Bloody Thursday...
++ Gunmen killed the Deputy for Internal Affairs at the Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office Sandra Ivonne Salas and one of her bodyguards Omar Contreras, in Ciudad Juárez. Another bodyguard was wounded in the attack. Chihuahua Governor José Reyes Baeza called on citizens to go to the polls this Sunday and vote in tranquility since there were sufficient security conditions in the state to guarantee a pacific process.
Also on Thursday there was a shoot-out in Tubutama, Sonora bwtween drugtraffickers and “polleros” where 21 where killed, according to the Attorney General´s Office for the State of Sonora.
++ Tamaulipas Governor Eugenio Hernández said that initial evidence pointed to organized criminals as the culprits in the murder of Rodolfo Torre and another four persons, although a politically motivated assassination had not yet been ruled out.
++ Veracruz Governor Fidel Herrera requested an Amparo (temporary restraining order) in order to face potential lawsuits connected to phone tapings that were leaked to the press in which he is heard in compromising telephone conversations that allegedly involve interfering in election campaigns and supposedly ordering that public funds be illegally channeled to PRI candidates.
++ A federal judge in Phoenix authorized the Mexican government to present arguments against an anti-immigration law in Arizona after accepting the petition filed as Amicus Brief - “Friend of the Court” to support a lawsuit seeking to have the measures revoked.
++ Nine members of the United Peoples Front to Defend Land left the Molino de las Flores prison in the State of Mexico after the Supreme Court ordered their release… The court ordered the liberation of 12 inmates, among them front leader Ignacio del Valle who was still being held in the Altiplano prison.
The Public Security Secretariat said that the remaining three front members, Ignacio del Valle and Héctor Galindo Gochicoa and Felipe Álvarez Hernández, would remain behind bars at the Altiplano penitentiary for robbery, injuries, and damaging public property and communications systems. However, later in the evening lower court judges released the remaining front members including Ignacio del Valle.
++ The Supreme Court is to discuss the theme of the legality of same-sex couple adoptions when justices return from vacation on August 3.
++ The Federal District Attorney General’s Office decried the poor planning behind the failed rescue operation last year, on July 3, 2009, in which Yolanda Ceballos Coppel and another three people were killed.
++ Hurricane Alex, after being downgraded to a tropical storm, caused damages to schools and highways, increased river water levels and left thousands of people in shelters with electricity blackouts and communications cuts in Tamaulipas, Nuevo León and Coahuila.
++President Felipe Calderón said that 513,000 news jobs were created in the first half of 2010.
1 comments:
Ms. Salazar! Tsk-tsk! The controversial law in Arizona is decidedly NOT an "anti-immigration law." It is a law designed to discourage and lightly punish (max jail time of 30 days) entering the United States illegally via Arizona. It is an anti-crime law.
People now, as always, can immigrate into the United States. They simply have to fulfill the legal requirements.
You have to fulfill legal requirements to immigrate into Mexico too. No different.
Mexico deports foreigners caught here with no papers. Would you describe that as "anti-immigration"? No, you would call it what it is: Kicking law-breakers out of the country.
Be fair. Be even-handed in your reports.
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