...Mexican President Felipe Calderon fired his interior minister and replaced him with a close ally on Wednesday in a cabinet shake up to help his government push economic reforms through Congress.
Calderon said he had removed Francisco Ramirez, criticized for failing to build alliances with the opposition, and put his chief of staff, Juan Camilo Mourino, into the post...
...In Mexico, the interior minister has a key role in negotiating with the opposition. Calderon's conservative National Action Party is the biggest party in Congress but lacks an absolute majority and needs to negotiate laws with opposition leaders.
Mourino, 36, said Calderon had told him to work closely with Congress to speed up planned reforms, the biggest of which is an overhaul of the energy sector to halt declining oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico...
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Importance: This event is more important than meets the eye. It shows how Calderon is slowly gaining more approval. It also shows how he plans to get various tasks accomplished as the president of Mexico.
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