++ Sonora governor Guillermo Padrés acknowledged that dismissing state Attorney General Abel Murrieta Gutiérrez was being considered following a request from parents of children who were killed in the ABC day care center fire in Hermosillo, on June 5, 2009. Padrés said the matter was discussed last Wednesday at a meeting between victims’ parents and President Felipe Calderón.
++ Mexico United Against Crime called on state and federal lawmakers to approve law reform bills to be submitted by the executive branch to create 32 local police corps under a single command.
++ Leaders of the Everyone for Quintana Roo political alliance announced they would not withdraw propaganda featuring Gregorio Sánchez even though the local Electoral Institute ordered them to… The alliance said it would appeal the decision to strip Sánchez of his candidacy. The PRD charged that accusations against Gregorio Sánchez are part of a political scheme between the Quintana Roo government and the Attorney General’s Office to prevent Gregorio Sánchez from winning polls set for July 4.
++ Education Secretary Alonso Lujambio called members of the National Teachers Coordinating Group, or CNTE, a dissident group, vandals after they battered an antique door, making large holes in it, at Education Secretariat facilities in downtown Mexico City. Lujambio said it was a pity that a minority of vandals should have chosen to pressure authorities by destroying cultural assets that belong to all Mexicans. He also accused the Mexico City police of being irresponsible, because they failed to take action to stop the protesters from damaging the door. Federal District Governance Secretary José Ángel Ávila said city authorities did not take action to protect SEP facilities because the federal police was already there and because a dialogue proposal had been set up with the CNTE.
++ For the second time this week, the Metropolitan Environmental Committee decreed an early pollution emergency phase in the Metropolitan Zone kicked off by high ozone levels in the Valley of Mexico.
Friday, June 04, 2010
Thursday, June 03, 2010
News Summary for June 4th, 2010
++ President Felipe Calderón announced that he would submit a constitutional reform proposal during the next congressional period to create a new police system based on 32 state police forces under a single command.
As he inaugurated the 28th session of the National Public Security Council, Calderón said the rule of law is an indispensable condition to transform Mexico into a safe, modern and developed nation. The National Public Security Council approved the proposal to create 32 state police forces under a single command that would coordinate efforts with the federal police.
++ Public Security Secretary Genaro García Luna said that three of every five police agents in Mexico earn up to four thousand pesos in monthly income and 68.3 percent only completed primary and secondary school. Just 4.5 percent went on to higher levels in the education system.
++ Nuevo León Governor Rodrigo Medina, who heads the Conago Public Security Committee, said that the proposal to establish a single command police force would not immediately resolve the insecurity crisis in Mexico.
++ The Supreme Court ruled that former IMSS chief Juan Molinar Horcasitas, current chief Daniel Karam, and the former governor of Sonora, Eduardo Bours, are responsible for the fire that killed 49 children at the ABC day care center in Hermosillo. Presidente Calderón decreed that as of this Saturday, June 5 would be a National Day of Mourning in memory of 49 children who were killed in 2009 in a fire at the ABC day care center in Hermosillo, Sonora.
++ The Quintana Roo Electoral Institute invalidated Gregorio Sánchez’s candidacy for governor in the state… Sánchez is being held at the El Rincón penitentiary in Tepic, Nayarit, accused of narcotics trafficking and money laundering… The electoral institute ordered the PRD, PT and Convergencia alliance to find a substitute for Sánchez by June 11.
++ From July 6 to August 6, INEGI is set to conduct a survey on insecurity, to assess and redesign public policies in security and criminal justice issues.
As he inaugurated the 28th session of the National Public Security Council, Calderón said the rule of law is an indispensable condition to transform Mexico into a safe, modern and developed nation. The National Public Security Council approved the proposal to create 32 state police forces under a single command that would coordinate efforts with the federal police.
++ Public Security Secretary Genaro García Luna said that three of every five police agents in Mexico earn up to four thousand pesos in monthly income and 68.3 percent only completed primary and secondary school. Just 4.5 percent went on to higher levels in the education system.
++ Nuevo León Governor Rodrigo Medina, who heads the Conago Public Security Committee, said that the proposal to establish a single command police force would not immediately resolve the insecurity crisis in Mexico.
++ The Supreme Court ruled that former IMSS chief Juan Molinar Horcasitas, current chief Daniel Karam, and the former governor of Sonora, Eduardo Bours, are responsible for the fire that killed 49 children at the ABC day care center in Hermosillo. Presidente Calderón decreed that as of this Saturday, June 5 would be a National Day of Mourning in memory of 49 children who were killed in 2009 in a fire at the ABC day care center in Hermosillo, Sonora.
++ The Quintana Roo Electoral Institute invalidated Gregorio Sánchez’s candidacy for governor in the state… Sánchez is being held at the El Rincón penitentiary in Tepic, Nayarit, accused of narcotics trafficking and money laundering… The electoral institute ordered the PRD, PT and Convergencia alliance to find a substitute for Sánchez by June 11.
++ From July 6 to August 6, INEGI is set to conduct a survey on insecurity, to assess and redesign public policies in security and criminal justice issues.
News Summary for June 3rd, 2010
++ “Gregate” continues…The Dialogue for the Reconstruction of Mexico leftist front, composed of the PRD, PT and Convergencia, had yet to define whether it would keep Gregorio Sánchez as its candidate for governor Quintana Roo. PRD deputies’ leader Alejandro Encinas said the party must find a replacement, otherwise it would not be able to participate in the elections. Gregorio Sánchez Martínez’s legal team filed an appeal against the indictment handed down by a judge on Wednesday… Gregorio Sánchez’s lawyer Eduardo Luengo Creel said the way the indictment was handled was unusual and unprecedented.
++ Candidates for governors in 12 states agreed to sign a letter proposed by the Common Cause civil group pledging to make public their assets and properties, fight corruption in government and the private sector and behave honorably in office.
++ Drug traffickers every year shift between 19 billion and 29 billion dollars from the United States into Mexico, said John Morton, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for U.S. Immigration and Customs. He said it was regrettable that the governments of both countries have not done enough to stem that flow of illegal funds. At the presentation of the Binational Study on Illicit Assets Mexico-United States, Morton said that the death of Mexican citizen Anastasio Hernández Rojas, after being beaten by 20 border patrol agents last weekend, was a tragic event.
++ Officials at Webb county in Laredo, Texas, seized 147 high power rifles that were to be sent to Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.
++ Mexico is seeking to bring about a high-level UN Security Council meeting on the topic of transnational organized crime so that the U.N. body would discuss the matter by broaching specific issues, said Mexico’s U.N. representative, Claude Heller.
++ Mexico City Attorney General Miguel Ángel Mancera said there was no evidence of bodies or disappearances in Tepito, denying a flurry of rumors about them earlier. The mother of the children who had allegedly been stolen from Tepito, Irma Merino, told investigators that her husband, Javier Covarrubias, had lied, and that is why he fled from justice.
++ Candidates for governors in 12 states agreed to sign a letter proposed by the Common Cause civil group pledging to make public their assets and properties, fight corruption in government and the private sector and behave honorably in office.
++ Drug traffickers every year shift between 19 billion and 29 billion dollars from the United States into Mexico, said John Morton, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for U.S. Immigration and Customs. He said it was regrettable that the governments of both countries have not done enough to stem that flow of illegal funds. At the presentation of the Binational Study on Illicit Assets Mexico-United States, Morton said that the death of Mexican citizen Anastasio Hernández Rojas, after being beaten by 20 border patrol agents last weekend, was a tragic event.
++ Officials at Webb county in Laredo, Texas, seized 147 high power rifles that were to be sent to Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.
++ Mexico is seeking to bring about a high-level UN Security Council meeting on the topic of transnational organized crime so that the U.N. body would discuss the matter by broaching specific issues, said Mexico’s U.N. representative, Claude Heller.
++ Mexico City Attorney General Miguel Ángel Mancera said there was no evidence of bodies or disappearances in Tepito, denying a flurry of rumors about them earlier. The mother of the children who had allegedly been stolen from Tepito, Irma Merino, told investigators that her husband, Javier Covarrubias, had lied, and that is why he fled from justice.
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
News Summary for June 2d, 2010
++ A federal judge handed down an indictment against Gregorio Sánchez, the PRD, PT and Convergencia candidate for governor in Quintana Roo, charging him with narcotics trafficking and using illicit funds. The judge also ruled to suspend Sanchez’s political rights, so his candidacy would no longer be valid. The Federal Electoral Institute was set to begin an administrative procedure to remove Gregorio Sánchez from voting lists to make official his loss of political-electoral rights after his indictment. PRD senators’ leader Carlos Navarrete said that Gregorio Sanchez’s lawyers were working to prepare a protection writ or amparo against the indictment. PRD chairman Jesús Ortega said that even though Gregorio Sánchez has been indicted he would continue to be the party’s candidate in Quintana Roo. PRD deputy Agustín Guerrero said the party’s national leadership made a mistake in choosing Sánchez as the candidate for governor in Quintana Roo given the lack of clarity in his form of income and bank accounts. PAN candidate for governor in Quintana Roo Alicia Ricalde called on the PRD, PT and Convergencia to join her campaign and get the PRI out of Quintana Roo.
++ PRI Senate caucus leader Manlio Fabio Beltrones announced that the Permanent Committee would speak out against the improper use of federal programs and subsidies in Ciudad Juárez… Beltrones charged that the government of President Felipe Calderón was using public programs and resources to back PAN candidates.
++ Speaking at an event to mark Navy Day President Felipe Calderón said that his government would not give in despite the head on attack from organized crime, because people need and demand the government’s support.
++ Also on Tuesday, Social Development Secretary Heriberto Félix Guerra acknowledged that urban poverty is the breeding ground for crime and public insecurity.
++ Authorities in the Federal District announced that the early phase of an environmental emergency remained in effect in the Valley of Mexico since pollution continued at severe levels that could be harmful to human health.
The Metropolitan Environmental Committee advised against doing physical exercise outdoors and called on citizens to use vehicles as little as possible.
++ PRI Senate caucus leader Manlio Fabio Beltrones announced that the Permanent Committee would speak out against the improper use of federal programs and subsidies in Ciudad Juárez… Beltrones charged that the government of President Felipe Calderón was using public programs and resources to back PAN candidates.
++ Speaking at an event to mark Navy Day President Felipe Calderón said that his government would not give in despite the head on attack from organized crime, because people need and demand the government’s support.
++ Also on Tuesday, Social Development Secretary Heriberto Félix Guerra acknowledged that urban poverty is the breeding ground for crime and public insecurity.
++ Authorities in the Federal District announced that the early phase of an environmental emergency remained in effect in the Valley of Mexico since pollution continued at severe levels that could be harmful to human health.
The Metropolitan Environmental Committee advised against doing physical exercise outdoors and called on citizens to use vehicles as little as possible.
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