said 15 million pesos will go for aid to overcome the emergency in Gustavo A. Madero borough, where the rainstorm damaged 900 homes… Ebrard said another 45 million pesos will be allotted to repair roadways, schools and hospitals…
Calaverita for Ana Maria Salazar ...
For the "Dia del Muerto" or day of the dearly departed, poems called CALAVERITAS are very popular,.... This one was written up by one of my Facebook buddies...
ANA MA. POR LA CALLE VA CUANDO DE REPENTE LA HUESUDA SE LA QUIERE LLEVAR,
PERO ANA MA. APLICANDO DEFENSA PERSONAL A LA MUERTE LOGRA INMOVILIZAR.
ME RINDO GRITA LA CALACA, Y LLORANDO SE VA ALEJANDO Y CAVILANDO DICE NO HAY DE OTRA DEFENSA PERSNAL AHI QUE TOMAR.
Por Maria Isabe Nuñez Peralta El 03 de noviembre a las 5:47
Sunday, November 01, 2009
News Summary for November 2d, 2009
The Chamber of Deputies approved the 2010 revenue packet that aims to raise three trillion pesos…
* Deputies ratified an increase in the value added tax to 16 percent, an increase to the income tax to 30 percent on income greater than 10,300 pesos monthly and an increase from two to three percent on the IDE tax, or tax on cash deposits of over 15,000 pesos a month, not the current 20,000 pesos…
* Deputies stopped short of taxing communications companies, cellular phones and cigarettes, so the reforms will be once again be sent to the Senate…
* Lawmakers will renew sessions on Wednesday and the next item on the agenda is the spending budget for 2010…
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The Labor Board was unable to declare an end of labor relations between workers at power utility Luz y Fuerza del Centro, since a federal judge accepted a protection writ or amparo filed by the Mexican Electricians Union… The board recognized the Mexican Electricians Union as a legal entity still able to negotiate on behalf of its members… SME announced that starting on Thursday the union will launch massive protests in 14 states…
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Heavy rainstorms in Mexico City and environs on Friday left a deadly toll… Six people were killed in Ecatepec and three in Tultitlán; 14 people were injured and three more were reported as disappeared… Four thousand homes were damaged as well as 120 vehicles…
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In other news, four bodies, victims of a massacre, were found in Mexico City’s Miguel Hidalgo borough… The bodies were inside a car with Nuevo León license plates… One of the victims appeared to be Héctor Saldaña, alias "El Negro," who allegedly heads the Beltrán Leyva drug cartel’s operations in Nuevo León.
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Armed commandos attacked two federal police precincts and a state police command centre on the coast of Guerrero… No one was wounded in the attacks that caused only damage to facilities and vehicles…
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The Attorney General’s Office will take on the case of the massacre in Cajeme, Sonora, last Friday in which 15 people were shot and killed, among them Margarito Montes Parra, leader of the General Workers, Peasants and Popular Union.
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Banks and the Mexican Stock Exchange will be closed because of the Day of the Dead… The U.S. Embassy and consulates also close for the holiday…
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* Deputies ratified an increase in the value added tax to 16 percent, an increase to the income tax to 30 percent on income greater than 10,300 pesos monthly and an increase from two to three percent on the IDE tax, or tax on cash deposits of over 15,000 pesos a month, not the current 20,000 pesos…
* Deputies stopped short of taxing communications companies, cellular phones and cigarettes, so the reforms will be once again be sent to the Senate…
* Lawmakers will renew sessions on Wednesday and the next item on the agenda is the spending budget for 2010…
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The Labor Board was unable to declare an end of labor relations between workers at power utility Luz y Fuerza del Centro, since a federal judge accepted a protection writ or amparo filed by the Mexican Electricians Union… The board recognized the Mexican Electricians Union as a legal entity still able to negotiate on behalf of its members… SME announced that starting on Thursday the union will launch massive protests in 14 states…
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Heavy rainstorms in Mexico City and environs on Friday left a deadly toll… Six people were killed in Ecatepec and three in Tultitlán; 14 people were injured and three more were reported as disappeared… Four thousand homes were damaged as well as 120 vehicles…
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In other news, four bodies, victims of a massacre, were found in Mexico City’s Miguel Hidalgo borough… The bodies were inside a car with Nuevo León license plates… One of the victims appeared to be Héctor Saldaña, alias "El Negro," who allegedly heads the Beltrán Leyva drug cartel’s operations in Nuevo León.
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Armed commandos attacked two federal police precincts and a state police command centre on the coast of Guerrero… No one was wounded in the attacks that caused only damage to facilities and vehicles…
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The Attorney General’s Office will take on the case of the massacre in Cajeme, Sonora, last Friday in which 15 people were shot and killed, among them Margarito Montes Parra, leader of the General Workers, Peasants and Popular Union.
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Banks and the Mexican Stock Exchange will be closed because of the Day of the Dead… The U.S. Embassy and consulates also close for the holiday…
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