Noticias de Hoy

++ The Chihuahua state Attorney General’s Office presented one of the suspects in the massacre of 16 people in Ciudad Juárez who confessed that he belonged to the Los Aztecas criminal gang, a cell of the Vicente Carrillo drug cartel… The suspect said that the reason for the massacre was to kill members of the Artistas Asesinos or Assassin Artists gang, belonging to the Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán drug cartel. ++ Speaking in Japan, President Felipe Calderón condemned the 16-person massacre in Ciudad Juárez and announced that he will shortly present a new comprehensive support strategy to help civil society to confront organized crime. He said that one of the theories in the case was that of a suspected rivalry among attackers and victims. Chihuahua State Governor José Reyes Baeza said the massacre of 16 persons in Ciudad Juárez will not go unpunished. The Chihuahua state Attorney General’s Office said that a ballistics report showed that at least seven people opened fire at the site of the massacre. ++ U. S. Intelligence Director Dennis Blair said that Mexico faces a tough test because of the onslaught of organized crime, but he ruled out that the drug cartels can destabilize Mexico. ++ Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Mont said no apology will be forthcoming to the Michoacán state officials arrested last year and released over the weekend, after a judge found there was insufficient evidence for prosecution on charges to organized crime links… Gómez Mont said that the release was because the judge found insufficient evidence, not because “their innocence has been proven. ”++ President Felipe Calderón referred to the issue of same-sex marriage during his trip to Japan saying he respected gay couples, and that the legal challenge by the Attorney General’s Office to the recent Mexico City legislation legalizing gay marriages was not politically motivated. Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said it was “useless” to deny federal intervention in an attempt to get cancel legal reforms allowing same sex marriages in Mexico City, regulations that will be implemented in March. ++ The Supreme Court ruled that the single rate Business Tax or IETU does not violate the constitution by banning deductions such as those allowed in the case of the Income Tax.

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