Noticias de Hoy

++ The Attorney General´s Office is undertaking a constitutional appeal on the Gay marriage and same sex couple adoptions legislations recently approved by the Mexico City´s legislature. ++ At a plenary meeting of PAN deputies the lawmakers agreed to lobby for fiscal adjustments in negotiations on financial reform… They will propose getting rid of the Income Tax and lowering the Value Added Tax or IVA from 16 percent to 15 percent. ++ The condition of football player Salvador Cabañas has worsened because the cerebral edema caused by the gunshot wound to his head has increased in size. Cabañas, a Paraguayan national who plays for the América team, was shot in the head early Monday at a private club in Mexico City. ++ The Federal District Attorney General’s Office confirmed that there was willful changing of the scene where Cabañas was attacked… State authorities said that an investigation has been launched into the properties of José Jorge Balderas, known as “JJ,” and who is a suspect in the crime. ++ Silvia Irabien, known as “La Chiva,” recognized José Jorge Balderas Garza, alias “JJ,” as the individual with whom she had an affair and who fathered her daughter… However she said she knew him under the name Jorge Díaz Treviño. ++ The Bank of Mexico increased its forecast for economic growth in 2010 to between 3. 2 and 4. 2 percent. The Central Bank also said remittances from abroad fell by 3. 956 billion dollars in 2009 compared to 2008, that is to say a 15. 7-percent drop. ++ The National Human Rights Commission said that 8,000 execution-style murders linked to organized crime were committed in Mexico in 2009. ++ President Felipe Calderón attended the raising anchor ceremony for Mexican Navy ship Zapoteco that set sail heading for Haiti carrying 215 tons of humanitarian aid… The president said Mexicans donated the record amount of 15,000 tons of aid for Haiti.

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