Better late then never... Here is the summary for July 7th, 2010

++ Nuevo León Governor Rodrigo Medina estimated damages left by tropical storm Alex at more than 10 billion pesos… He said electricity was almost completely back to normal in Monterrey. More than 18,000 people in Anáhuac, Nuevo León, were evacuated from their homes fearing there could be a flood… The town lies next to the Venustiano Carranza damn that went over its maximum capacity because of rainfall from hurricane Alex… The Interior Secretariat declared a natural disaster in 21 towns in Nuevo León so as to release emergency funds to deal with relief efforts there.

++ In Coahuila, authorities were considering evacuating 600 families which live next to the Río Grande in Piedras Negras, because the level of the river was rising dramatically. The Education and Culture Secretariat announced classes were over at the primary and secondary level in the central, wooded and northern area because of the swathe of destruction left by Alex in 14 municipalities in that state.

++ President Felipe Calderón said the way Mexicans turned out to vote on Sunday was a message to reject crime and violence. Speaking in Veracruz, PRI leader Beatriz Paredes said there would be no negotiations with regard to the triumph of the PRI candidate in that state… His triumph she said, is non-negotiable. PAN candidate for governor in Veracruz, former PRI politician Miguel Ángel Yunes, said that if the PRI won’t accept opening the election packages, he would challenge the polls at the local and federal electoral tribunals.

++ Special National Executive Committee delegate Javier Corral, called on PAN members to continue with alliances and so defeat PRI politician Enrique Peña Nieto in elections next year in the State of Mexico. Manuel Camacho Solís, a spokesman for the leftist front Dialogue for the Reconstruction of Mexico, said coalition wins in Oaxaca, Puebla and Sinaloa destroyed the PRI projection that these elections would practically mark its return to Los Pinos.

++ Unknown gunmen murdered journalist Hugo Alfredo Olivera Cartas, a correspondent in Apatzingán for the La Voz de Michoacán newspaper.