++ President Felipe Calderón called on governors and mayors to put an end to waste of public funds and stop presenting misleading reports on how they spend money.
++ José Ángel Gurría, secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, underscored the need to carry out in depth fiscal reform to be able to generate the funds Mexico needs to grow.
++ PAN national chairman César Nava blamed the PRI for inflation sparked by gasoline rate hikes and increases to the value added tax and the income tax… Nava said hikes to fuels were the result of an agreement among political parties.
++ Senate speaker Carlos Navarrete called on the president to freeze fuel rates by next Wednesday, or he said, Congress will act to freeze rates through a decree…
++ The Mexican Stock Exchange increased 0.71 percent on business day four this year. The IPC stock index reached a new all-time high at 33,064.57 points.
++ Federal Public Security agents arrested Manuel Alejandro Briones Rodríguez, known as “El Chaparrito” or “The Little Short One,” and who could be a lieutenant in Morelos for Arturo Beltrán Leyva… The arrest took place on January 4 in Mexico City. Until June 2009, Briones Rodríguez was a member of the now defunct Public Security Secretariat in Cuernavaca, Morelos.
++ Cold front number 22 was spreading over a great chunk of Mexico, mainly affecting eight states where temperatures plunged. In addition to Chihuahua and Durango, the states where temperatures fell drastically are Zacatecas, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Sonora, San Luis Potosí, the hills of Veracruz and parts of Oaxaca. Classes were not cancelled in Mexico City, but kids in Hidalgo, Zacatecas, Michoacan and Veracruz get to stay home and return to school till next Monday
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