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Posted April 19, 2008
La Jornada
(Mexico City) 4/18/08
Local legislators have asked the governor of Baja California to
urgently revise the "Public Security State System" due to the levels
of violence in this border area.. Deputy Carlos Barboza
pointed out that business people and non-governmental organizations complain
about the increase in kidnappings in Tijuana and
Mexicali. He
added that this growing violence harms society and families. "No one is
safe from its repercussions." Further, that law and order have
been overwhelmed and thus it is urgent to find a solution with the
participation of various sectors of society and politicians. He labeled
as "alarming" the week about to end, during which there have been a
number of kidnappings, shootouts and homicides.
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Milenio (Mexico City)
4/18/08
The Baja California Medical Federation which has
"some six thousand (sic) physicians in Tijuana" declared a twelve hour work
stoppage this Friday as a protest against violence on this border. During a
meeting at the Medical School in Tijuana,
doctors said that they and their families have been victims of all sorts of
crimes, from extortion to kidnapping. Some twenty doctors have been kidnapped.
Extremely ill persons and emergency cases will still be cared for.
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La Cronica (Mexicali, Baja Calif.)
4/18/08
Three Mex. federal agents who had
just arrived in Tijuana were kidnapped and
their bodies were found at dawn yesterday (Thursday) by a dirt road on the
outskirts of Tecate, Baja Calif.;
the three had their arms tied behind their back and their heads had been
wrapped with tape. They had all been shot in the head
and the empty cartridges by the bodies are of AK47 rifle
caliber.
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El Diario de Coahuila (Saltillo, Coah.), Entorno a
Tamaulipas (Matamoros,
Tamps.) 4/18/08
The Chief of Police of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Juan Jose
Muniz Salinas, was arrested by Mex. federal police and has been taken to Mexico City. Though not
yet formally charged, his arrest is based on the belief that he was protecting
the "Zetas" thugs. The police facility's radio frequencies were also
being looked into.
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El Diario (Ciudad Juarez,
Chihuahua) 4/18/08
Jose Nicolas Morales Ramos is the chairman of the
Population, Borders and Migration Issues of the Chamber of Deputies (House of
Representatives) of Mexico.
He has announced that he will present a legal complaint at the United Nations
about the violations of migrants' human rights by the "migratory
authorities of the United
States." The foregoing is due to new
measures adopted by the U.S.
government seeking to take DNA genetic samples from the undocumented detained
by federal agents.
He added "It's one more offense,
it's as if we were animals, any time now they'll want to put a piece of metal
on us to identify the ones who are Mexican from the ones who aren't." The
legislator, who as an adolescent emigrated to the United States and after
attaining the so-called "American dream" returned to Jalisco to be
mayor of Cuautla and then federal deputy for that
state said that he is disappointed with that country because of the treatment
of immigrants.
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El Universo (Guayaquil, Ecuador) 4/18/08
Ninety-two Ecuadoreans, including four minors and
twenty women, left Ecuador
on April 10 aboard the "Paco", a small
vessel with a six man crew and only a 20-person capacity. Their aim was to
reach the coast of Mexico
and then to cross into the United
States. Five days later they were spotted by
a U.S. reconnaissance plane
some 215 miles off the coast of Costa
Rica and were rescued by the U.S. Coast
Guard "Midgett" as the "Paco" was sinking. The 92 have now been returned to Ecuador aboard
two Ecuadorean coast guard units. A couple of the travelers who were
interviewed by reporters upon their arrival in Ecuador said they would try again.
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El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 4/18/08
Honduran police arrested a Nicaraguan
"coyote" - Marlon Fernando Reyes Leiva -
who had with him in a hotel four Peruvians enroute to
the U.S.
The same four, three of them women, had previously been arrested a year ago
in Honduras while attempting
to reach the U.S.
Their entire trip this time was by land, helped along by a string of different
"polleros."
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Prensa Libre (Guatemala City,
Guatemala) 4/18/08
Guatemalan officials made their third seizure of
cocaine this week, this time 200 kilos at Tecun Uman, quite close to the border with Mexico. This
week's cocaine total has now reached 1,600 kilos.
And the Guatemala
City area was the scene of five murders this morning
(Friday). One of the victims had been kidnapped yesterday.
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