Screw the World I Only Have Time for LA

• Mexico, Mexico, Mexico - A councilman and a police chief for a Monterrey suburb are shot dead. A muckracking journalist from Nuevo Laredo died - of natural causes. The mayor of Tijuana is not shedding tears over the loss. The head of administration for the Fox government is asking for forgiveness for not doing enough to stem the slaughter in Ciudad Juarez (en esp.). A drug gang is now claiming to be one of the good guys and they want everyone to know so they went ahead and took out a full page ad. A sobering report notes that 97 infants under the age of one die every day (en esp.) - the most dangerous place for these infants? The home.
  
• President-elect Calderon is reaching out to three minor parties (en esp.) in the Chamber of Deputies. He has written letters to the "liberal" (liberal in the traditional non-American sense) Nueva Alianza, the social democratic Alternativa and the Greens (all en esp.). He is searching for common ground.
  
• NYT has a story on Wal Mart doing retail banking in Mexico.