The System for the Integral Family Development (DIF) Jalisco, the Ministry of Health and the Jalisco Institute of Women began this morning a major campaign against breast cancer in the state, which last year had a thousand 588 detections, 477 of which ended in death, since unfortunately 70 percent of the cases are diagnosed at an advanced stage.

On the framework of the International Day against Breast Cancer to be commemorated on October 19, this Monday, the president of the State DIF, Lorena Jassibe Arriaga de Sandoval opened five mobile mammography units that provide free care to the population in different parts of the metropolitan area.

"With these awareness campaigns that began since early October with the campaign 'Very earnestly close to your heart' (‘Muy a pecho cerca de tu corazón’) what we want is for us women, to become aware that if we detect it early, we have a high chance of this not reaching fatal consequences", said the president of the State DIF.

Arriaga de Sandoval said that Jalisco wants women to be healthy, to lose their fear of self-exploration and medical care, and to urge their families to do just as much.

"If us women have won many battles, we have won the right to vote, we have earned the right to study, we have gained many things that we have proposed ourselves, then we believe that we can win this fight against cancer and be responsible with our health", she said.

The state health secretary, Jaime Agustín González Álvarez, said that these mobile mammography units have special features, because the equipment they have is digital and the side effect "is less invasive, with less radiation, faster, safer and we can send the image to a care center where the diagnosis can be made quickly".

Subsequently, as part of the Breast Cancer Prevention, the president of the care organism initiated the operation Free Mammography Mobile Unit that will be in service from October 14 to 18 in the premises of the State DIF, located in Alcalde 1220.

"I think that we should all go, because it only costs us a moment and it is a moment that can save us. I come only for prevention, I have no discomfort or anything, but every year I think of doing it for prevention", said Mirna Vázquez, who waited her turn to be examined.

The Free Mammography Mobile Unit of the State Ministry of Health will perform 70 tests per day. The requirements to be examined are to be between 40 and 69 years of age, not to have had a mammogram in a period of less than a year, to come shaved, without body lotion, perfume or deodorant and go in between 11:00 and 15:00 hours.

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[readon1 url="http://notivallarta.com/2013/10/14/unen-esfuerzos-contra-el-cancer-de-mama-en-jalisco/"]Source: NotiVallarta Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]

social-network-promotionIt has a greater visual appeal and more links to make hotel reservations

At least a hundred people responded to the call of the Tourism Trust Fund (Fidetur) of the city and yesterday in the afternoon "they chatted and twitted" in the corridors of City Hall of Puerto Vallarta doing promotion in social networks within the framework of the presentation of the new website of the city (www.visitapuertovallarta.com), which was formally launched with this event.

In the event held yesterday, for several hours the "twitters" managed to position the hashtag called # visitapuertovallarta in first place for the Early and Late trends, which means a major media impact in a global scale, the intent, said the tourism authorities is to keep alive in the minds of the users of social networks the presence of Puerto Vallarta, "this arouses the curiosity of travelers and you can even make online reservations".

The director of the Tourism Trust Fund, Guillermo Ohem, considered it very important to renew the image of the city's website, since that way it remains fresh, with an innovative appearance, attractive and especially with advanced technology that allows to have links to a large number of hotels, restaurants, travel agencies, tour operators and a large number of service providers.
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Starting at 5 pm began the concentration of social network users, who with their lap tops, smart phones and other devices that can connect to the network, immediately got to know the new official website of the city to make "likes", in a way that through facebook and twitter there began to be a heavy promotional traffic of Puerto Vallarta; the invitation was to post messages and positive images of this tourist destination, to position it as a leading topic in social networks.

For his part, hotelier Marcelo Alcaraz, reported at about 6:30 pm that the Visitapuertovallarta hashtag had already placed in the top of the trends in Mexico, representing a large number of followers and a solid promotion of the city; he stressed that with recent applications of smart phones, tablets and lap tops it will be possible to make online reservations, make payments for certain activities in the city, and thus facilitate the arrival of visitors.

"Today from a smartphone or tablet a person in Los Angeles or New York, can at this time, make a reservation for airplane tickets, lodging, tours, car rentals and a lot of services through his smart phone or tablet. For this reason, having a very attractive page and a number of cutting-edge applications puts us in competition with global destinations".

[readon1 url="http://vallartaopina.net/2013/09/26/podran-los-turistas-reservar-mediante-nueva-pagina-web"]Source: Vallarta Opina Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]

women-heads-households"In Jalisco they are fighting women, dedicated women who stop at nothing, but they are given the support, tools are provided, they can then find a full development in this community," said the Governor of the State of Jalisco, Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz, when providing resources to female heads of households and inaugurating the training session for them at Casa Jalisco.

The training that the beneficiaries of this program will receive is focused on integrating into the labor market so that they can raise their family. Among the expositions of this conference there will be the ones given by the teacher Dolores Franco, national coordinator of UN Habitat, and the teacher Magdalena García, also a consultant for this international organization for sustainable human settlements.

In terms of financial support some beneficiaries will receive 11 thousand 657 pesos a year to start a business to improve their income, while others will receive 972 pesos a month, which may be used in day care spending or sustenance.

Sandoval Díaz called on those beneficiaries who can now leave their children in day care centers to train themselves so that they can eventually start their own business, which will enable them to become self-sufficient and contribute to the development of their communities. He added that his government would possibly offer a low-interest loan support so that those who are interested can successfully launch a productive project.

"If the tools are brought to you, the support and the inputs, then you can find opportunities, alternatives, and you can have a development and start growing, you can inherit and give a better future to your children", said the state governor.

Sandoval Diaz also expressed the willingness of his administration so that next year the resources for the use of this program become triple, which currently has a budget of 50 million pesos.

The Governor took the opportunity to mention the 200 women that are currently trained to be traffic agents, who are going to be responsible for arresting people who drive while drunk at night, "because we know that women have always been synonymous of income, work, honesty, loyalty and above all, are never going to bow to anything or anyone".

On the issue of gender violence, he recalled that 40 percent of Jalisco has suffered some form of aggression, therefore he reaffirmed his commitment to promoting comprehensive justice to protect women of the entity.

The Governor was joined on the presidium by the Secretary of Development and Social Integration, Salvador Rizo Castelo, the president of DIF Jalisco, Lorena Jassibe Arriaga de Sandoval; UN Coordinator of Habitat Mexico, Dolores Franco Delgado, the president of the Jalisco Institute of Women, Mariana Fernández Ramírez; the deputy chairman of the Human Development Commission of the State Congress, Bertha Yolanda Rodríguez Ramírez and the mayor of Guadalajara, Ramiro Hernández García.

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More than 6 thousand families have benefited through the brigade Helping You Moves Us (Ayudarte nos Mueve), with the services offered by the System for Integral Family Development (DIF) of Puerto Vallarta, as it was announced by the president of the assistance agency, Magaly Fregoso Ortiz.

In this way, more than 35 colonies have been visited, where they offer more than 30 services free of charge, of which the most popular are social work, haircuts, psychology, nutrition and legal services.

In her message, the president of the Municipal DIF stressed that the priority is to bring the services free of charge to the most vulnerable, but mostly address the truly urgent cases.

This Tuesday, the brigade visited the colony Niños Héroes of the delegation Ixtapa, where dozens of people were cared for and were given a quality service in a warm manner from the staff of the institution.

According to the coordinator of Helping You Moves Us, Juan Pablo Vasquez, the next brigade will be on Tuesday October first in the main square of the colony Loma Bonita.

Besides the services of the DIF system, the Animal Collection Center for pet vaccinations, the City Council against AIDS (Comusida), the Municipal Council for Disability (Comudis) and staff of the Ministry of Health are attending, and through lectures they will guide the general public about preventive care.

It should be mentioned that the aldermen Luis Ernesto Munguía, Doris Ponce and Guadalupe Anaya, attended the brigade in order to know by first hand if there were people affected by the recent rains.

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heroic-rescueThe incident took place on Wednesday afternoon at 17:30 when Dan Osvaldo, a 9-year-old from the Benito Juarez colony, was having fun at the mouth of the Cuale River

A tourism police officer saved a 9 year old from drowning, who had been swept by the current, while having fun at the mouth of the Cuale River.
The incident took place on Wednesday afternoon at 17:30 when Dan Osvaldo, a nine year old child, resident of the Benito Juarez colony, was having fun at the mouth of the Cuale River along with his mother, when suddenly the little one went after his toys towards the sea and the current carried him away.
When the mother saw what was happening she started to scream for help and some bathers ran looking for a lifeguard, but on the way they met a Tourism Police officer, who immediately jumped into the sea.
The officer was José Daniel Hernández Becerra, who swam about 300 meters to where the child was, who by that time was already unconscious, and he began dragging him until he requested the assistance of the vessel "Yiyo" that was nearby and boarded it to bring him into the dock Solidaridad.
On the way the police officer gave the child CPR until he managed to make him react and by the time they got to the dock, the lifeguards were waiting in an ambulance and the Red Cross paramedics who approached him took him to get medical care.
For his part, the officer José Daniel Hernández Becerra who was injured on his right foot, was treated by Firefighter paramedics, without the need to transfer him to a hospital.

[readon1 url="http://vallartaopina.net/2013/09/26/heroico-rescate-de-un-nino-que-se-ahogaba-en-el-mar"]Source: Vallarta Opina Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]

profeco-fineThe Federal Consumer Protection Bureau (Profeco) imposed a penalty of two million pesos to the company Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex) for misleading advertising of its Broadband "Infinitum Móvil" services.
In response to a complaint received, the agency revised the campaign "Telmex offers 3 Mbps of internet broadband for $ 149.00 per month (including taxes), placing it among the cheapest in the world", and found that the promotion was conditional on the procurement of other services.
The Profeco informed in a statement that with this advertising, Telmex incurred in a violation of Article 32 of the Federal Consumer Protection Law, which prompted the agency to issue an administrative decision imposing a fine in the amount of two million pesos.
In this regard, Profeco reiterated its commitment to protect the rights and the interests of consumers, as well as to require from suppliers their full compliance of the law.
Meanwhile, the owner of the Profeco, Alfredo Castillo Cervantes said in his Twitter account that the fine will subject the company owned by Carlos Slim and added that "advertising requires the supplier to honor what is offered".
Days ago, the official stated that the sole purpose of Profeco is to enforce the law in favor of consumers.
In recent weeks, the agency has imposed sanctions on companies like Inova, McDonald's, Genomma Lab, Bimbo, as well as restaurants, bars, taxi sites, hotels, car rental agencies, airlines and lessors.

 

[readon1 url="http://eleconomista.com.mx/industrias/2013/08/27/profeco-multa-telmex-2-mdp"]Source: EL ECONOMISTA Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]

dengueThe high risk season is coming
Heavy rains are predicted, along with humidity, accumulation of old kitchenware, pottery and tires, besides the fact that people do little to prevent this.


Puerto Vallarta Jalisco News.- The sate government of Jalisco has petitioned the city hall of Puerto Vallarta, more coordinated tasks, so that together they can perform preventive work to eliminate the dengue fever, as the high risk season is coming.

This is what Candelaria Villanueva the councilor of Movimiento Ciudadano, president of the Health commission, commented to the media.

A requisition was handed over to this government by the government of Jalisco, where the Health Ministry petitions the mayor and to the 8th Health Jurisdiction, for the coordination of works and actions in favor of the citizens.

This document is signed by the Health minister, Jaime Agustín González Álvarez, in which he hands over to the local authorities, actions to confront the rainy season and prevent dengue fever.

Dengue fever is a sickness transmitted by the mosquito Aedes Aegypti which reproduces itself in containers filled with rain water.

It is a viral infection that can endanger the lives of people, besides being a public health issue.

The document shows that by the closing of the year 2012, four serotypes of the virus were identified as being in circulation.

Condition which increases the risk of a greater amount of severe and non severe dengue cases.

With cooperation, during the next rainy season it is necessary to take the following preventive measures:


• Carefully control the physical sources, wash, mop, turn over, throw away or recycle any container which accumulates water in houses, offices, parks, gardens and graveyards.

• Solicit all of the commercial businesses, especially those of groceries and tires, to have control over recipients.

• Authorize garbage trucks to accept tires and recipients that could function as mosquito hatcheries.

• Warn the citizens about the risk that dengue represents to the health and promote organized participation from the community.

• Actively participate with the regional and local health authorities, in all of the actions against this disease.


earmexicoMEXICO CITY — A powerful two-punch earthquake shook western Mexico early Sunday, knocking out electricity and cellular phone service in parts of this sprawling capital. There were no immediate reports of serious damage or fatalities.

Initial readings put the quake at a magnitude of 5.9 at around 12:30 a.m., with the epicenter about 90 miles south of Mexico City in the northern part of Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located.

It was felt with marked strength in Mexico City, swaying major apartment buildings, hotels and skyscrapers. Residents scooted from their homes, some in pajamas, or filed out of late-night bars and restaurants. Many remained in the streets long after the quake ended, bracing for aftershocks.

The shaking began gently, paused, then gave a good rattling to buildings in much of the capital.

Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera, whose inspectors immediately took to flight in helicopters and fanned out through city streets, said there were no reports of serious damage but that several neighborhoods were without electricity. Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong also said there were no reports of damage at the national level.

Mexico is accustomed to such quakes, and a fairly strict system of checks and controls whips into place at the first sign of serious shaking. In 1985, parts of the Mexican capital were destroyed and at least 10,000 people were killed in a devastating quake.

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cartolandia2In a quiet manner, about 60 families were removed from the premises.

Authorities from the municipal, state and federal government participated in the eviction without registering any incidents.

Puerto Vallarta Jalisco News.- Around 60 families were evicted from the premise known as "cardboardland" in the Ixtapa neighborhood, this was decided on the basis of a resolution given by the State Disaster Prevention Dept. (Protección Civil), as the zone is considered a high risk area.

With respect to this, the mayor Trinidad López Rivas, head of the State Disaster Prevention Dept. of Jalisco, said that in total coordination with the security personnel of the three levels of government, steps were taken to remove these people from the zone.

López Rivas pointed out that around 400 officers participated, who came from the Department of Public Safety, the State Disaster Prevention Dept., the Federal Police, Marines and officers from the Mexican Army.

At the same time, he said, it was the last month of February when we detected a large amount of households that were very near the gas company that is located near that neighborhood, thus he said, "we are starting to work more closely with families.

Consequently after the corresponding analysis, it was determined that it is not feasible for those families to inhabit that place, as he insisted that it is very risky to be so near the gas company.

With respect to the human rights of these evicted families, he assured that the steps taken for their eviction didn't violate these rights but on the contrary, since this procedure started there were attempts to dialogue with the families, inviting them to move out, and some of them did, he assured.

However, he recognized that in these types of circumstances there are different points of view and there will always be people who think and consider that the human rights of the families weren't respected, but despite that he said "nobody rallied against us".

In this context, López Rivas declared that despite the fact that the total number of families went up to 60, there were other households that weren't occupied as there were only people there on weekends.

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Approximately 250 merchants and tour guides gathered in the drawing room of the Pullmantur naval terminal, expressed their rejection towards the proposal of corporate organisms for the port to function as a "Naval bridge between Puerto Vallarta and Cabo San Lucas", as it operated in the 70s.

Led by Cecilio Gutiérrez Escobedo and by the municipal director of Tourism, Carlos Gerard, the tourism service providers of the naval terminal, rejected what they considered the return of the "ferry", for this would mean a transformation of the tourism purpose of Puerto Vallarta.

Furthermore, said Carlos Gerard, Puerto Vallarta lacks the necessary infrastructure, such as the warehouses and the direct highways, as there are in Manzanillo and Mazatlán, therefore tourism service providers, taxi drivers, tour guides, merchants, tour operators, besides tour service providers in general "are opposed to changing the purpose of the tourism port to one of cargo and ferry, due to the damage to the environment, economy and society.

Carlos Gerard, observed that Puerto Vallarta can't compete with toll ports such as Manzanillo or Mazatlán, Topolobampo, Guaymas or La Paz, whose calling has been to be of cargo or of ferry. If this proposal was followed, the destiny would have "a very big setback".

He informed to all of those present, that in order for the authorities of SCT to proceed to modernize docks 2 and 3, there needed to be more demand and an increase in arrivals to Puerto Vallarta between 2002 and 2007.

Even to make the investment, they requested recommendations and suggestions to the shipping companies, to the FCA which is the Caribbean Cruise Association, which is the company that brings cruises to Puerto Vallarta. That is why the investment was justified.

In consequence, he said, in order to change the calling of the port, first there needs to be studies and then ask the freighters, the importers or exporters, if it is affordable and if it will let us compete against Manzanillo and Mazatlán, “because they do have a direct highway to Guadalajara, they do have an infrastructure, they do have a customs sistem and billions of pesos of investment, so that the port can have the purpose which it has.

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Abrahan Ibarra Ibarra, president of Pacific Guides, said that cruise tourism doesn't generate only 4 percent of tourism revenue, but that it goes up to almost 50 percent of the income of Puerto Vallarta, and from this concept comes the direct livelihood of more than 2 thousand families.

Joel Martínez Hernández, leader of the merchants of the crafts market of the naval terminal, recognized that in 30 years there have been high seasons, medium and low, but none has been as low as the present one.

Despite that, he said that he knew a time when the ferry worked and the merchants of the crafts market didn't get any business from that mode of transport.

Cecilio Gutiérrez Escobedo, from his behalf, declared that besides lacking highways and the necessary infrastructure, the port also lacks warehouses and all that is necessary for the functioning of those type of industries.

The tour guides, craft merchants, downtown merchants, restaurateurs and tour operators in general, decided yesterday to send a letter to Aristóteles Sandoval, and to President Enrique Peña Nieto, so that the tourism purpose of Puerto Vallarta is reinforced and they make the necessary investments in promotion, to attract more cruise tourists, so that this industry is reborn.

The signing leaders of the letter exposed that it is clear that the proposal to retake the ferry to Puerto Vallarta, comes from corporate organisms.

THE DATA:

The tour guides, craft merchants, downtown merchants, restaurateurs and tour operators in general, decided yesterday to send a letter to the governor, Aristóteles Sandoval, and to the President Enrique Peña Nieto.

[readon1 url="http://vallartaopina.net/2013/06/12/guias-y-comerciantes-locales-rechazan-propuesta-del-ferry"]Source: Vallarta Opina - Translated by: Rene Tripp[/readon1]

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — New President Enrique Pena Nieto has been fast out of the blocks in attacking some of Mexico's toughest issues in a country often stymied by monopolies and corruption.

He arrested the most powerful woman in Mexico, leader of the largest union in Latin America, on allegations of corruption that previous presidents saw but were too compromised to tackle. He is taking on the richest man in the world, Carlos Slim, and pledges to bring diversity to a television industry dominated by the head of the largest network in Latin America, a scion of one of Mexico's leading families.

At one time all three were key allies of Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled for 71 years with a combination of coercion and corruption before being voted out of office in 2000. Now, Pena Nieto is declaring that there are no more sacred cows.

The moves have built momentum behind what could be his most dramatic and difficult reform — modernizing and drawing foreign and private capital to the behemoth state oil company, a long sacrosanct but increasingly inefficient pillar of the Mexican economy. On Sunday, at a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the nationalization of the Mexican oil business, Pena Nieto said again that he will transform Petroleos Mexicanos. The longtime head of the Pemex union, who had been expected by many to fight any changes but has been the subject of questions about unexplained family wealth, pledged his support.

Pena Nieto says his plan will make Mexico more democratic and competitive in the world economy, and his drive for reform is fueling international confidence about Mexico. Rating company Standard and Poor's raised the country's long-term sovereign credit rating from "stable" to "positive" last week, citing optimism about the government's ability to carry out structural changes. The Mexican peso is stronger against the dollar than it's been in a year and a half.

But some analysts warn against mistaking style for substance and making early declarations of victory against entrenched powers built up by the very party that now says it's trying to bring them to heel. It will take many months, in some cases years, before Pena Nieto's reform agenda becomes law and produces its first results, plenty of time for big promises to be derailed by special interests, institutional inertia and the PRI's old guard.

"It's quite remarkable to me that people are assuming that somehow we're at a new stage in political or institutional or economic development in Mexico," said John Ackerman, a law professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a visiting scholar at American University in Washington. "Increased competition is great. But the central problem that's holding back Mexico's economic development is the concentration of political and economic power at the top, and with Pena Nieto we see more of this, we see a consolidation of this in fact."

While Pena Nieto has pledged to drive down violence, he has made few changes to Mexico's security policy. There has been no credible sign of a slowdown in the waves of killings that have turned many states into battlegrounds. The most significant change, critics say, has been a clampdown on official information about crime, part of a government-wide attempt to refocus national and international attention onto Mexico's economy.

The day before his Dec. 1 swearing-in, Pena Nieto and his team got the three main political parties to sign a 94-point national legislative agenda known as the Pact for Mexico that promises everything from efficient harvesting of rainwater to opening Mexico's behemoth state oil company to private and foreign investment. The Pact for Mexico was dismissed as theatrics by some observers at the time, but it has become clear Pena Nieto intends to push for every promise to become law as quickly as possible.

Addressing his Cabinet and hundreds of dignitaries at a celebration of his first 100 days, Pena Nieto jubilantly pledged to maintain the breakneck tempo.

"The intensity won't be passing. The pace of work will keep up. We didn't come just to govern, but to transform," he declared.

The new president pushed through the most sweeping education overhaul in seven decades, a potentially far-reaching reengineering of Mexico's deeply dysfunctional education system that calls for merit-based teacher hiring and promotion to replace a system in which union domination meant jobs were inherited and sold.

Teachers' union head Elba Esther Gordillo, one of the most powerful-yet-reviled people in Mexico, had pledged to fight the plan that passed Feb. 25, but then was arrested the next day on charges that she embezzled $160 million.

Gordillo rose to her influential position thanks to earlier PRI leaders, although she had strained those ties by supporting other parties in recent years.

Last week, Pena Nieto put forward a set of constitutional and legal changes that he pledged will drive down some of the world's highest cellphone prices and bring programming choice to a country almost entirely dominated by two television magnates.

The largest broadcaster, Televisa, long has been seen as a staunch ally of the PRI. Slim helped build his fortune when he bought Mexico's failing national telephone company at a bargain-basement price from a PRI government. Slim's Telmex controls 80 percent of Mexican landlines and 70 percent of the mobile-phone market. Emilio Azcarraga's Televisa has 70 percent of the broadcast TV market and more than 45 percent of cable television.

Pena Nieto has shown "that yes, he has the capacity to take decisions like arresting Elba Esther Gordillo, difficult decisions that require strength," said Jose Antonio Crespo, a historian and researcher at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching in Mexico City. "These are good signs that's he's willing to get into serious reforms, along with the opposition."

The telecommunications reform has been enthusiastically received by most economic experts and civil-society groups in the week since its introduction, with near unanimous praise of its toughening of the Mexican regulatory system. But many say it would only make it easier for Mexico's existing tycoons to enter each other's markets — not for new players.

And it's far from clear when the president's education revamp will result in real change in the classrooms.

Pena Nieto has made other changes that haven't drawn the fanfare, but have potentially far-reaching consequences for the power of the president, a once-imperial role during PRI rule that was weakened after the National Action Party won the presidency 12 years ago and ushered in a more democratic Mexico.

He persuaded the PRI to rewrite its rules this month, incorporating the president into the party's top leadership after years of nominal separation between the party and the government. The move will assure party fealty to the presidential agenda, avoiding the internal splits that weakened the PRI in the past, analysts said.

Providing another potential stick for Pena Nieto, Congress stripped lawmakers and other public servants of their longstanding immunity from prosecution, leaving only the president with total legal protection.

For some observers, Pena Nieto's first days are reminiscent of the splashy starts of other PRI presidents such as Carlos Salinas Gortari, who took office in 1988 and undertook a dramatic series of reforms but left office amid a devastating economic collapse fueled by overspending and budget mismanagement.

"This style is a way of saying, 'I've arrived, I'm a different president, I'm new,'" said Jesus Silva-Herzog Marquez, a political science professor at the National Autonomous Technical Institute of Mexico. "It's an assertion of power, a determination to change the rules."

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LOCAL - The tourists who come to enjoy the city for the long weekend,
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Service providers and city traders expect an increase in sales of between 30 and 40 percent, during the second weekend throughout this 2013 that runs from 15 to 18 March, giving way to an economic recovery is complete until after the Easter holiday season. Although most people are expecting the Easter holidays to hang-out to other sites or to enjoy the tourist attractions are located in the Bahia de Banderas, hoteliers, retailers and service providers are hopeful this long weekend bring good sales and good profits therefore.

ARRIVAL OF FAMILIES, COUPLES AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT RISES

For now have come to the city and region many young people, couples and some families to enjoy a few days on the beach before the arrival of spring exploiting this lon weekend

This has been achieved because besides being long weekend, is given together with payment of the fortnight for some workers, so expect to increase their sales by up to 40 percent, especially those devoted to food and owners of bars and nightclubs.

Even though this year has been little economic recovery that has taken over this long weekend, this weekend expected to increase, although it will be in the Easter holidays when they have the greatest economic rebound, the expect a large number of visitors, mainly from Guadalajara, Tepic, Mexico City and Mexico State.

The holidays weekend have always generated a significant economic benefit to the city, so we are confident that this will be no exception and achieve significant gains, said the president of the local Chamber of Commerce, Martin Ontiveros Puebla.

Like other colleagues in the tourism sector, the downtown merchants agreed to mention that this is only the preamble of what is expected for the period of Easter holiday, "we hope to have good sales during the long weekend, be completed until March 18, and follow the same line to finish the holiday, so that it can generate significant economic recovery, "they said.

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schoolYear after year, the British American School students made the Cultural Week, an event showing their creativity and talent, work product throughout their stay in school. In 2013 the young students gave a touch of joy, wit and adrenaline with a rally that turned out to be a success.