AFP: Activists under fire in Mexico Jan 22 2012 – Over the last few months at least three activists have been murdered in Mexico, and a fourth survived a serious attack. In the context of Mexico’s ongoing drug-related violence, some are being targeted for daring to campaign against criminals, others for challenging the actions of corrupt officials and state forces. Continue reading →
Por Guadalupe Lizárraga / Javier Juárez Amenazas de muerte Foto: Javier JuárezLOS ÁNGELES.- La editora responsable de Los Ángeles Press recibió una amenaza de muerte el pasado 13 de diciembre a su celular por investigación sobre las desaparecidas de Juárez. “Si viene de tu parte, lo vamos a levantar y se lo va a llevar la verga”, advertió una voz masculina grave con un marcado acento norteño de México, para referirse al periodista Javier Juárez, colaborador de este digital, quien se encontraba en una asignación especial en Ciudad Juárez.El número registrado en el celular provenía de Phoenix, Arizona, y corresponde una línea de teléfono fijo. Se trata de un extorsionador profesional que tiene más de una decena de reportes por amenazas de muerte, y uno ... Continue reading →
Mexico City has officially closed its biggest rubbish dump, threatening to put thousands out of work. Yet the city government has yet to find an alternative for the thousands of tonnes of rubbish produced by its 9 million plus inhabitants. A voiced AFPTV report.Duration: 01:58 Continue reading →
Mexico's authorities have claimed a recent drop in violence in crime-ridden Veracruz as the fruit of military operations, but given the preceding months of spiralling violence, it remains unclear if this more than a blip. Jose Luis Vergara Ibarra, a spokesman for the marines, said that in the last three months of 2011, during the implementation of Operation Safe Veracruz, there were 445 murders around the state, 396 of them linked to organized crime. The spokesman said that there were more than 2,500 extortion complaints and hundreds of weapons seizures during the operation, as Excelsior reports. This represents a significant fall from the explosion of violence in the preceding few months, which saw Veracruz become one of the most dangerous places in Mexico. According to ... Continue reading →
By msnbc.com staff and news servicesMEXICO CITY – An American missionary couple has been found slain in their home near the violence-plagued industrial city of Monterrey, the U.S. Embassy and family members said Wednesday.The embassy in Mexico identified the couple as John and Wanda Casias, former residents of Amarillo, Texas.Valerie Alirez, the eldest child of John Casias, told The Associated Press from her home in Greeley, Colo., that one of her brothers found her father and stepmother Tuesday dead in their home in Santiago, Nuevo Leon.According to ABC4. com in Salt Lake City, the son told the television station that Wanda Casias's body was found hanging in the kitchen and the father's body was located a short time later behind a guest house near a ... Continue reading →
Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney's ancestors reportedly fled to Mexico in the 19th century to practice polygamy after it was banned in the United States, the Associated Press reported. Romney's great grandfather, Miles Park Romney, fled to Mexico after the 1882 passing of the Edmund Act, which banned polygamy in the US. He married his fifth wife after the Mormon church formally banned the practice in 1890. The Romneys were some of the first Mormons to settle in the border state of Chihuahua, according to the AP. But, when the Mexican Revolution hit Chihuahua in 1912, the Romneys, including Mitt's father, who was 5, fled back into the US, losing their homes, farms and most of their belongings, the Boston Globe reported. After the revolution, ... Continue reading →
Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney's ancestors reportedly fled to Mexico in the 19th century to practice polygamy after it was banned in the United States, the Associated Press reported. Romney's great grandfather, Miles Park Romney, fled to Mexico after the 1882 passing of the Edmund Act, which banned polygamy in the US. He married his fifth wife after the Mormon church formally banned the practice in 1890. The Romneys were some of the first Mormons to settle in the border state of Chihuahua, according to the AP. But, when the Mexican Revolution hit Chihuahua in 1912, the Romneys, including Mitt's father, who was 5, fled back into the US, losing their homes, farms and most of their belongings, the Boston Globe reported. After the revolution, ... Continue reading →
Military General Accused of Ordering Executions in Ojinaga Posted by dheyden on January 31, 2012 · 1 Comment 01/30/2012 – Major General Manuel de Jesús Moreno Aviña has been accused of systematic abuses between April of 2008 and August of 2009 in front of the military garrison of Ojinaga, Chihuahua. According to Reforma, General Moreno Aviña is responsible for at least seven extrajudicial executions. According to Reforma, one such execution was that of José Heriberto Rojas Lemus that occured in July 2008. Rojas Lemus, a 20 to 25 year-old male from Uruapan, Michoacán, was subjected to torture by electric shock in a military outpost in Ojinaga, and is believed to have died of consequent cardiac arrest. Officials and soldiers of the Third Independent Infantry Company ... Continue reading →
