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News Summary for October 28th, 2010

++ An armed commando opened fire on a carwash in Tepic, Nayarit, killing 15 people and wounding another two. Ten of the 15 people killed were members of a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre called Alcance Victoria and had jobs at the carwash. The Attorney General’s Office launched an investigation in the case, without yet fully taking it on.

++ The Nuevo León Congress approved a law to establish a single command for police corporations in the cities that make up the Monterrey metropolitan area.

++ The Senate demanded of Deputy U.S. Secretary of State, James B. Steinberg, that his government control arms trafficking to Mexico and also accused the U.S. government of hypocrisy since on the one hand it stands against drug consumption and on the other it advocates legalization. Steinberg said that the United States would continue to enforce laws that ban the production and sale of illegal laws, regardless of whether California legalized marihuana.

++ The Federal District Attorney General’s Office presented four suspects, alleged members of the Los Pelones gang, who are accused of taking part in the murder of five members of a family in Santo Tomás Ajusco in Tlalpan borough… The crime apparently was a settling of scores among criminal gangs.

++ The Senate awarded the 2010 Belisario Domínguez medal to Luis H. Álvarez and also, after death, to deceased UNAM rector Javier Barros Sierra, who played such a dignified role in the 1968 student protests.

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