Congress Approves Mexico's 2015 Budget, Cuts Funding on Searching for Disappeared teleSUR
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With 457 votes in favor, 10 against and one abstention, Mexico’s congress has overall approved the nation’s 2015 budget. The year will see an amount of $4.7 billion pesos ($345 million dollars), representing an amount greater than that proposed by the executive branch.

According to a report by La Jornada, Pedro Pablo Trevino of the Budge and Public Accounts Committee, says the 2015 budget will be geared towards addressing social needs and promoting a policies that increase productive employment, yet will break with a vision of “welfare”.

The budget is to also contemplate the application of this past years approval of major structural reforms that seek to pull in foreign investment.

One important element of the budget that has seen sharp criticism is a dramatic cut on funding towards a federal unit tasked with searching and finding Mexico’s estimated 26,000 disappeared.

Although Mexican authorities have publically made the search for the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students one of their top priorities since the youth were attacked by local police in Guerrero, Mexico, in September, the unit will see a 65% decrease in funding.

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