Political Scandal continues…
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Senate speaker PRD politician Carlos Navarrete warned that extraneous forces should not be negotiating congressional votes since this is something only lawmakers should be involved in…
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Yet again, Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Montt, insisted he would not be stepping down and that he continues to be an able intermediary between the government and political parties…
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PRI leader Beatriz Paredes was present at the swearing-in of the PRI candidate in Durango, Jorge Herrera Caldera, and she denied that her party negotiated the economic package for electoral alliances and accused the PAN of muddying the issue…
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The PRD will file a complaint with the IFE against state and federal officials who served as negotiators between the PRI and the PAN in connection to elections in the State of Mexico and the fiscal package vote in Congress…
In other news… Eight more Mexicans still in Chile after the earthquake returned to Mexico on an Aeromexico flight…
What is there to celebrate? As Mexico marks International Women’s Day the National Human Rights Commission said that seven out of 10 women above 15 years have suffered violent aggressions and one out of three of them suffers abuse at the hands of her companion…
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PRI, PAN and PRD female deputies agreed that Mexican women have nothing to celebrate on International Women’s Day since discrimination continues and it is also true that there are no guarantees that labor and civil rights are respected…
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According to INEGI the female population is greater than the male population in Mexico with 96 men to every 100 women…
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First Lady Margarita Zavala started off the family walk on Reforma Avenue on Family Day …
Meanwhile, Health Secretary José Angel Córdova, guaranteed health services for families and individuals regardless of their social or economic situation, or sexual preference as is written in the Constitution…
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The Mexico City Civil Registry received up to last Friday 23 requests for same-sex marriages… On March 11 the Old Town Hall building will be the scene of the first five marriages between same-sex couples…
Sunday, March 07, 2010
Saturday, March 06, 2010
News Summary for March 6th, 2010
++ PAN national chairman César Nava said the agreement he reached with the PRI not to forge alliances with other parties in elections in the State of Mexico has no legal validity and he denied that that agreement also covered other states.
He said that although it is still to soon to say whether the PAN will seek an alliance to compete in the 2011 elections in the State of Mexico, his party is free to do as it pleases since the agreement reached with the PRI was cancelled.
++ PRD national leader Jesús Ortega said that when the time comes his party will ponder on the wisdom of forging an alliance with the PAN for the governor’s race in the State of Mexico, next year.
++ Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Mont justified the signing of an agreement between PAN leader César Nava and PRI president Beatriz Paredes to avoid campaign alliances in the State of Mexico in exchange for approving the fiscal package… Gómez Mont said that these kinds of negotiations between political actors are part of democracy…
Gómez Mont rejected criticism of his role in the negotiations, and said that President Felipe Calderón only was informed about the agreement in January.
Gómez Mont once again insisted he would not resign from his position, since he said, part of his powers are to take part in these kinds of agreements.
++ During the 81st anniversary of the PRI, party leader Beatriz Paredes lashed out against the alliances signed by the PRD and the PAN saying that those alliances undermine the party system.
++ President Felipe Calderón said that organized crime is the greatest threat in Mexico to human rights and exercising freedom of expression.
++ The Interior Secretariat rejected media reports on an “imminent earthquake” off the coasts of Guerrero.
++ Public Security secretary in Nuevo León, Carlos Jáuregui, was dismissed from his position… Luis CarlosTreviño Berchelmann was appointed to replace him… The Nuevo León government is seeking to recover citizens’ confidence in state police corps.
He said that although it is still to soon to say whether the PAN will seek an alliance to compete in the 2011 elections in the State of Mexico, his party is free to do as it pleases since the agreement reached with the PRI was cancelled.
++ PRD national leader Jesús Ortega said that when the time comes his party will ponder on the wisdom of forging an alliance with the PAN for the governor’s race in the State of Mexico, next year.
++ Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Mont justified the signing of an agreement between PAN leader César Nava and PRI president Beatriz Paredes to avoid campaign alliances in the State of Mexico in exchange for approving the fiscal package… Gómez Mont said that these kinds of negotiations between political actors are part of democracy…
Gómez Mont rejected criticism of his role in the negotiations, and said that President Felipe Calderón only was informed about the agreement in January.
Gómez Mont once again insisted he would not resign from his position, since he said, part of his powers are to take part in these kinds of agreements.
++ During the 81st anniversary of the PRI, party leader Beatriz Paredes lashed out against the alliances signed by the PRD and the PAN saying that those alliances undermine the party system.
++ President Felipe Calderón said that organized crime is the greatest threat in Mexico to human rights and exercising freedom of expression.
++ The Interior Secretariat rejected media reports on an “imminent earthquake” off the coasts of Guerrero.
++ Public Security secretary in Nuevo León, Carlos Jáuregui, was dismissed from his position… Luis CarlosTreviño Berchelmann was appointed to replace him… The Nuevo León government is seeking to recover citizens’ confidence in state police corps.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
News Summary for March 5th, 2010
++ The Energy Secretariat announced that in coming months the government will apply a gradual reduction of subsidies in the energy sector, that is to say in gasoline, diesel and LP gas.
++ PRD and PRI senators Graco Ramírez and Francisco Labastida, respectively, said that the announcement from the Energy Secretariat will block the country’s economic reactivation and will affect low-income families.
++ PAN senators asked PRI president, Beatriz Paredes, to show the letter in which PAN leader, César Nava, as well as Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Mont, supposedly had pledged not to run in an alliance against the PRI in the State of Mexico.
++ Reforms legalizing same sex marriages in the Federal District went into effect… More than 15 marriage requests were received from homosexual couples outside the Mexican capital.
++ The Supreme Court ruled that the national and local human rights commission lack attributions to challenge laws that violate international treaties signed by Mexico.
++ President Calderón said his administration seeks to improve health care and provide access to medical services for all citizens.
++ The National Water Commission said that the dry season is affecting one third of Mexico.
++ The Legionnaires of Christ admitted that the founder of their religious congregation, Marcial Maciel, had certain “hidden aspects” to his life that are scandalous.
++PAN national leader César Nava, admitted having signed together with PRI president Beatriz Paredes, an agreement stipulating there would be no alliance in the State of Mexico with other parties in exchange for PRI senators to vote in favor of the Federal Income Law that had been approved in the Chamber of Deputies...
++ PRD and PRI senators Graco Ramírez and Francisco Labastida, respectively, said that the announcement from the Energy Secretariat will block the country’s economic reactivation and will affect low-income families.
++ PAN senators asked PRI president, Beatriz Paredes, to show the letter in which PAN leader, César Nava, as well as Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Mont, supposedly had pledged not to run in an alliance against the PRI in the State of Mexico.
++ Reforms legalizing same sex marriages in the Federal District went into effect… More than 15 marriage requests were received from homosexual couples outside the Mexican capital.
++ The Supreme Court ruled that the national and local human rights commission lack attributions to challenge laws that violate international treaties signed by Mexico.
++ President Calderón said his administration seeks to improve health care and provide access to medical services for all citizens.
++ The National Water Commission said that the dry season is affecting one third of Mexico.
++ The Legionnaires of Christ admitted that the founder of their religious congregation, Marcial Maciel, had certain “hidden aspects” to his life that are scandalous.
++PAN national leader César Nava, admitted having signed together with PRI president Beatriz Paredes, an agreement stipulating there would be no alliance in the State of Mexico with other parties in exchange for PRI senators to vote in favor of the Federal Income Law that had been approved in the Chamber of Deputies...
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
News Summary for Mach 4th, 2010
++ Isabel Miranda de Wallace said she favored the death penalty for kidnappers who murder their victims, so she said she was opposed to the Anti-Kidnapping draft bill submitted by the president in which 40 years’ of prison are proposed for kidnappers who kill their victims. Miranda de Wallace called on Congress to fulfill the pledge made to approve by April 30 the General Law of Protection for Kidnapping Victims. Speaking at an anti-kidnapping meting, the chairman of the Public Security Committee at the Chamber of Deputies, José Luis Ovando, suggested setting up a fund to deal with kidnapping crimes.
++ The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency warned the U.S. Congress that if Washington abandons the battle against drug trafficking cartels in Mexico, this could lead to an even greater threat to national security in the United States.
++ A judge indicted the Bar Bar nightclub manager, Carlos Fernando Cázares Ocaña, "El Charly," on charges of attempted homicide as an accomplice, in the case of soccer player Salvador Cabañas, who was shot in the head while he was at the night spot. The main suspect in the case remains at large.
++ PAN national leader César Nava, described PRI governors as “caciques” or old-time political bosses… On a tour of Veracruz, he said that PRI governments in that state have left unfulfilled promises and misery…
++ Meanwhile, longtime PAN member, who had been in the party for 16 years, deputy Gerardo Buganza, announced his resignation from the party... Buganza sent a letter in which he expressed his irritation at the choice of Miguel Ángel Yunes as PAN candidate for governor of Veracruz… Yunes is a former member of the PRI.
++ At a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the launching of free textbooks in Mexican public schools, President Felipe Calderón acknowledged that the “great challenge facing Mexico” is quality education. On another topic, the president praised Mexicans for showing sympathy and raising funds to support for Chile, hit by an 8.8 Richter scale earthquake…
++ The Federal District government guaranteed that the amendment to the Civil Code allowing same sex marriages in Mexico City starting on March 4 will go ahead.
++ The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency warned the U.S. Congress that if Washington abandons the battle against drug trafficking cartels in Mexico, this could lead to an even greater threat to national security in the United States.
++ A judge indicted the Bar Bar nightclub manager, Carlos Fernando Cázares Ocaña, "El Charly," on charges of attempted homicide as an accomplice, in the case of soccer player Salvador Cabañas, who was shot in the head while he was at the night spot. The main suspect in the case remains at large.
++ PAN national leader César Nava, described PRI governors as “caciques” or old-time political bosses… On a tour of Veracruz, he said that PRI governments in that state have left unfulfilled promises and misery…
++ Meanwhile, longtime PAN member, who had been in the party for 16 years, deputy Gerardo Buganza, announced his resignation from the party... Buganza sent a letter in which he expressed his irritation at the choice of Miguel Ángel Yunes as PAN candidate for governor of Veracruz… Yunes is a former member of the PRI.
++ At a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the launching of free textbooks in Mexican public schools, President Felipe Calderón acknowledged that the “great challenge facing Mexico” is quality education. On another topic, the president praised Mexicans for showing sympathy and raising funds to support for Chile, hit by an 8.8 Richter scale earthquake…
++ The Federal District government guaranteed that the amendment to the Civil Code allowing same sex marriages in Mexico City starting on March 4 will go ahead.
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
News Summary for March 3rd, 2010
++ The full Chamber of Deputies denied a four-month leave of absence requested by César Nava, who intended, as national PAN leader, to focus his efforts entirely on the party and the political campaigns.
The permit was set to end on July 5, the day after general elections in 12 of the country’s states.
Nava said that refusing to grant him a leave of absence was an indication that the PRI is concerned it could lose in some states because of the alliances forged by the PAN in some states.
++ National Defense Secretary General Guillermo Galván urged PRI senators to provide the Mexican Army with a modern and effective legal framework to be able to satisfy its duties in the battle against organized crime.
++ The U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Carlos Pascual, said that his government backs Mexican authorities in their fight against violence in Ciudad Juárez.
++ U.S. State Department spokeswoman Virginia Staab said that the U.S. General Consulate in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, stayed open despite a bomb threat.
++ Senate speaker Carlos Navarrete said that Congress must legislate with regard to day care centers to ensure full legality to the system of associate day care centers through an agreement between the federal government and the Mexican Social Security Institute itself.
++ Speaking in Cancún, Quintana Roo, President Felipe Calderón said that after the effects of the economic crisis and the AH1N1 influenza outbreak, the tourism industry is recovering.
++ Chilean President Michellet Bachelet said that the number of people killed in the 8.8 Richter scale earthquake is 795.
++ The Foreign Affairs Secretariat announced that an Aeroméxico airplane will travel to Chile to bring back a group of Mexican intellectuals and publishers who asked to return to Mexico after the earthquake.
Kidnapping in Mexico? Tonight on Seguridad Total
How has kidnappinig changed in Mexico? Tonight on Seguridad Total TV we will review these new trends taking to experts and politicians. Seguridad Total TV broadcasts Tuesday March 2d, at 23:30 hrs (central time) on Channel 40 (if you live in the Mexico City urban area) SKY and Cablevision 140 (for local cable channels click here.)This is the original report we did on Kidnapping in Mexico.
Secuestros en México: Hoy, martes en Seguridad Total...
¿Como ha cambiado el delito del Secuestro en México? Hoy, martes en Seguridad Total le daremos seguimiento a un reportaje que hicimos en Seguridad Total, donde reseñamos como ha ido cambiando el "modus operandi" de los secuestradores. Los espero en Proyecto 40 (Sky y Cablevision 140) Para canales de cable local que transmiten Seguridad Total hacer click aquí. Aqui les presento el reportaje original que presentamos sobre el tema. Puede usted encontar este y más de 40 reportajes de Seguridad Total en nuestro Canal de Youtube.
Monday, March 01, 2010
News Summary for March 2d, 2010
++ The Mexican Embassy in Chile said that 30 Mexican students who were in the city of Concepción at the time of the 8.8 earthquake that hit Chile last Saturday, are safe, although some of them have been unable to contact their families.
++ The fire at the ABC day care center that claimed the lives of 49 infants and young children was caused by a short circuit, said the Supreme Court Investigative Commission… The Commission said there were grave human rights violations in the case, and pointed specifically to 19 officials from the three levels of government including the former director of the Mexican Social Security Institute, Juan Molinar Horcasitas, and former Sonora governor, Eduardo Bours.
++ The Mexican Red Cross condemned the murder of María Genoveva Rogers Lozoya, a volunteer in Culiacán, Sinaloa, who was killed when an armed commando shot an individual who was seeking medical attention at a clinic. In response to this murder, the Red Cross is no longer providing emergency services in Culiacan.
++ President Felipe Calderón said that by the end of his six-year term the East Tunel Channel operation will begin to operate as a safety mechanism to avoid catastrophic floods. Nearly a month after sewage water floods caused by the flooding over of the los Remedios sewer, more than 2,000 families have not received any relief from the federal government, and another roughly 2,000 families failed to be included in the lists of people who need help, said the mayor of Nezahualcóyotl, Edgar Navarro.
++ The fire at the ABC day care center that claimed the lives of 49 infants and young children was caused by a short circuit, said the Supreme Court Investigative Commission… The Commission said there were grave human rights violations in the case, and pointed specifically to 19 officials from the three levels of government including the former director of the Mexican Social Security Institute, Juan Molinar Horcasitas, and former Sonora governor, Eduardo Bours.
++ The Mexican Red Cross condemned the murder of María Genoveva Rogers Lozoya, a volunteer in Culiacán, Sinaloa, who was killed when an armed commando shot an individual who was seeking medical attention at a clinic. In response to this murder, the Red Cross is no longer providing emergency services in Culiacan.
++ President Felipe Calderón said that by the end of his six-year term the East Tunel Channel operation will begin to operate as a safety mechanism to avoid catastrophic floods. Nearly a month after sewage water floods caused by the flooding over of the los Remedios sewer, more than 2,000 families have not received any relief from the federal government, and another roughly 2,000 families failed to be included in the lists of people who need help, said the mayor of Nezahualcóyotl, Edgar Navarro.
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