News Summary for November 9th, 2010

++ “0rganized crime has created a communication strategy that seeks to paralyze the government” according to President Felipe Calderón who called on news organizations to reach an agreement with the authorities on a joint approach to face the common enemy. During a speech to inaugurate the General Assembly of the Inter American Press Association, in Mérida, Yucatán, Calderón said that his government would not allow a collusion between crime and politics.

++ The federal police arrested and presented Manuel Fernández Valencia, alias “La Puerca,” or “The Sow,” an alleged associate of Sinaloa drug cartel chief Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán… He was arrested in Culiacán, where he was allegedly preparing a eight-ton marihuana shipment to be sent to the United States in December.

++ Schools, police departments and other institutions in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, received bomb threats that sewed fear among citizens in the wake of last Friday’s operation by the Mexican Navy in which a Gulf cartel leader, Ezequiel Cárdenas Guillén, alias “Tony Tormenta,” was killed. National Security spokesman Alejandro Poiré warned that the death of "Tony Tormenta" would create instability in criminal organizations.

++ UNAM dean José Narro suggested that Mexico needs a comprehensive program combining using public forces while also promoting social development to eliminate inequality to resolve insecurity, violence and organized crime.

++ Two housewives are set to lead the community land organizations or ejidos in El Vergel and Villa de Luz, in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, since the positions were rejected by male farmers because of the violence and insecurity rocking the region.

++ The chairman of the ruling board at the Chamber of Deputies, Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín, said the 2011 expenditures budget could be approved during this Thursday’s session.

++ The World Bank said that Mexico was in position number three in the list of countries that receive most remittances from migrants abroad, receiving 22.6 billion dollars in late 2010… India topped the list, with 55 billion dollars and second place was occupied by China, which received 51 billion dollars.