Sunday, August 21, 2011

News summary for August 22, 2011

A shootout near and around a soccer stadium in Torreón on Saturday caused panic, as players rushed to the changing rooms and people attending the game crouched down among the seats…Armed men in three vans refused to halt at a military checkpoint and army troops chased after them… One municipal police officer was hurt.  The game was suspended definitively… Authorities found several fired bullets in the stadium. The Mexican Soccer Federation condemned the violence and called for a meeting to assess security measures in stadiums.  
The Presidency said the shootings were regrettable and offered to investigate the incident…
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Unidentified assailants murdered José Eduviges Nava Altamriano, mayor of Zacualpan, in Mexico State… He was kidnapped on Friday… Authorities found his body on the side of a federal highway from Teloloapan, in the so called Tierra Caliente region of Guerrero...

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Legal counsel for the Mexico Archdiocese Armando Martínez said the Metropolitan Cathedral is not equipped to receive holy remains of John Paul II such as his blood, because the Public Safety Secretariat withdrew guards who were protecting the cathedral…
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Finance Secretary Ernesto Cordero said political, economic and social conditions in Mexico are much better than they were 10 years ago when the PAN took over the government from the PRI…
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Senate Speaker  Manlio Fabio Beltrone called on political parties and the federal government to find agreement to move forward to face the economic turbulence on an international and national level…
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School summer holidays are over… It’s back to school for the 2011-2012 year as more than 27.6 million kids from primary through secondary school return to their classrooms…

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