News Summary for May 16th, 2013

++ Interior Secretary Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong said that President Enrique Peña Nieto ordered the dismissal of Consumer Protection Agency Humberto Benítez Treviño… The dismissal came in the wake of a scandal involving Benítez Treviño’s daughter who went to a restaurant in Polanco and after she was denied the table she wanted, tried to have the venue closed down by inspectors.

 In other information, Osorio Chong said security measures for Michoacán will be announced on Thursday.

News Summary for May 15th, 2013

PAN senators proposed that the army should be sent to Michoacán because the situation there is out of control and the federal government needs to take over. PAN senators said that many towns in Michoacán are currently no man’s land and/or in the power of drug traffickers.

News Summary for May 13th, 2013

Interior Secretary Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong announced early Sunday morning that because the Popocateptl volcano is showing more activity the warning stage was upgraded from Yellow Phase 2 ro Yellow Phase 3.

The National Defense Secretariat deployed 2,000 military troops to help residents of nearby towns who might be affected if the Popocatéptl volcano erupts or activity such as spewing out smoke, ash and volcanic material increases to dangerous levels… The Defense Secretariat said that up to 11,000 people might have to be evacuated from areas near the volcano…

News Summary for May 10th, 2013

++ Mexico State government said that another person died who suffered injuries in the explosion of a gas tanker truck in Ecatepec on the Mexico-Pachuca highway raising the death toll to 24.

News Summary for May 9th, 2013

++ Activity at the Popocatépetl volcano intensified and it spewed out a plume of ash 3,000 meters above the crater… Ash fell over parts of Puebla and Tlaxcala... The volcano alert remains on Yellow Phase 2.

News Summary for May 8th, 2013

+ + The government of the State of Mexico informed  20 people dead, 33 injured and 45 houses damaged, is the balance of the explosion of a gas pipe in the Mexico-Pachuca, .

They explained that ten of those killed are children and the driver of the pipe is under arrest in a hospital.

++ President Enrique Peña Nieto sent a message of solidarity to the relatives of the victims of the blast.

News Summary for May 7th, 2013

++ Interior Secretary Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong said that Mexico’s northeastern area has the full backing of the federal government to bring back tranquility to Nuevo León, Coahuila and San Luis Potosí but especially Tamaulipas so that peace can return.

++ The deputy head of legal affairs and international affairs at the Attorney General’s Office, Mariana Benítez Tiburcio said that coordination is necessary among authorities to give back tranquility to regions of the country that have lost it.

News Summary for May 6th, 2013

++To commemorate the 151 anniversary of the 'Battle of Puebla', President Enrique Pena Nieto demanded unity and commitment to political actors and citizens to Mexico to face any challenge.

++With or without Pact Mexico, regressive reforms that impair the sovereignty or violate democracy is not going to happen, said the national president of the PRD, Jesus Zambrano, on the 24th anniversary of the founding of the Aztec sun party in the former convent St. Hippolytus.

President Barack Obama´s remarks at the Anthropology Museum Mexico City

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release

May 03, 2013

Remarks by the President to the People of Mexico

Anthropology Museum
Mexico City, Mexico

9:29 A.M. CDT

THE PRESIDENT:  Hola!  (Applause.)  Buenos dias!  Please, please, everybody have a seat.  It is wonderful to be back in México -- lindo y querido.  (Applause.)  I bring with me the greetings and friendship of the people of the United States, including tens of millions of proud Mexican Americans.  (Applause.)

We UPDATED our page "Special Report: Barack Obama's Visits Mexico -Interviews/Analysis"

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                           Jeffrey Daviddow
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                           Shannon K. O'Neil
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Chat: Analysis of the Obama Visit

El Universal de Mexico

At 13:30 hrs. chat at www.eluniversal.com.mx to talk about Obama´s visit to Mexico. Join us

News Summary for May 3rd, 2013

++ U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Mexico City on a 20-hour work visit… He met with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto at the National Palace.

After their meeting both leaders offered a joint press conference in which they emphasized the importance of acting against transnational organization crime, illegal financial flows and arms trafficking.

News Summary for May 2nd, 2013

A hooded group attacked riot police officers

++ Members of the Guerrero Popular Movement damaged government buildings and the state congress during their protests on May 1, Workers Day in Chilpancingo.

++ Members of the Mexican Electricians Union, the National Workers Union and the Coordinadora Teachers Union dissident group among others marched through the streets of downtown Mexico City and held a rally in the Zócalo main square.

News Summary for May 1st, 2013

++Deputy Interior Secretary Eduardo Sánchez confirmed that the father-in-law of accused drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Inés Coronel Barrera, was arrested in Agua Prieta, in Sonora… He is accused of drug trafficking.

Dana Priest Investigative Reporter Washington Post on Imagen News Radio

Dana joins us to talk about the intelligence relationship between Mexico/USA bases on her controversial article published April 27th. 

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News Summary for April 30th, 2013

++ The PAN national political committee agreed to stay in the Pact for Mexico only if the government punishes 57 Social Development Secretariat officials linked to alleged vote buying in Veracruz.

++ As he presented his second government report Guerrero Governor Ángel Aguirre reiterated his willingness to hold dialogue with dissident teachers but said that arrest warrants issued against them will be carried out.

New Chicago Council Survey Finds American Opinion of Mexico Mixed

April 29, 2013 CHICAGO - In advance of President Obama’s visit to Mexico later this week, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, in conjunction with The Woodrow Wilson Center, today released a public opinion survey brief on Americans’ views toward Mexico. Findings show Americans’ overall views of Mexico are at their lowest point ever in Chicago Council Surveys dating back to 1994. It also finds relatively few Americans are aware that Mexico is one of our top trading partners.

At the same time, however, a majority of Americans still say that ties with Mexico are important and consider Mexico an economic partner (versus rival). Taken together, the results suggest that increased public awareness of bilateral endeavors could boost support for increased economic and energy integration in the future.

News Summary for April 29th, 2013

++Scores of journalists marched to the offices of the Interior Secretariat and to the Veracruz Government office in Mexico City to demand of federal authorities that they increase security for and guarantee the safety of journalists in Veracruz. A similar march took place in Veracruz state capital Xalapa and other cities. Marches occurred one year after the murder of Regina Martínez, a Proceso reporter killed in her home in Xalapa.

News Summary for April 26th, 2013

++ Students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college and dissident teachers from Chilpancingo marched on the Autopista del Sol highway to protest over the release from prison of two investigative police agents who shot and killed two Ayotzinapa students on December 12, 2011 during a protest on the highway.

The protesters used slingshots to smash windows with rocks when they passed by the National Teachers Union Section 14 building.

News Summary for April 25th, 2013

++Teachers of the State Coordinator of Education Workers caused damage in Chilpancingo to protest the approval of the State Education Law.

++In the offices of PRI, PAN, PRD and Citizens Movement broke windows, threw furniture, painted graffiti, in PRI and PRD facilities used gasoline to produce fires.

++Gonzalo Juarez, leader of the dissident teachers of Guerrero, said their protests now will be extreme and there will be surprises for the state government authorities.

News Summary for April 24th, 2013

++President Peña Nieto warned he won’t tolerate the electoral usage of social programs… He called on political parties, municipal and state authorities, so that together with the federal government defines authentic armor of these plans in order to fulfill their purpose.

News Summary for April 23th, 2013

++ PAN leader Gustavo Madero announced he would no longer take part in any event involving the Pact for Mexico since President Enrique Peña Nieto did not give proper importance to charges of alleged vote-buying in Veracruz.

Madero said that Peña Nieto’s attitude appears to indicate that he tolerates this kind of behavior.

News Summary for April 22th, 2013

++The group of hooded people that occupied the lobby of the Rectory Tower in University City (CU) threatened to hold a sit indefinitely until their demands are fulfilled, between them, the reinstallation of the five expelled students from the Institute of Science and Humanities (CCH) Naucalpan.

++ Authorities of the leading academic house filed a criminal complaint against the people who caused damage to the facility last Friday.

++ Directors of 74 schools, colleges, faculties, institutes and research centers from UNAM require the hooded group immediately deliver the Rectory Tower, a landmark building declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

News Summary for April 19th, 2013

++Integrants of the Guerrero State Coordinator of Education Workers took the facilities of the state legislation and broke glasses ad doors.

Formerly they blocked the Autopista del Sol Highway in both directions, in the diverting point to the airport of Acapulco to pressure the state congress to dictaminate their proposal to the State Educational Law.

++Elementary Education Teachers from the Rural School “Vasco de Quiroga” of Tiripetío, Michoacán, closed for more than two hours the exit to Pátzcuaro as a part of their demand of automatic places and in rejection of the Educative Reform.