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Calderon: The enemies are poverty and insecurity
Expreso (Hermosillo, Sonora) 5/5/08
At ceremonies commemorating the 146th anniversary of the Battle of Puebla,
President Calderon said that the government will be unyielding against those who
wish to destroy the fabric of Mexican society and he also acknowledged that the
enemies of Mexico today are poverty and insecurity.
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Cuarto Poder (Tuxtla, Chiapas) 5/5/08
41 Guatemalans, 31 Salvadorans, 8 Ecuadoreans, 4 Hondurans - 69 men and 15 women
- suffering from heat and lack of ventilation, were rescued when found at an
immigration control checkpoint just outside Tuxtla on the highway to Mexico
City. The 84 were all stuffed inside a double bottom truck trailer under a load
of cattle feed.
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El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 5/5/08
The first and the last two paragraphs of the main editorial follow:
The residents of Sinaloa, especially those of Culiacan, live in constant
anxiety, terrorized by the endless violence which during the last three days has
cost the lives of eleven persons, among them three believed to be triggermen,
six police officers and two civilians.
The least that can be said about Culiacan is that it is "a war zone" where
neither the Federal Preventive (police) nor the army is able to impose order, to
say nothing of the state and city police agencies whose ranks are being
decimated by the hired killers.
200 Federal Preventive Police arrived yesterday in Culiacan to reinforce law
enforcement operations and the investigations of the murders of four federal
agents, but much more is needed to counteract the wave of violence which
prevails over the state capital.
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El Diario de Coahuila (Saltillo, Coahuila) 5/5/08
Two extracts follow from a long article by Claudia Luna Palencia on the
conditions facing Hispanic immigrants in the U.S. and on the flow of individual
monetary remittances sent by them to their countries of origin. On the first
subject:
A recent poll by the Inter American Development Bank predicts that the amount of
these remittances this year will match that of 2006 and 2007, that is, some 45
billion, 900 million dollars.
On the second subject: "The
point is that, besides the fascist persecution against illegal workers in the
United States and the pressures on businesses not to hire them, misery arises as
a reality and does so among others, among the legal and illegal Hispanics in the
country of dreams."
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El Universal (Mexico City) 5/5/08
High impact crimes - kidnapping, homicide and rape - increased 20.93 % in the
state of Mexico between 2005 and 2007. There were 6,274 murders in that state in
2007.
(Note: this refers only to the state, not to the country, of Mexico)
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Entorno a Tamaulipas (Matamoros, Tamps.) 5/5/08
Gerardo Garza Manriquez, president of the Foreign Currency Exchange Houses in
Matamoros, said that the (Mex.) federal government's operations against
narco-traffic have caused a halt in the circulation of cash in the area because
drug traffickers are not spending money and this has affected the local economy.
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Milenio (Mexico City) 5/5/08
A vehicle previously identified as a means of transporting narcotics was stopped
on its way northbound to Chihuahua on the Zacatecas-Torreon highway. The engine
of the T-Bird showed signs of recently moved bolts and had silicone sealant. The
car was taken to Fresnillo where the top of the engine was removed and two
packages of heroin were found. One weighed 3 kgs., 775 gms. and the other 1 kg.,
855 gms., enough for a million, 126 thousand doses of the drug.
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Noroeste (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 5/5/08
Four more executions took place in Culiacan yesterday (Sunday): two men were
victims at a "table dance" locale that has already been the site of prior
homicides. The other bodies two were found by the side of a road, covered with a
tarp and with ropes around their necks.
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El Nuevo Diario (Managua, Nicaragua) 5/5/08
Fredy Galuel, his wife Gladys and their son Barney, said to be residents of
Miami, arrived at the airport in Cartagena, Colombia, on a flight originating in
Miami. Their luggage was inspected since that was at least their twelfth arrival
in Cartagena during the last year. False bottoms in their six pieces of luggage
held bundles of 100 dollar bills totaling 1.4 million dollars. Barney, 20,
admitted charges of money laundering, punishable by eight years imprisonment.