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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Light aircraft accident, six people were killed in Mexico

Mexico City (News and Us)-six people were killed on Tuesday (7/4), when a light aircraft belonging to the Office of the Attorney General's Office (PGR) of Mexico crashed in the State of Zacatecas in Central Mexico-North, said the State Attorney General Arturo Nahle.

The plane carrying several people working for PGR and the Federal Police when it crashed, said Nahle to one local television station, according to a report by Xinhua, Wednesday morning.


The plane exploded and caught fire when it crashed in the small town of La Noria, about 10 kilometers from the State capital, also named Zacatecas, shortly after take-off from Victor Rosales air terminal at the airport.


Just a few days earlier, the Attorney General of Mexico Murillo Karam fly to Zacatecas with the same plane ride.


The Government still has to ensure the penyabab of the crash, but the fire had made the plane so the ash, they said.


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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Prostitutes found in Mexico jail

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8 November 2011 Last updated at 01:49 GMT Map of Mexico A surprise inspection in a prison in Mexico has revealed the presence of 19 prostitutes, 100 plasma televisions, two sacks of marijuana, and 100 cockerels for cock fighting.

The discovery in the prison in Acapulco came as police prepared to transfer the inmates to a maximum security jail.

The officers also found six female inmates living in the male section of the prison and two peacocks.

Mexican jails are notorious for overcrowding, corruption and rioting.

It is not the first time luxury items and weapons have been found in a Mexican jail.

In July, prisoners in a jail in Sonora state were found to be running a lottery to raffle off a luxury cell they'd equipped with a fridge, DVD player and air conditioning.

An inspector from the State Commission for the Defence of Human Rights, Hipolito Lugo Cortes, recently denounced conditions in five prisons in Guerrero state, among them the one in Acapulco.

He said inmates were running affairs at these penitentiaries according to their own laws and customs, with little or no control by prison authorities.



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Friday, October 14, 2011

In Pictures: Mexico set for Pan American Games

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14 October 2011 Last updated at 10:31 GMT

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Sunday, October 9, 2011

Mexico arrests top cartel suspect

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6 October 2011 Last updated at 01:44 GMT Noel Salgueiro Nevarez under arrest in Mexico City. 5 Oct 2011 Police say Noel Salgueiro Nevarez was taken in a carefully planned operation Mexican forces have arrested a man they say is a key figure in the country's most powerful drugs cartel.

Noel Salgueiro Nevarez is accused of running the Sinaloa cartel's operations in the northern state of Chihuahua, where drug violence is rampant.

Defence officials said his arrest would seriously weaken the cartel in Mexico and abroad.

The arrest was made on the same day as that of Martin Rosales Magana, who is accused of leading the La Familia gang.

The army said Mr Salgueiro Nevarez was seized in a carefully planned military operation, without a shot being fired.

Defence Ministry spokesman Ricardo Trevilla Trejo said Noel Salgueiro Nevarez was behind much of the extreme violence which has plagued Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's murder capital.

He said the suspect, also known as El Flaco (The Skinny One), led a gang of hitmen who extorted local businessmen, kidnapped for ransom, and tortured and killed members of a rival gang, the Juarez cartel.

'Criminal career'

Continue reading the main story Ignacio de los Reyes BBC Mundo, Mexico City

The Sinaloa Cartel controls the production of large quantities of heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine (in the US) and boasts an extensive network of associates to facilitate its US trafficking operations, US officials say.

On Saturday, Texas Governor Rick Perry said he would even consider sending US troops into Mexico to combat drug-related violence and "keep the cartels off the border".

This is why the arrest of "The Skinny One" could be a severe blow to the Sinaloa cartel activity both sides of the fence.

It is also a public relations boost for Mexican President Felipe Calderon at home and in the US, amid growing criticism of his government's strategy to fight criminals and the drug trafficking.

Yet, the Sinaloa Cartel leader is still free. Joaquin "The Shorty" Guzman escaped from a maximum security prison in 2001, embarrassing the Mexican government.

Since then, he's become the number one target with a $3m reward for his capture.

The security forces say the bitter war between the two gangs was the trigger for most of the 3,000 killings in Ciudad Juarez last year.

Prosecutors said Mr Salgueiro Nevarez started his criminal career 15 years ago, producing marijuana for the Sinaloa cartel.

They said his gang had been exporting up to 15 tonnes of marijuana and two tonnes of cocaine per month to the United States.

The government had offered a three-million-peso ($220,000; £130,000) reward for information leading to his capture.

Security officials said his arrest, in the city of Culiacan in northwestern Sinaloa state, was a major blow to the Sinaloa cartel and its leader, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.

Mr Guzman, 54, is Mexico's most wanted man and thought to be one of the country's richest.

Two years ago, he made Forbes magazine's list of the 67 World's Most Powerful People. At number 41, he was just below Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Crumbling cartel

Mr Salgueiro Nevarez's arrest was announced at the same time as that of another top figure in the Mexican drugs trade.

Martin Rosales Magana on 5 October 2011 Police say Martin Rosales Magana lead the remnants of the La Familia cartel

Martin Rosales Magana, 47, was seized in Mexico state on Tuesday. Police say he is one of the founders of the once-powerful La Familia cartel.

Until the beginning of this year, La Familia ran much of the methamphetamine trade in Mexico.

It claimed to protect local communities and promote family values, but also engaged in gruesome violence.

The security forces say it has been almost entirely dismantled, with its top leaders either in jail or dead.

They say Mr Rosales Magana lead a number of small cells still loyal to the cartel, which had holed themselves up in a rural area between Michoacan and Mexico state.

At a news conference, federal police counter-narcotics chief Ramon Pequeno described how La Familia splintered after the security forces killed the cartel's then-leader Nazario Moreno in December 2010.

He said part of the gang set up a rival cartel, which they named Knights Templar, and which quickly took over many of the methamphetamine labs in the west and south-west of the country.

Mr Pequeno said Mr Rosales Magana and those loyal to him tried to regain control of the drugs trade in Michoacan state by forging an alliance with their long-time rivals, the Zetas cartel.

He told reporters how "they met with the Zetas to ask for operational assistance, weapons and salaries [for gunmen] and expenses money, in order to recoup important cities held by the Knights Templar".

However, according to police, the alliance soon faltered because Mr Rosales Magane no longer had access to the precursor chemicals needed to make methamphetamine, their main source of income.

Mr Pequeno said with La Familia severely weakened, police would now focus their attention on taking down the Knights Templar.



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'Rival' killed Mexico politician

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6 October 2011 Last updated at 02:07 GMT Mexico map Judicial officials in Mexico say the murder of a federal Congressman in the southern state of Guerrero last month was ordered by a political rival.

Moises Villanueva, a representative in Mexico's lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, was found dead two weeks after being abducted.

Police said two men confessed to the crime and implicated a local mayor.

The suspects said the mayor, whom the authorities have not named, paid them $22,000 to kill Mr Villanueva.

Mr Villanueva was abducted along with his driver, Erick Estrada Vazquez, on 4 September.

Their bodies were found by the roadside in the southern state of Guerrero two weeks later. Forensic reports at the time said they had been shot dead.

Attorney General for Guerrero State Alberto Lopez Rosa said the two suspects, who are brothers, had confessed to the murder.

He said the suspects, one of whom is a police officer, had intercepted Mr Villanueva and his driver in the town of Huamuxtitlan.

Mr Lopez Rosa said they confessed to beating the two men and forcing them into the boot of their car before driving them to a bridge, from which they dumped them.

It is not clear whether the politician and his driver were still alive at the time.

Mr Lopez Rosa said he would soon reveal the identity of the man the suspects said had hired them to kill Mr Villanueva.



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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Mexico jailbreak officials held

Map of Veracruz The break-outs happened at three jails across the state almost simultaneously


 Police stand outside the Duport Ostion jail Twelve inmates escaped from Duport Ostion jail in Coatzacoalcos Officials in charge of the Mexican prisons from which 32 inmates escaped have been detained, prosecutors say.
The prisoners staged an almost simultaneous break-out from three jails in western Veracruz state on Monday.
The prison directors and their deputies had been detained on suspicion of helping the inmates to escape, said Veracruz Prosecutor Reynaldo Escobar.
Prison breaks are not uncommon in Mexico, last year more than 140 people escaped from a prison in Nuevo Laredo.
Mr Escobar said the director and the security chief of La Toma jail in Amatlan de los Reyes, as well as the director and deputy director of Cosamaloapan jail, were already in custody.
'Inside job'
The prosecutor said he had also ordered the detention of the director and deputy director of Duport Ostion jail in Coatzacoalcos.
The break-outs happened in the early hours of Monday morning.
Sixteen inmates escaped from Duport Ostion, 14 from La Toma and two from the Cosamaloapan prison.
Fourteen of the fugitives were recaptured shortly afterwards.
Guards at the jails said they had been overpowered and forced to open the doors.
Veracruz state official Gerardo Buganza Salmeron cast doubt on reports the prisoners had been armed.
"The presence of an armed group normally leads to blood being shed, (it leads) to lamentable and bloody acts, and in the cases of these three prisons there was none of that," he said.
Mr Buganza Salmeron also dismissed speculation that the break-outs had been organised by criminal gangs outside the prisons.
He said that if that had been the case the security forces would not have been able to recapture so many of the fugitives as quickly as they did.
Security at Mexican prisons is notoriously weak, with guards often intimidated or bribed by drug gangs operating inside and outside the jails.
The largest jailbreak so far was last December when more than 140 prisoners escaped from a penitentiary in Nuevo Laredo, in northern Tamaulipas state.
Prison officials who refuse to be bribed by the country's powerful drug gangs sometimes end up dead.
In May, the deputy governor of a prison in the northern state of Durango was murdered.
His dismembered body was found in a plastic box inside a car abandoned near the prison where he worked.


Friday, September 16, 2011

Able to return to Millions in California, Arizona and the Mexico

SAN DIEGO - utility crews brought electricity to much of California, Arizona and Mexico Friday, a day after a failure left millions of people on highways dark, paralyzed and interrupted electricity flights at the airport in San Diego.

Officials, however, warned that electricity was still too fragile, and asked residents and businesses to move easily over - or even put off using - major appliances such as air conditioners.

"Conservation will really help reduce the strain," Stephanie McCorkle said the operator of the system of the independent in California, which manages the power grid.

Electricity returned to San Diego early Friday, signaling that the blackout was essentially on because most of the affected people were in the eighth largest city in the nation. Schools of the city, State universities and community colleges in the region remained entering. Beaches were closed because the failure caused a spill of wastewater of $ 3.2 million - gallon.

The Mexico power utility has said that the lights are on for 1.1 million customers, or 97% of those who have lost power. Power was also restored to all 56,000 customers in Yuma, Ariz.

The San Diego region was particularly hard with collected power on 16 Thursday to all household customers and business of 1.4 million of San Diego Gas & Electric Co. has.

That has left residents without air conditioners are stifling and paralyse some traffic Highway and the airport.

The blackout extended in southern Orange County, through the Interior deserts of California, as far as Yuma and the Mexico. The region is the home of 6 million people, although it was impossible to say exactly how many had lost power.

The failure occurred after an electrical worker removed a piece of equipment to a power of southwestern Arizona of monitoring substation, officials based Phoenix Arizona Public Service Co. said.

It is therefore not clear that mishap, which normally would have been isolated, has attracted such widespread failure. The company said that would be the subject of an investigation.

"This was not a deliberate act." "The employee was just switching on a piece of equipment that was problematic,", a declared Daniel Froetscher, an APS Vice-President.

It is possible that extreme heat may also have caused some problems with the transmission lines, said Mike Niggli, chief operating officer of San Diego Gas & Electric Co.

During the night, a large part of San Diego was in the dark, and all outgoing flights based at its main airport, Lindbergh Field. The airfield was opened and had the power to Friday morning, but authorities said that some airlines have cancelled flights.

There was no immediate report of major injuries related to the failure. The authorities of San Diego and elsewhere said they were on alert, but no major problems had arisen, including the slightest sign of looting or other disorders.

There are reports of minor accidents as the crash caused mayhem in the streets without traffic during rush hour.

Leah Walden, 59, said she saw five swept on its drive of his work of accountant in suburban Spring Valley for a tasting of wedding cake to San Diego.

"People are irritated." "They don't want wait," said Walden, adding that about 15 cars had a setback on the highway turning off the highway of traffic sense opposite to escape traffic jams. "This is how nuts people."

In the city of Encinitas in the range to the North of San Diego, Tim Grenda, 41, put a positive spin, noting that its hot yoga class was cooler due to the failure. The class, usually conducted at 104 degrees, was closer to 99 degrees because an oven used for heat pump had been eliminated.

"It was hot enough for me, but this is not quite as intense as the usual practice," he said.

Rosa Maria Gonzales, a spokesman with the Imperial Irrigation District in sizzling California eastern desert, was less enthusiastic - temperatures were well on the territory of three figures when the power is turned off.

"It feels like you are in an oven and you cannot escape," she said.

The blackout extended South of the border in Tijuana, Mexicali and other cities in the State of Baja California to the Mexico, which are connected to the U.S. power grid, said Niggli. The police on both sides by reinforcements sent to prevent the crime of looting and other in their cities, but none were reported.

In the border city of Tijuana, people formed long lines outside stores Thursday, trying to buy ice or take advantage of the beer sold at half price. Many people drank this beer in the street or in the parked cars with loudspeakers for loud music booming.

Cars a form lines and in stations of rare gas generators which remained open and traffic seized streets after traffic lights stopped working.

Jose Padilla Flores, who was one of the few people who still had electricity Thursday, offered to let people watch the telenovela on its television if they bought fried tacos and water flavoured his small restaurant "Eldorado" in the neighbourhood of la Independencia.

"My female neighbours were the first to ask if I could let them watch the telenovela," said Padilla Flores, 35. "I thought it was a great idea to promote my business."

San Diego residents poured into the few bars that remained open downtown after dark, some donning reading lights on their heads as minors. A pair of men carried flaming torches tiki - usually planted in backyards - to see their way to the bottom of the street of pitch black.

"This is surreal, said Myrna Contreras, 35, sitting on the patio of a candle-lit bar." "". He is optimistic. "He is friendly.

Two reactors at a nuclear power plant along the coast went offline after losing power, but officials said that no there was no danger to the public or the workers.

The blackout came more than eight years after a more severe black fate in 2003 darkens a wide swath of the Midwest and Northeast. More than 50 million people were affected in this failure.

In 2001, failed experiment of California with the deregulation of the energy was widely blamed for six days of rolling blackouts that cut off electricity to more than 3 million customers and close the refrigerators, ATMs and traffic lights.



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