++ President Felipe Calderón submitted to Congress a law bill to establish a Single Police Command in the country’s 32 states and overcome vulnerability in municipal police forces currently. Public Security Secretary Genaro García Luna called on President Calderón to follow through on the new federal police model to restore peace in Mexico.
++ The head of the Mexican Association of Municipalities, Azucena Olivares, warned that dismantling municipal police forces would send thousands of officers into unemployment and that they would surely join organized crime.
++ Pachuca Mayor Geraldina García transferred control of the municipal police in her city to the State Public Security Secretariat, so that 522 municipal police are now the direct responsibility of the state government.
++ In his appearance before lawmakers Attorney General Arturo Chávez said that his agency does not follow political interests nor favoritisms in applying the law.
++ Fifteen former public servants in Michoacán who were arrested in the so-called Michoacán sweep and then set free called for the Attorney General’s Office to stop harassing them and that dialogue be established with authorities to prevent further charges against them from being fabricated.
++ Mexico City Attorney General Miguel Ángel Mancera said that two of the five victims killed in the assassination of five people in the San Miguel Ajusco district had a criminal record connected to drug trafficking.
++ Local PAN deputy Manuel Benítez Manzanes was kidnapped in Zimatlán de Álvarez, Oaxaca… His family requested the state Attorney General’s Office not investigate the kidnapping.
++ Following President Calderón’s accusations that Andrés Manuel López Obrador is a danger to Mexico, electoral councilors called on the president not to open the old 2006 election wound that took so much effort to heal.
++ The Supreme Court threw out a constitutional controversy filed by the PRD to challenge the appointment of Mony de Swaan as chairman of the Federal Telecommunications Commission.
++ The National Water Commission warned that rains would continue for the rest of the year in southeastern Mexico so that the risk of floods would remain.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
News Summary for October 6th, 2010
IMAGEN NEWS SUMMARY OCTOBER 5
++ A group of armed assailants gunned down five members of a family in the Tlalpan borough, in Mexico City. The murders occurred on the street. Mexico City Attorney General Miguel Ángel Mancera said the killings could be linked to drug dealing, since police found drugs on the spot where the murders occurred. Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said justice would be done in the case.
++ Mexican Navy troops arrested 17 suspected members of the Gulf Cartel in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Ten of those arrested were municipal police agents in Río Bravo.
++ The U.S. Justice Department and the Attorney General’s Office signed two agreements to fight arms trafficking and money laundering through the border shared by both countries, so as to weaken criminal organizations.
In order to fight arms trafficking to Mexico, the U.S. government implemented an electronic system to trace alleged narcotics traffickers who buy a weapon in the United States.
++ A Federal Judicature Commissioner Jorge Moreno Collado defended the work done by federal judges and magistrates who set free public officials arrested in the so-called “Michoacán sweep” who had been accused of links to narcotics traffickers… The judges that set them free found insufficient evidence to keep them in prison… Attorney General Arturo Chávez lashed out at the rulings that allowed the Michoacán public servants to walk out of jail. But Moreno Collado said judges are not there to serve the powerful, nor political forces or groups within the political parties.
++ In an interview with Grupo Imagen, President Calderón denied that it was an error on the part of authorities to step out of the kidnapping of Diego Fernández de Cevallos, as requested by his relatives… He also said it was not a given that the PRI would regain the presidency…
++ Salvador Rocha, Grupo Iusacell’s legal representative, warned that the decision by the Communications and Transportation Secretariat to hand Nextel a concession on the 21 tender was not legal and could be revoked by the courts.
++ A group of armed assailants gunned down five members of a family in the Tlalpan borough, in Mexico City. The murders occurred on the street. Mexico City Attorney General Miguel Ángel Mancera said the killings could be linked to drug dealing, since police found drugs on the spot where the murders occurred. Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said justice would be done in the case.
++ Mexican Navy troops arrested 17 suspected members of the Gulf Cartel in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Ten of those arrested were municipal police agents in Río Bravo.
++ The U.S. Justice Department and the Attorney General’s Office signed two agreements to fight arms trafficking and money laundering through the border shared by both countries, so as to weaken criminal organizations.
In order to fight arms trafficking to Mexico, the U.S. government implemented an electronic system to trace alleged narcotics traffickers who buy a weapon in the United States.
++ A Federal Judicature Commissioner Jorge Moreno Collado defended the work done by federal judges and magistrates who set free public officials arrested in the so-called “Michoacán sweep” who had been accused of links to narcotics traffickers… The judges that set them free found insufficient evidence to keep them in prison… Attorney General Arturo Chávez lashed out at the rulings that allowed the Michoacán public servants to walk out of jail. But Moreno Collado said judges are not there to serve the powerful, nor political forces or groups within the political parties.
++ In an interview with Grupo Imagen, President Calderón denied that it was an error on the part of authorities to step out of the kidnapping of Diego Fernández de Cevallos, as requested by his relatives… He also said it was not a given that the PRI would regain the presidency…
++ Salvador Rocha, Grupo Iusacell’s legal representative, warned that the decision by the Communications and Transportation Secretariat to hand Nextel a concession on the 21 tender was not legal and could be revoked by the courts.
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