++ The Nuevo León Attorney General’s Office initiated
an investigation against Jonás Larrazabal Bretón, brother of the Mayor of Monterrey,
Fernando Larrazabal, on suspicions he was charging extortion money to casinos
operating illegally in Monterrey. Operations director for the Nuevo León
Firefighters Andrés Molina said that if the Casino Royale had installed
appropriate security measures the arson attack would not have spread so quickly
nor would 53 people would have been killed. He said he only saw one emergency
exit and the other one was false one, even though security requirements
stipulate six emergency doors.
++ Unknown assailants lobbed two smoke grenades
in a betting hall belonging to Grupo Caliente in Tijuana, Baja California.
++ Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said there
is no evidence of extortion operations in Mexico City in connection to Casino businesses.
++ Authorities found the bodies of two women linked
to Contralinea investigative journalism magazine. The naked bodies of
Contralinea founder Ana Maria Marcela Yarce Viveros and independent journalist
Rocio Gonzalez Trapaga, were found in a park in Iztapalapa borough in Mexico
City…
++ Local officials said a bodyguard was
suspected of firing on a school bus in Huixquilucan, Mexico State.
++ UNAM rector José Narro presented the
university’s proposal on peace and security to PAN senators… He said the
proposal embodies many Mexicans’ demand that there be “no more” crime in the
country.
++ UNAM rector José Narro was set to meet Monday
with President Felipe Calderón to review an anti-crime strategy proposed by
academicians to face violence in Mexico.
++ Jean Succar Kuri was sentenced to 112 years
and a half in prison for corrupting minors and child pornography.
++ Interior Secretary Francisco Blake delivered
President Felipe Calderon’s state of the nation report to Congress. In the
report President Calderón said that after five years his government is moving
forward determinedly to transform Mexico, to raise quality of life for Mexicans
and modernize institutions.
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