Noticias de Hoy

*Chihuahua governor José Reyes Baeza formally took steps to shift powers for all three levels of state government to Ciudad Juárez in a stunning move to address spiraling violence in the border city and show solidarity with the citizens of Ciudad Juárez, facing the onslaught of drug-related crime… Chihuahua Governor José Reyes Baeza called on President Felipe Calderón to travel to Ciudad Juárez just like he has toured the State of Mexico and Michoacán in view of recent damages caused by heavy rains and flooding… * Meanwhile Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Mont was set to travel to Ciudad Juárez to report on the government’s strategic plan to face violence there… * Authorities presented another alleged suspect in the Villas de Salvárcar massacre last weekend in which 15 youths were killed…Suspect Israel Arzate Meléndez, alias ‘El Country’ or ‘El 24,’ told authorities that on the day of the massacre the target was a member of the Assassin Artists’ gang but in the end they were told just to open fire on everyone…*Turning to other news, President Felipe Calderón toured Valle de Chalco municipality to get a first-hand idea of the extent of damage there after the Canal de la Compañía underground sewage network flooded when heavy rains lashed the region last weekend… Calderón listened to demands from citizens affected by the flooding… * The Interior Secretariat issued an emergency decree declaring a Natural Disaster in Ecatepec, Nezahualcóyotl and Valle de Chalco Solidaridad. . . A natural disaster was also declared in four boroughs in the Federal District that were badly affected by the rains among them: Gustavo A. Madero, Iztacalco, Venustiano Carranza and Iztapalapa. . . * The number of people who died in heavy rains in Michoacán rose to 19… An emergency was declared in Angangueo, Tuxpan, Tiquicheo, Tuzantla and Ocampo. *Relatives and friends of Luis Colosio Fernández, father of murdered PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, paid their final respects over the weekend in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora… Luis Colosio Fernández died Saturday at the age of 86 from complications from pneumonia…—-*Gasoline and diesel fuel prices rose again this weekend, the second time this year… Magna gasoline increased by 8 cents, rising to 7. 96 pesos per liter, while Premium increased by 4 cents per liter to 9. 70 pesos per liter. . . Diesel increased by eight cents to reach 8. 32 pesos per liter. . .

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