Noticias de Hoy

* The mayor of San Pedro Garza García, Mauricio Fernández, said that the Interior Secretariat supports the use of informants to combat organized crime. Fernández said that the federal government knew that Alberto Mendoza Contreras, alias “El Chico Malo,” or “Bad Boy,” and suspected chief of the Beltrán Levya cartel in Nuevo León, was his informant. ++ Attorney General Office staff interrogated San Pedro Garza García mayor Mauricio Fernández Garza on his statements that “El Chico Malo” was his informant. ++ Authorities found the decapitated bodies of the police director in Agualeguas, Nuevo León, Heriberto Omar Cerda Cadena and of his brother Jesús Eloy Cerda Cadena, who was also a municipal employee. ++ The Nuevo León government said that the director of the Santa Catarina police, Luis Eduardo Murrieta, who was wounded in a shootout with hired hit men last Sunday, requested protection from the Mexican Navy since he fears for his life. ++ The Attorney General’s Office began an investigation into the massive prison breakout in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, in which 40 inmates escaped. ++ In view of concerns by businessmen about how Mexico’s image abroad is being damaged because of all the negative media coverage, President Felipe Calderón issued a call to objectively put things into perspective. ++ Federal police and army troops entered the Autonomous University of Morelos campus after student leader Edgardo Landeros Muñoz set of a firecracker during a meeting of the University Council as a show of protest because he had been dismissed as university representative. ++ The National Water Commission called on citizens to change the way, the paradigm by which, water is handled, since it is clear that natural resources will not be sufficient. ++ Mexico will join another 125 countries which will take part in the hour for the planet by dimming lights on Saturday at 8:30 p. m…. The aim is to make the great industrial powers take action to reduce global warming…

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