Noticias de Hoy

University dean Rafael Rangel Sostmann confirmed that two students at TEC de Monterrey university were killed on Friday caught in the crossfire between the army and an armed group in a shootout near the university campus. —-President Felipe Calderón and his wife Margarita Zavala expressed their condolences to the families of the two innocent students killed in the crossfire…—-Authorities in Nuevo León, town mayors, party leaders, local and federal deputies as well as representatives of private and civic groups called for unity to combat crime, in a paid ad published in local newspapers in the state. —-Violence linked to organized crime has this year claimed 1,936 lives… Of these execution style killings 436 were in Chihuahua, 338 in Sinaloa and 273 in Durango. . . —–President Felipe Calderón vowed that the fight against organized crime will continue, the government will not step back from the fight against those who would see Mexico broken and without a future, the president said in an event at the National Palace to commemorate the 204th anniversary of the birth of Benito Juárez…—-Speaking at a rally at the monument to Juárez in Mexico City, former presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said the federal government’s incapacity is to blame for the hundreds of people killed by organized crime in different parts of the country…—-PRI, PAN and PRD lawmakers agreed that the meeting set for Tuesday between U. S. and Mexican security cabinets must produce concrete results on coordination and joint responsibility in the fight against organized crime on their shared border…—-The Archdiocese of Mexico issued a call not to forget or fail to listen to claims of alleged sexual abuse by priests on minors, as Pope Benedict 16th has stated… In an editorial in the Desde la Fe, From the Faith, weekly, Mexico’s Catholic leaders said the church does not belong to priests, only to Christ, and that is why if men and women have committed faults they must pay for them…—-At the third mass wedding between gay and lesbian couples, after the law legalizing same sex marriages that went into effect on March 4, 29 same sex couples were married, 17 gay couples and 12 lesbian couples said “I do. ” —-More than 100,000 protesters, most of them Hispanic, gathered in Washington, on the esplanade connecting the Capitol to the White House to shout “Justice for all” as they demanded immigration reform in the United States…—-On a video message screened on large screens near the Capitol, U. S. President Barack Obama said that it is urgent that reforms to the immigration system be approved…—-And in Cuba, after recent skirmishes with angry mobs, the “Ladies in White” held another march to call for the release of political prisoners on the socialist island.

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