Sunday, August 14, 2011

News Summary for August 15th, 2011


Finance Secretary Ernesto Cordero said that despite the complexity of the international financial instability, the Mexican government is moving forward to strengthen the local economy… He said new measures will be announced this week to increase the role of small and medium-sized businesses…
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PAN deputies caucus leader Josefina Vázquez Mota offered an annual report on her role as leader…  She said it is impossible to proposed development plans if Mexico is rocked by bitter divisions…
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 And Finance Secretary Ernesto Cordero continues to garner support from the rank and file of the PAN for his bid for the presidential nomination… He received the endorsement of 38,000 PAN followers in Guanajuato… He called on sympathizers not to let themselves be intimidated by the PRI…
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Also in Guanajuato, PAN politician Santiago Creel lashed out at party strategy that appears to be already favoring Finance Secretary Ernesto Cordero… Creel visited former president Vicente Fox at the Fox center…
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A cargo trailer carrying diesel overturned on the Puebla-Orizaba highway and exploded near the Cuauhtémoc stadium… No one was injured… 
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The Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity led by poet Javier Sicilia will renew dialogue with Congress on Wednesday so as to analyze the national safety law bill. Some 2,000 people took part in a silent march by the Movement for Peace from the National Anthropology Museum to Los Pinos and from there to the Senate building… Other social leaders who accompanied Javier Sicilia included former Federal District ombudsman Emilio Álvarez Icaza, Julián Lebaron, and other victims of crime in Mexico…
At a rally near Los Pinos Julián Lebaron called on Mexicans to take united action against violence… He said that no “populist Messiah” will come to save Mexicans from the lack of safety and injustice…
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An armed commando in Jalisco assassinated the chief of police of Ixtlahuacán Jesús Caledonio Humildad Galaviz… The attack was particularly brutal as first the assailants shot him on a highway and then they followed the ambulance that picked him up some minutes later to finish him off before medics could save his life…
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A judge issued an arrest warrant for the head of the Tarímbaro, Michoacán police department, Juan Osvaldo Cedeño Esquivias… Known as “El Zorro” or “The Fox”, Cedeño is accused of protecting members of the criminal organization calling itself the Knights Templar.
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Some good news.. The Tourism Secretariat said that 11.44 million foreign tourists arrived in Mexico in the first quarter, which was an increase of 3.3 percent compared to the same period last year…

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