Noticias de Hoy

++ Haitian authorities said the number of people killed in the devastating earthquake last week has risen to 75,000… The Haitian government said 250,000 people were injured in the quake and another one million lost their homes. United Nations officials in Haiti said two Mexican female diplomats working for the U. N. in Port-au-Prince are missing… They are believed to have been inside the U. N. building in Haiti when the quake struck…. The building collapsed. Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Patricia Espinosa said the mission in Haiti has intensified efforts to locate 58 of the 138 Mexican nationals believed to have been in Haiti when the earthquake hit on January 12… One of those missing is Gerard Le Chevallier, French-Salvadoran husband of the head of the Puebla Women’s Institute Marcela Jiménez Avendaño. Le Chevallier, 53, has been head of Political Affairs at the U. N. mission in Haiti for the past six months. ++ Mexico’s Ambassador to Haiti Everardo Suárez said the body of Karen Valero, a Mexican killed in the earthquake, will shortly be sent back to Mexico. Mexican President Felipe Calderón pledged to locate all Mexicans who were in Haiti when the earthquake struck. ++ In other news… PRI Senate caucus leader Manlio Fabio Beltrones said that political alliances should be born from a sharing of political ideals, not for mere expediency at election time… He was apparently referring to a possible PAN-PRD alliance. ++ The director of the Mexican Social Security Institute Daniel Karam acknowledged that more than 220,000 jobs in the formal sector were lost in 2009.

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