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Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Monday, December 04, 2006

Mexico's New President Cuts Own Salary

By IOAN GRILLO
Associated Press Writer

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Newly sworn-in president Felipe Calderon decreed a 10 percent pay cut for himself and his cabinet members on Sunday, echoing a central campaign promise of the leftist rival he beat by a razor-thin margin.

Calderon said in a televised speech that he also would slash government spending on everything from cell phone calls to foreign trips and increase transparency to avoid corruption.

"We will give accounts of every peso that citizens have given to the government," Calderon said. "Transparency and accountability is the responsibility of every democratic government."

Calderon said the spending cuts he signed in the Sunday decree would save about $2.5 billion in the next year, or enough to build 2,500 schools. He also promised to send a public spending bill to Congress to make long term savings.

Mexico's elected officials are among the highest paid in the world. Former President Vicente Fox's salary was about $245,000 in 2006. The full details of Calderon's 2007 salary have not have not been publicly released yet.

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