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Poll: 42 million Mexicans would opt for living in the U.S. if they could
El Sol de Mexico
(Mexico City; also in some forty other papers of the "o.e.m." nationwide chain)
5/6/08
A poll by the Mitofsky
Consultants shows that 40.7 % of Mexicans, some 42 million persons, would opt
for living in the United States if they could; in 2005, only 21% answered the
same question in the affirmative.
The polling firm contacted one thousand persons older than 18 from April 24 to 29 and found that 50.5 % of those between 18 and 29 years of age answered the question in the affirmative, as did 42.1 % of those between 30 & 49 years of age. Of those 50 years or older, 22.3 % were also inclined to do so.
And 43.6 % of middle class persons also answered in the affirmative.
The polling firm also said that three of every ten
Mexicans, that is to say around 30 million persons, would accept going to the
United States even in an illegal condition. The poll also showed that four out
of ten Mexicans have a relative in the United States. Some 20 million persons of
Mexican origin live "in that country" (read: the U.S.) of which half do so
illegally. Every year half a million Mexicans cross over into the United States
in search of better working conditions.
The month of May has already brought about 80 executions in Mexico including
federal agents and state and city police officers, all attributed to revenge or
settlement of accounts by organized crime groups.
The government has been forced to increase its federal and military personnel
forces in Sinaloa, Guerrero, Chihuahua and Baja California due to the increase
of murders of military and police at all levels. Just yesterday there were six
executions in Sinaloa, three in Guerrero, three in Michoacan, two in Chihuahua,
two in Distrito Federal, one in Durango and one in Jalisco.
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El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 5/6/08
Four different actions by the military in the state of Chihuahua
resulted in the seizure of 9.6 tons of marihuana, a number of assault rifles,
over a thousand rounds of ammo and some radio communication equipment.
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El Financiero (Mexico City) 5/6/08
When an Italian tourist in Cancun came out of a convenience store near
his hotel after buying some beer he was beaten and robbed of 500 Euros and 600
dollars. But the thieves were three Cancun policemen whom he later identified;
all three have been charged.
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El Pulso (San Luis Potosi, S.L.P.) 5/6/08
The wave of violence in Chihuahua caused thirteen other deaths in that
state between the weekend and this Monday, mostly in confrontations between
different organized crime groups.
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El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 5/6/08
The state of Sinaloa's Att'y. Gen. acknowledged that State Ministerial
Police members are resigning their positions because of the wave of violence
which has occurred in the last few days, but he declined to say how many agents
have done so. The mortal attacks against the police agents began on April 3rd,
then were repeated eleven days later. On the 28th there was yet another and two
days later two more agents were killed.
The paper's main editorial again deals with the lawlessness which they say
prevails in Culiacan and neighboring Navolato and which holds Sinaloa in a state
of siege.
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Milenio (Mexico City) 5/6/08
(Portions of the first & last paragraphs of
an op/column by Luis Miguel Gonzalez, "The era of internal migration")
Construction workers from Oaxaca in Jalisco, day laborers from Veracruz
in Sinaloa, the Sinaloan middle class in Tijuana, Distrito Federal professionals
in Colima. In every case there are hundreds or thousands. They are evidence of
an internal migration, a phenomenon which is similar in size to the migration to
the United States, without the same public awareness. Theory holds that a
migrant population enriches the area where they settle. In practice, it
generates tensions derived from the contrast of the cultures and the competition
for scarce resources.. The majority of our cities is not prepared to assimilate
this internal migration. They have neither the physical infrastructure nor the
mentality.
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La Prensa Grafica (San Salvador, El Salvador) 5/6/08
There were 3,491 murders in El Salvador by the end of 2007, a drop of
437 compared with 2006. And as of last Sunday there has been a reduction of 167
murders this year in comparison with 2007; but the daily murder average this
year is 8.7.