++ President Felipe Calderón headed the closing ceremony at the Group of
20 Summit in Los Cabos, Baja California. Some of the agreements reached at the meeting included injecting over 450 billion
dollars into the International Monetary Fund and an action plan to promote
growth and employment.
++ Three of the four presidential candidates participated in a debate
organized by the #IAm132 movement held in the Federal District Human Rights
Commission. PRI presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto said that he sent a
letter to the #IAm132 movement to explain that he declined the invitation to
take part in the debate because they did not assured conditions of neutrality
and equity for the debate.
++ Leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that PRI governors
working to favor Enrique Peña Nieto are handing out food packages to buy votes
for Peña Nieto.
++ New Alliance candidate Gabriel Quadri said it was regrettable that
part of Mexican society is obsessed with the fact that his party belongs to
teachers union leader Elba Esther Gordillo.
++ Interior Secretary Alejandro Poiré called on presidential candidates
to respect the results of the elections on July 1st and he also
called on citizens to vote.
++ Guerrero Governor Ángel Aguirre came to an agreement with dissident
teachers that postpones applying teacher performance tests and standard tests…
Teachers, who stopped activities at 170 elementary schools, were also assured
that the 4,000 teachers who took part in the strike will not be punished for
taking part in the one-month strike.
++ In Michoacán, after a 23-day teacher strike there, PRI governor
Fausto Vallejo said that his administration cannot respond to the demands being
made by the dissident Teachers Union “Coordinadora” group.
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