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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — A border state in northern Mexico has launched a campaign it hopes will be more effective than photos on milk cartons to help find missing women and children: It's using advertisements on tortilla wrappers.

At least three dozen tortilla shops have joined in the Chihuahua state campaign to print appeals for help on the thin paper wrappers that shopkeepers use to wrap up a pound or two of hot tortillas at a time.

"The disappearances in Juarez have to disappear," the ads read. They are accompanied by photos of "disappeared" people: a woman's bodiless clothing walks down a street appearing to hold a shopping bag; a little girl's shoes and socks stand on a curbside.

The wrappers include a phone number for reporting disappearances or sightings of missing people.

The campaign started this week, and has been welcomed by shopkeepers and customers in the violence-wracked border city of Ciudad Juarez, which is across from El Paso, Texas.

"The truth is a lot of people don't know about the missing young women — we are always the last to find out — so I think the governor had a good idea when he started this campaign to help families find missing people," said the owner of a Ciudad Juarez tortilla shop who did not want her identity revealed for fear of retaliation or extortion from the city's gangs.

Ciudad Juarez was hit by a series of eerily similar kidnap-killings of more than 100 mainly young women beginning in 1993. While those cases have tapered off, killings and disappearances continue.

A customer at the tortilla shop, who also didn't want her identity revealed, said the campaign could help.

"A lot of people don't have any way to watch TV or read the newspapers, they don't see the news, so this way they would at least know who to call or what to do in the case of a disappearance," she said.

Silvia Najera, spokeswoman for the Chihuahua state special prosecutor's office for crimes against women, said a total of 341 women had been officially reported missing since 1995. Of those, 316 have been found either dead or alive, while 25 cases remain open.

Women's rights activist Vicky Caraveo said she believes the women's killings of the 1990s and early 2000s haven't ended. Carveo said women matching the same profile of those earlier victims continue to disappear.

Mexico's Senate gave final approval Tuesday to a labor law overhaul that will allow outsourcing and part-time employment,

Trash, tons of it. With some 25 million people, greater Mexico City struggles every day with mountains of garbage, even more now that the main dump has been closed. Recycling hasn't caught on yet in the country, and some still keep up the old habit of throwing their trash in the street. So waste management has been a crisis in the capital for years.

But now, city officials – and younger, trendy Mexicans with a green thumb - are trying to change that.

On March 2012, the Mexico City Department of Environment launched a new program, a barter market - or "Mercado de Trueque" - in the heart of Chapultepec, the city's largest park. The first Sunday of every month, people can trade recyclables for fresh produce grown by local farmers. They can chat directly with farmers and growers, "count" the value of their plastic bottles, glass and cans, and be reminded of indigenous agriculture practices inherited from Pre-Columbian times.
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The initiative follows other green efforts launched by the city's leftist government, like a successful bike-sharing program and increased public transportation. While thousands of market-goers happily gather at dawn in a long a line that snakes through the park, some wish there were more markets of this kind held in different neighborhoods across the city, to meet growing demand.

The "Mercado de Trueque" only recycles a small fraction of the capital's daily waste. Still, it's an avant-garde model to be followed across the country and around the world. As its proud organizers say, "If a megalopolis like Mexico City – long infamous for its pollution levels – can achieve that, other cities can."

Eventually, the real success for the market would be if Mexicans keep and spread the good habit of recycling, with no incentive - food or plants - in exchange.

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The city of Acapulco, the tourist port located in southern Mexico, is in bankruptcy by filing a debt of 2,142 million pesos, warned Monday its mayor, Luis Walton Aburto, who asked the federal government bailout.

At a press conference in Mexico City, where he was backed by the leaders of the PRD, PT and Citizens Movement, and was transmitted in real time to a port hotel, the mayor said that not having the
support of the federation for January Acapulco City Hall will be collapsed and no resources for payroll and utilities.

Walton Aburto affirm financial failure threatens alike the situation of the municipal police and the payment of bonuses and fortnights to 8,500 employees

"Acapulco requires a bailout, is now in this financial mess by January or we will not have money to pay salaries, with a roster so outrageous, so we need the bailout because if not paralyzed the council," said.

Regarding the number of council workers, the payroll increased in a year-the last of the last administration of Manuel Anorve-than 7,500 to 8,500 employees, generating an annual expenditure of 1,150 million pesos
in payment of wages.

"Other municipalities with the same population size employs 4,000 employees so clear there will be cuts, but we need resources for settlements from whence we take to do so? 500 police alone have to settle for not passing the tests. Acapulco needs of the federation, "the mayor said"

Debt that exceeds 2,000 pesos municipality of Acapulco is divided into blocks: running costs for fuel and utilities for 357.7 million pesos, public debt of 423.7 million pesos, withholding payment credits and ISSSTE workers Infonavit for 256.6 million pesos.

And misuse of federal resources branch 33, which generates a financial loss, for 301 million pesos.

Also, a financial debt of the municipality of Acapulco 423.8 million pesos.

The municipality also faces 211 labor lawsuits in progress, with a total debt of 270 billion pesos.

"The irresponsible handling of the past administration gives us a debt of 2,142 million pesos," the Secretary of Planning and Economic Development, Carlos Alvarez.

National leaders of the PRD, PT and Citizens Movement gave their political support Aburto Walton.

Jesus Zambrano, PRD urged to clarify the situation and draw directly responsible to face justice, and that he said the beds of the three parties will monitor the planned budget for 2013 to Acapulco.

Former mayor disclaims bankruptcy

The former mayor of Acapulco and now the PRI federal deputy, Manuel Anorve Banos, disavowed responsibility for the "failure" of this tourist destination and financial debt by 2, 142 million pesos.

As stated, Manuel Anorve in a statement, the information provided by the current municipal government Acapulco offers data "without reliable information is processed from a government accounting system, which in principle is a very irresponsible."

He insisted that the figures provided by the Secretary of Planning and Economic Development of Acapulco, Carlos Alvarez Reyes, are unreliable and do not stem from any governmental system.

In fact, the former mayor stressed that the debt he received from the previous administration of Felix Salgado Macedonio PRD amounted to 919 million pesos, not 396 million dollars as noted.

"The debt that the government inherited Salgado Macedonio, my administration, was 919 million pesos. The silver lining is that now, recognize that left the PRD government debt. Earlier this debt had refused "defended, Añorve Baths.

The congressman now said in his favor that Superior Audit of the Federation and the Auditor General's audit to maintain a permanent public accounts, which were delivered in a timely manner.

"The accounts were delivered complete, accurate and timely manner, transparency and accountability is a constitutional obligation for all governments and the national audit are to review and determine the right exercise or abuse of public resources," said former PRI mayor.

As for Manuel Anorve the accusation of "property damage or misuse of federal resources branch 33" is a "serious remark."

"Acapulco work and deserves respect, deserves to be talked with the truth. In more than 40 days, have neglected the problems of insecurity and public services, by finding reflectors and multiplication of lamentation, a township project aims to "disaster" as textually expressed, when what is needed , is a permanent work in favor of the municipality.

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Hundreds of tapatíos used this service Monday police patrols and fire roads to get to work and school, before the work stoppage carried out unionized drivers of public transport in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, according to Notimex.

Drivers of some 6,000 units of public transport stopped work to demand an increase of 1.20 pesos to 1.60 pesos receiving commission for every ticket whose value is 6 pesos per trip, told CNNMéxico, Odin Padilla, spokesman for the Ministry of Transportation in Jalisco.

He added that representatives of carriers reached an agreement with state authorities to end the strike from tomorrow and make trading desks that will start next Friday in which also participate dealerships units.

Three years ago pubic transport dealers asked the state government increased 6-7 pesos in public transportation fares, authorization was suspended by the State Administrative Tribunal (EAT), an argument that owners have used the units for too slow to increase fees for drivers, according to Padilla.

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Costa Rica's President Laura Chinchilla gestures at a news conference during the inauguration of the 10th Mexico Business Summit in Queretaro November 11, 2012. The summit will be held until November 13.

By presenting a number of anomalies and inconsistencies  in the project, which constitute serious violations of the Rules of Construction and Urban Development Plan of the municipality,

Secretary of the Interior Francisco Blake Mora was the point man in Mexico's deadly war on organized crime, seen by many as the embodiment of the government's determination to battle the narcotics trade despite a soaring death toll.

Blake Mora died at 45 on Friday with seven other officials in a helicopter crash on the way to a prosecutors' meeting.

He made his name cracking down on drug cartel violence in his home state of Baja California by forging close cooperation between military and civilian law-enforcement officials.

He tirelessly promoted the same strategy as President Felipe Calderon's No. 2, the top policy official in Mexico's all-out push against drug traffickers and corruption.

Blake Mora also led the push to clean up Mexico's notoriously corrupt state and local police forces.

"We're trying to establish a justice system that both prevents criminal impunity and responds to the needs of society and its demands for social justice," he said at a meeting of government officials this year.

The man known to friends and colleagues as "Blake" was, "above all, a great Mexican who profoundly loved his homeland until the last moment of his life," a visibly moved Calderon said in an address to the nation, pausing several times to compose himself before continuing.

"Today Mexico has lost a great patriot ... and I've lost a dear friend", the president said.

The secretary of the interior is second only to the president in authority and coordinates domestic policy, including security, human rights, migration and the president's relation with the legislature and opposition parties.

Blake Mora frequently traveled to violence-torn cities for meetings with besieged state and local security officials, promising to step up the presence of troops and federal police in violent areas, and not leave until drug gang members there were caught.

"Organized crime, in its desperation, resorts to committing atrocities that we can't and shouldn't tolerate as a government and as a society," Blake Mora said after investigators found more than 100 bodies in pits near the U.S. border.

He later announced a five-point initiative to investigate the crimes and to increase security, including the federal monitoring of buses such as those used by the migrant victims.

Blake Mora also oversaw the government's response to natural disasters like the massive oil pipeline disaster that laid waste to parts of the central city of San Martin Texmelucan last year, killing at least 28 people.

He led the creation of a new national identity card for youths under 18, with modern features including digitalized fingerprints and iris images, to prevent criminals from using false IDs.

Blake Mora came of age at a place and moment of enormous change in Mexico's politics. He worked for the conservative National Action Party, or PAN, when it won the governorship of Baja California in 1989, the first time an opposition party victory had been recognized in Mexico since 1929.

Many analysts believe President Carlos Salinas de Gortari recognized that victory in part to calm allegations that his own 1988 election as the candidate of the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party had been fraudulent.

"Starting in his youth, he involved himself in the fight for change in Mexico through the National Action Party," Calderon said.

Trained as a lawyer, Blake Mora first took political office in the mid-1990s as an official in his native Tijuana. He served as a federal congressman for Calderon's PAN from 2000 to 2003 and as a local legislator in the northern state of Baja California from 2004 to 2007.

In November 2007, he was named interior secretary for Baja California, rising in July 2010 to the national position he held until his death.

Calderon lost another interior secretary, Juan Camilo Mourino, in a plane crash in Mexico City in November 2008.

Blake Mora's last posting on Twitter remembered Mourino as "a person who was working to build a better Mexico."

Enrique Mendez Juarez, PAN party head for Tijuana, was a childhood friend of Blake Mora's, playing baseball with him as teenagers in their working-class neighborhood before both became youth activists for the party.

After Blake Mora gained high office, "I never noticed the change, of talking with a bureaucrat, he always treated me like a friend," Mendez said. "I remember him as very hard-working, serious, formal, intelligent and very able."

Government officials said Calderon met with Blake Mora's widow, Gloria Cosio, and their son, 4, and daughter, 7, on Friday. He is also survived by his mother and two brothers.

"This is very unfortunate," said Sinaloa Congressman Manuel Clouthier, whose own father, a popular PAN politician, died in a still-unexplained highway accident in 1989. "There are many coincidences because now we have two interior ministers (lost) in one presidential term ... Who knows if we'll ever really know what happened."

Blake Mora's funeral was scheduled for Saturday.

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Mexico should legalize the export of marijuana after voters in two U.S.

Employers in Mexico are required by law, to give employees a Christmas bonus.

Many speech and demagoguery, but there is not support for people with disabilities.

Have just this week, an informal meeting of people with disabilities, long speech, demagoguery, good will, but people need is marginalized.

At this meeting Ivan Applegate, founder of movement in defense of disabled people, synthesized these meetings are held every three years and always full of good will, but little has been achieved in this area.

Building three orders of government federal, state and municipal, settled and this location, lack of 100% support for the disabled.

Clear examples are the federal and state agencies in Puerto Vallarta located in buildings or properties without adjustments

The building of the town hall in the center, does not have the minimum of help.

Is constant over the weeks, by general note, as the elderly people, who have crutches, walking with a cane, with small children and wheelchair users, without the assistance necessary.

This time, one of the indigenous leaders in Puerto Vallarta, who years ago had an accident and was paralyzed confined to a wheelchair has difficulty moving to this part of the city.

Today is embedded Gomez again in the town hall now Citizens Movement who said the Indians, at least the commitments agreed to assist people with disabilities.

The Indians complain that Puerto Vallarta is touted as a premier destination world, but has a culture and diapers depending on disability support.

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