Noticias de Hoy

++ The government of Haiti reported that the earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale that hit Haiti on January 12 has claimed 111,499 lives… The previous death toll given earlier this week had been 75,000 dead. ++ As he headed the ceremony to see off the Papaloapan ship that set sail from Veracruz to take aid to Haiti, President Felipe Calderòn called on Foreign Affairs Secretary Patricia Espinosa to redouble efforts to find the Mexican citizens believed to have been in Haiti when the quake struck. ++ The remains of Karen Valero, the Mexican citizen who died in Haiti during the earthquake on January 12, were cremated in Querétaro… Her body had been flown back to Mexico on Thursday on a Navy Secretariat plane. ++ Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Mont said that electoral alliances are not anti-democratic, as long as they are born from a sharing of political agendas seeking transformation rather than merely put together to win elections. ++ PRD deputy Leticia Quezada demanded of Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Mont that he abstain from part decisions regarding possible election alliances between the PRD and the PAN. ++PAN national chairman César Nava said that when his party speaks with opposition forces regarding possible election alliances, it has to do with bringing about change in government, so they are not merely electoral whims. ++ PRI national leader Beatriz Paredes scoffed at alleged potential alliances between the PAN and the PRD. . . She said the alliances only seek to undermine the country’s political environment. ++ Labor Secretary Javier Lozano said that there is evidence that members of the Mexican Electricians Union have sabotaged facilities of now defunct power utility Luz y Fuerza del Centro.

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