News Summary for November 21st, 2009
++ As he marked the 99th anniversary of the start of the Mexican Revolution President Felipe Calderón pleaded for dialogue between political and economic players in Mexico… He proposed that 2010 become the year of the fatherland and of profound and pacific change in Mexico.++ Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Mont agreed that the impulse to change sparked by the Mexican Revolution should help to strengthen processes to allow Mexico to grow economically and institutionally.++ Coparmex announced that it would in January present three proposals for state, fiscal and labor reform… The state reform program will include reelection for lawmakers and mayors as well as r

News Summary for November 18th, 2009
++ We got a budget for 2010!!!! Sort of…After a long session, the Chamber of Deputies approved the spending portion of the 2010 budget for the amount of 3.176 trillion pesos. The spending budget was passed with a 437-25 vote… It sets cutbacks for the federal government and increases funding for states, municipalities and agrarian programs. Farming was one the sectors that most benefited…. The amount allotted to foster agriculture was set at roughly 269 billion pesos, being more generous than the initial amount included in the original spending proposal from the Executive branch. In contrast, the Opportunities Program, a social program to fight extreme poverty with small

Tonight on Seguridad Total .... Ministry of Defense Anti-Explosive Unit..
Hoy en Seguridad Total visitaremos a la unidad anti-explosivos de la Secretaria de la Sedena. ¿Quién se dedica a desactivar bombas en México? No se puede perder esta edición de Seguridad Total todos los martes a las 23:30 hrs en Proyecto 40 (Canal 40 en el área urbana de la Ciudad de México y Sky y Cablevision 140)

News Summary for November 17th, 2009
++ Deputies were still grappling with the 2010 Spending Budget although sessions had still to be renewed…Late Sunday, the Budget Committee had given the go-ahead to the initial draft bill of the budget for 3.176 trillion pesos, nearly four billion pesos more than the original budget submitted by the Executive branch.++ Senate speaker Carlos Navarrete said that President Calderón might well exercise his veto power if the 2010 budget turns into “pirates’ treasure loot.” … He charged that PRI points of view have prevailed throughout the budget approval process…++ PAN senators’ leader Gustavo Madero rejected the view that the proposal to do awa

If you have a baby and you travel... You have to read this..I could not stop laughing..
Barfing baby makes fellow fliers cry for parachutesBY DAVE BARRY(This classic Dave Barry column was originally published July 22, 2001.)We set out with a sense of foreboding. If you ever feel a boding, and later on something bad happens, that was a foreboding.We were traveling from Miami to Minnesota, a state located near, or possibly inside, Canada. The reason we felt a boding was that we were carrying a live baby, and we had stupidly elected to travel by airplane.I think that, instead of making such a big deal about weapons, the airlines ought to start cracking down on babies. Ask the average airline passenger: "Would you rather sit n