Noticias de Hoy

++ The death toll from a massacre Saturday night in Ciudad Juárez has risen to 16… Twelve of the victims were where teenagers … The killings occurred when an armed commando opened fire on guests at a students’ party…The Attorney General’s Office said it will not take on the investigation into the massacre, since it is not a federal crime. Chihuahua state Public Security Secretary Víctor Valencia de los Santos, resigned from the job as he seeks to win the PRI’s nomination to run for mayor in Ciudad Juárez. ++ Gathering at the first ordinary session this year, lawmakers from the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate held a minute’s silence in memory of the people killed in the massacre in Ciudad Juárez over the weekend… Lawmakers condemned the massacre. ++ And in further violence, it was reported that an armed commando attacked a bar in Torreón, Coahuila… Ten people were killed and 15 wounded. ++ In the wake of massacres in Ciudad Juárez and Torreón, the Senate summoned the federal Security Cabinet to appear before the legislative body to explain the strategy that is being implemented to fight organized crime. ++ Using “narco-banners” displayed in Michoacán, Guanajuato and Guerrero, the criminal organization known as “La Familia” announced it was forming a bloc to fight the hired gunmen’s group “Los Zetas”. ++ The Federal District Attorney General’s Office has reenacted the attack on Paraguayan soccer player Salvador Cabañas, which took place in a bar in Mexico City a week ago… Mexico City security officials said five bank accounts belonging to Cabañas’s suspected attacker have been frozen…++ José Rosas Aispuro has quit the PRI party and is now formally running for governor of Durango on the ticket of a coalition formed by the PAN-PRD-PT and Convergencia. ++ At a meeting in Tokyo, President Felipe Calderón and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama have agreed on an Action Plan for Global Strategic Partnership to strengthen joint actions by the G-20 group in areas such as global warming and disarmament. ++ The Usumacinta ship set sail from Manzanillo, Colima heading for Haiti carrying 1,251 tons of supplies and other humanitarian aid for the quake-devastated Caribbean nation.

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