Noticias de Hoy

* A definitive death toll has not been set from the massive earthquake that hit the impoverished Caribbean nation on January 12… Authorities have buried 150,000 people in the metropolitan zone of Port-au-Prince alone, but the number of dead could rise to over 200,000 in coming days… * The Haitian government declared the search for survivors in the rubble officially over so as to be able to focus on helping survivors, thousands of whom are living in temporary tent camps… Rescue teams were able to drag out 133 people alive from the ruins of buildings that had crumbled… * Mexico is one of the countries that will define actions in Haiti’s recovery… The Foreign Affairs Secretariat announced that Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Patricia Espinosa, will attend the meeting on the issue in Montreal, Canada…* A fourth group of Mexicans living in Haiti arrived back in the country… Thirty-one of the 148 Mexicans believed to have been in Haiti when the earthquake struck are still missing…Kareen Valero, a Mexican killed in Haiti, was buried in Querétaro…*Turning to other news, the PAN was still debating over whether to enter into several alliances with its arch-enemy the PRD, in governor’s races coming up this year… *PRI Chamber of Deputies caucus leader Francisco Rojas denied that the PRI is frightened because of the possible PAN-PRD alliance, although he did say he was surprised…*PRD president Jesús Ortega said that political alliances are not “venomous” – the term PRI leader Beatriz Paredes used to described them, but rather “pure poison” against longstanding PRI political dominance through local leaders or “caciques. ”*PAN leader César Nava said that it might be possible to consider alliances with the PRD in states such as Hidalgo and Oaxaca, but that with the PRI that option is discarded since differences are not only deep, they are also historic… * And PAN senator Santiago Creel wants to run for president again and said so over the weekend. . . *The United States lauded the new security strategy launched by the federal government in Ciudad Juárez that has Army command changing to Federal Police command… U. S. ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual said that the military lacked jurisdiction to intervene, take evidence, cordon areas off and present evidence in trials…

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