++ PRI deputies submitted a proposal to reduce the value added tax or IVA from 16 percent back to 15 percent. PRD deputies criticized PRI lawmakers because last year they approved the IVA being hiked and this year they want to reduce it again.
++ Family and friends held a wake and funeral in San Nicolás, Nuevo León, for the father and son killed by soldiers at a military checkpoint… Another five were wounded during this incident.
++ Chihuahua Governor José Reyes Baeza said abuses and use of excessive force by the Army or police corporations cannot go unpunished. PRD senators were set to file a motion to request information from National Defense Secretary Guillermo Galván about the military error.
++ Mexico City Attorney General Miguel Ángel Mancera said there was no information to back claims by Edgar Valdez Villarreal “La Barbie,” that José Jorge Balderas Garza, knows as “El JJ” or JJ, accused of shooting soccer player Salvador Cabañas, had left the country.
++ A federal judge ruled that Mexicana de Aviación airline could begin financially restructuring without having to declare bankruptcy… The firm now has one year to renegotiate with its debtors or be declared in bankruptcy. The Mexican Pilots Union staged a march at Los Pinos to demand that President Calderón intervene in the Mexicana de Aviación crisis.
++ After flying over areas in Tabasco affected by rains President Calderón said that even though rains in July and August were the heaviest ever, Villahermosa was safe, thanks to hydraulic works that were built after the devastating floods in 2007.
++ Hurricane Hermine swept through Tamaulipas affecting 115 districts and causing a blackout in most of Matamoros. Some 2,500 people sought refuge in shelters.
++ And in Veracruz 300,000 people were forced from their homes, 400 communities were flooded, 400 areas were stranded and 28,000 hectares of crops and pastures were damaged by rains and rivers flooding their banks.
++ A worker was killed and another 10 injured in an explosion and a fire that broke out in Pemex facilities in Cadereyta, Nuevo León.
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