Noticias de Hoy

++ Isabel Miranda de Wallace said she favored the death penalty for kidnappers who murder their victims, so she said she was opposed to the Anti-Kidnapping draft bill submitted by the president in which 40 years’ of prison are proposed for kidnappers who kill their victims. Miranda de Wallace called on Congress to fulfill the pledge made to approve by April 30 the General Law of Protection for Kidnapping Victims. Speaking at an anti-kidnapping meting, the chairman of the Public Security Committee at the Chamber of Deputies, José Luis Ovando, suggested setting up a fund to deal with kidnapping crimes. ++ The U. S. Drug Enforcement Agency warned the U. S. Congress that if Washington abandons the battle against drug trafficking cartels in Mexico, this could lead to an even greater threat to national security in the United States. ++ A judge indicted the Bar Bar nightclub manager, Carlos Fernando Cázares Ocaña, “El Charly,” on charges of attempted homicide as an accomplice, in the case of soccer player Salvador Cabañas, who was shot in the head while he was at the night spot. The main suspect in the case remains at large. ++ PAN national leader César Nava, described PRI governors as “caciques” or old-time political bosses… On a tour of Veracruz, he said that PRI governments in that state have left unfulfilled promises and misery…++ Meanwhile, longtime PAN member, who had been in the party for 16 years, deputy Gerardo Buganza, announced his resignation from the party. . . Buganza sent a letter in which he expressed his irritation at the choice of Miguel Ángel Yunes as PAN candidate for governor of Veracruz… Yunes is a former member of the PRI. ++ At a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the launching of free textbooks in Mexican public schools, President Felipe Calderón acknowledged that the “great challenge facing Mexico” is quality education. On another topic, the president praised Mexicans for showing sympathy and raising funds to support for Chile, hit by an 8. 8 Richter scale earthquake…++ The Federal District government guaranteed that the amendment to the Civil Code allowing same sex marriages in Mexico City starting on March 4 will go ahead.

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