++ Poet Javier Sicilia, who heads the Movement for Peace with Justice
and Dignity, broke off talks with Congress, accusing them of betrayal after
having given the initial go ahead to the National Security draft bill. Sicilia
read a press release outside the Congressional building in which he demanded a
clear sign from Congress that it would move forward towards truly a humanistic
legislation in security (Comment: Whatever that means?) PAN caucus leader at the Chamber of Deputies
Josefina Vázquez Mota denied that lawmakers have failed in their agreements
with Sicilia since she said no initial draft document has been approved on the
floor and the law of course has yet to be approved.(Comment: Also, don`t forget
that she is running for President…)
++ After two municipal police were murdered in Ascensión, Chihuahua, the
entire police force resigned in fear of also being targeted by organized crime.
++ The Brothers on the Path shelter in Ciudad Ixtepec, in Oaxaca,
accused the National Migration Institute of charging 14 Salvadoran women 3,000
pesos telling them their legal permit of one month in Mexico had expired. The
shelter said the activists were only in Mexico one week to take part in the
Step by Step For Peace caravan.
++ A criminal judged issued another arrest warrant for former Chiapas
governor Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía accusing him of negligent homicide for the
deaths of two newborns in a hospital in Comitán.
++ Leader of the Aviation Pilots union Fernando Perfecto said the group
would seek to have the deadline extended for Mexicana de Aviación airline to be
declared in bankruptcy.(Comment: I think
it is time to start signing the golondrinas…Adios Mexicana, Adios para siempre
Adios…)
++ While on a tour of Michoacán President Felipe Calderón announced he
would suspend tours to the state so as not to interfere in elections there. (Comment:
Calderon’s sister is running for governor.
It is hard to believe that the federal government will not step-in to
help out the President`s sister…)
++ Finance Secretary Ernesto Cordero said falls in the main
international stock markets were caused by bad economic policies and
irresponsibility on the part of some countries that carry excessive debt loads.
The impact of the crisis was felt in Mexico… The Mexican Stock Exchange fell
3.37 percent, its largest drop since February 2009 on news of Wall Street’s
plunge after the Dow Jones index dropped 4.31 percent.
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