++ The Attorney General’s Office confirmed that there was another survivor from the massacre of 72 migrants in the town of San Fernando in Tamaulipas. The Navy discovered the bodies on August 24. In a press release the Attorney General’s Office said the other survivor aside from an Ecuadorean citizen who told authorities about the massacre, was a Honduran migrant who managed to escape from the Los Zetas drug trafficking ring. The statement confirming another survivor came hours after Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa had announced it. The Federal District Superior Court said that the bodies of 56 migrants murdered and discovered on August 24 were taken to the Mexico City Forensics Service.
++ The Mexico City Attorney General’s Office said it would interrogate Edgar Valdez Villarreal, known as "La Barbie," about his relationship with José Jorge Balderas Treviño, alias “El JJ,” who shot at soccer player Salvador Cabañas.
++ Public Security Secretary Genaro García Luna said it was regrettable that some critics are saying the arrest of Edgar Valdez Villarreal, “La Barbie,” was politically motivated.
++ Navy Secretary Francisco Saynez Mendoza, said Mexico was seeing terrorist actions from organized criminal groups who seek to intimidate society… However he rejected the notion that Mexico was harboring international terrorist groups seeking to destabilize the country.
++ Deputies and senators took part in the opening session of Congress in the second year of the 61st Legislature… Later, Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora submitted President Felipe Calderón’s Fourth Report on the State of the Nation.
++ Calderón said in his report that from September 1, 2009 to August 19, authorities arrested 34,515 people who were suspected of being linked to narcotics traffickers.
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