Written by HONOLULU, HAWAII — Following the untimely death of Mexico’s interior minister, the North American Leaders’ Summit (NALS) on Sunday has been cancelled.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper was set to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon after the APEC summit in Honolulu wrapped up.
However, Calderon cancelled his participation in both summits after learning about the death of his close and personal friend, Mexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora.
Mora died in a helicopter crash Friday along with seven other people about 70 kilometres south of Mexico City.
Officials say the late interior minister was also a friend of Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and had worked with him on several files.
“Mr. Mora was a leader in the fight against drug trafficking and he will be sorely missed,” said Baird in a statement. “We also extend our deepest sympathies to the families and friends of the other six victims of this fatal crash.”
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Evolution and Food, a Different Point of View
2011 Leave a Comment
I read a paper once on a native American tribe from the southwest. They had a larger than normal occurrence of diabetes. To put it in a nutshell, in trying to determine the cause of this the study found that the loss of a melon that had been natural to their diet contributed greatly to the rise in diabetes cases within the tribe. When the melon was reintroduced into their diet the occurrence of diabetes fell dramatically. It turns out that after ten thousand years of depending on this fruit for a major part of their diet their digestive systems had adapted to the point where taking the food source away caused it damage. READ MORE »