Noticias de Hoy

++ Bank of Mexico governor Agustín Carstens pinted out that tax and fuel hikes will have a limited effect on inflation. ++ The Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD, José Ángel Gurría, said Mexico must nix energy and gasoline subsidy since it’s keeping the State from earning more resources. ++ Petróleos Mexicanos director general Juan José Suárez Coppel said there’s no need for a new petroleum reform bill, since all efforts must be geared to applying the first one. ++ President Felipe Calderón told Mexico’s ambassadors and consuls to relay what is “really going on” in Mexico with regard to crime and human rights. ++ Mexico’s Ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhán said it would be difficult that immigration reform be approved this year, because of midterm elections in November. ++ Federal District Civil Protection secretary Elías Moreno Brizuela, said forecasters were predicting temperatures of two degrees Centigrade in downtown Mexico City and minus one degree Centigrade in mountainous regions, caused by cold front number 22. ++ Authorities in the State of Mexico closed off approaches to the Nevado de Toluca mountain after a snowstorm left a thick layer of snow making the roadway very slippery. It also snowed at the foot of the Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl volcanoes.

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