Friday, August 26, 2011

News Summary for August 26th, 2011

++ Armed assailants attacked the Casino Royale building in Monterrey, Nuevo León… The attack set off a fire… More then 50 people died and dozens were wounded… Authorities fear the number of victims could increase as people were trapped inside the building…
++ A group of gunmen fired at the “Caliente” betting casino in Saltillo, Coahuila... One person was hurt…
 ++ Authorities captured one of the suspects in the shooting Wednesday at a primary school in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, in which one man was killed and four women, whose children were at the school, were wounded. 
 
++ Federal police captured María de los Ángeles Garibay Uribe, who is also known as “Angy”, and is an oficial with the Michoacán government... She is accused of belonging to the Knights Templar criminal organization envolved in drug dealing and extortions... 
++ Authorities in Culiacán, Sinaloa, found the body of journalist and director of the Internet magazine “A Discusión”, Humberto Millán Salazar, who had been kidnapped on Wednesday.  
++ President Felipe Calderón said that the least that can be hoped from Congress is that it approve a national security bill that will give certainty to soldiers who fight organized crime. At a meeting of PAN deputies in Morelia, Michoacán, Calderón called on them to redouble efforts to bring about amendments on laws to fight organizad crime.  
++ The Finance Secretariat filed a criminal lawsuit seeking to find out who was to blame for inconsistencies in debt contracting on the part of the Coahuila government. PAN senators leader José González Morfín said there is evidence that officials with the Coahuila government falsified documents in order to obtain more loans. 
++ The National Statistics and Geography Institute said that unemployment in July reached 5.62 per cent... That is a total of  2.7 million Mexicans have no job... The rate is the highest in the last nine months

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

A warning for Mexico. As a Canadian, I am becoming increasely concerned by the violent criminality that occurs almost daily in your country. Not only will I personally NEVER visit your country because of it, I now no longer want Mexicans to be able visit my country. And that is very sad. Thirty years ago I admired Mexico for its history and culture.