News Summary of the most important news in Mexico for July 18th, 2011
Poet Javier Sicilia lauded the work by the Attorney General?s Office inarresting and indicting his son?s killers and demanded now that the justice systempunishes the murder of his son and six other people who were killed with hisson. Authorities announced that 20suspects of the murder of JuanFrancisco Sicilia had been arrested? Most of them belong to the PacificSouth drug cartel? Sicilia demanded that the federal government resolve the morethan 20 cases that were presented in the Castillo de Chapultepec talks withPresident Felipe Calderon. Sicilia statedthat he does not want his son?s case to be an exception in the wave of unsolvedcases. —-Fifty-nine inmates escaped and another sevenwere killed in a massive prison breakout on Friday in the Nuevo Laredo prison?The federal government condemned the breakout and said that in the past 15months 400 prisoners have escaped from Tamaulipas prisons in 84 incidents. (Comment: Is it time to stop trying to incarcerate anyone in Tamaulipas, comeon, 400 prisoners have escaped!) —A lot of political news? The PAN wrapped up aweekend strategy meeting for the 2012 elections that was headed by President Calderon?. Party members agreed on the need to join together and reach out to citizens?—-And PRI leaders also met with 19 governors,parliamentary leaders, and grassroots organizations to analyze strategy andaction for 2012. —-The PRD did the same, with leaders holding ameeting at a hotel in downtown Mexico City? Begin to prepare for next year?s presidentialelections. Mexico City Mayor MarceloEbrard denied that there is a division now that some groups are backing him and others are backing Andr
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