6.25.2012

News Summary for June 25th, 2012


At least 25 people were killed when a passenger bus taking sympathizers to a local meeting to back a Labor Party candidate for mayor plunged into a 300-meter ravine in Buena Vista de Cuéllar in Guerrero… Another 23 peope were injured.
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PRI presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto held a final campaign event in Mexico City in the Azteca stadium… He pledged to promote energy reform…
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Hundreds of protesters staged a march from the Zócalo and along Madero and Reforma avenues to the Independence Angel to protest against PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto.
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PAN presidential candidate Josefina Vázquez Mota toured Guanajuato and said that food packages will not buy out PAN sympathizers… She said that she is only a couple of points behind the PRI candidate…
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At an event to close his campaign in Nayarit, leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador charged the PRI of paying the state government to buy votes for Enrique Peña Nieto.
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New Alliance candidate Gabriel Quadri closed his campaign in Mexico City with a race event called Alliance-T (Ally yourself) with Mexico…
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Cardinal Norberto Rivera inaugurated an exibition honoring the Virgen of Charity of Copper, Cuba’s patron saint… Rivera called for an end to the U.S. economic embargo since the world cannot continue to have barriers…

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