++ President Felipe Calderón said unity is crucial to Mexico’s prosperity… During his message to the nation in the fourth year of his administration Calderón called on all political forces in Mexico to come to agreement about the solutions the country needs. Calderón said that it was possible to create a State security policy that gathered the efforts of everyone to put a definite end to crime. Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora said that it was “a time of unity” to overcome the country’s security crisis and move forward.
++ State of Mexico Governor Enrique Peña Nieto said his administration was joining the president’s call for unity. But Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said President Calderón failed to admit that Mexico has not progressed with regard to economic or social issues.
++ Mexican Army troops and hired gunmen engaged in a shootout near two towns on the border between Nuevo León and Tamaulipas… Twenty-five people were killed, three soldiers were wounded and three hostages freed.
++ A federal state public prosecutor was set to decide on Saturday on the legal situation of arrested drug suspect “La Barbie.” He could be placed under temporary arrest, sent to a maximum security prison or handed over to U.S. authorities to face drug trafficking charges there.
++ Ecuadorean television channel Gamma TV broadcast live footage of the Ecuadorean migrant who survived the massacre in San Fernando, Tamaulipas… The survivor asked his fellow Ecuadoreans not to travel to the United States because the Los Zetas gang is on a murderous rampage.
++ Mexicana de Aviación land employees marched through Terminal 1 at the Mexico City International Airport to demand a quick solution to the crisis the airline is going through.
++ Because of the violence gripping Tamaulipas, municipal authorities in San Fernando, Miguel Alemán and Hidalgo, suspended Independence festivities, the “Independence shout” or Grito, on the night of September 15th.
++ Heavy floods and rising rivers in Tabasco forced 109,408 people from their homes. Meanwhile, in Oaxaca, schools were shut down leaving 19,000 children at home, and 40 communities were stranded as more than 60,000 people were forced from their homes because of the rains.
++ On a sad note -- sardonic, perceptive and witty writer, dramatist and columnist Germán Dehesa died at age 66 in his home in Mexico City.
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