Mexico ( 6 bodies dumped by bus stop - 5 men and 1 woman - Cartel wars )

Six Bodies Found in Northern Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Six bodies were found by police Tuesday in a community outside General Enrique Estrada, a city in the north-central Mexican state of Zacatecas, state officials said.

“It was learned that members of a criminal organization left six dead bodies in the community of Felix Uresti Gomez,” the Zacatecas state government said.

State police heading to the city of Rio Grande, where a law enforcement operation was planned, made the grisly discovery.

The bodies were dumped by the bus stop in the community, which is on Federal Highway 45 on the way from Fresnillo to Zacatecas city.

The victims – five men and a woman – have not been identified, officials said.

“A message was left along with the bodies, noting the fight between two rival criminal groups with a presence in the state,” the state government said.

Zacatecas, like other states in northern Mexico, has been affected by a turf war between the Gulf and Los Zetas drug cartels.

After several years on the payroll of the Gulf cartel, Los Zetas, considered Mexico’s most violent criminal organization, went into the drug business on their own account and now control several lucrative territories.

The criminal organizations have been fighting for control of smuggling routes into the United States since 2010.

The war on drugs launched by former President Felipe Calderon, who was in office from 2006 to 2012, left about 70,000 people dead, or an average of 32 per day, in Mexico, officials say.

Calderon, of the conservative National Action Party, or PAN, deployed thousands of soldiers and Federal Police officers across the country to fight drug cartels. EFE

CORPUS CHRISTI ( Illegal Immigrant charged with killing 7 smuggled aliens )

Previously Deported Mexican Charged in Deaths of 7 Smuggled Aliens

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A previously deported illegal alien from Mexico was charged with smuggling a group of 14 illegal aliens that resulted in seven being killed and one injured in critical condition.

These charges were announced last Thursday by U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson, Southern District of Texas, along with Brian M. Moskowitz, special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Houston.

The indictment returned on April 18 charges Idelfonso Garcia-Benitez, 20, of Michoacan, Mexico, with one count of conspiring to transport aliens, 14 counts of transporting an alien, and one count of illegally re-entering the United States after previously being deported.

According to documents filed of record in the case, on March 20, 2013, at about 11 p.m., a Kingsville Police Department officer observed a pickup truck violate state traffic law by disregarding a stop sign. The officer attempted to conduct a traffic stop on this vehicle, but the vehicle fled, leading to a brief pursuit.

The driver crashed into a vehicle barrier on General Cavazos Avenue in Kleberg County that had been deployed by the Kingsville Naval Air Station. A total of 15 illegal aliens were discovered at the scene. Of those, Garcia-Benitez was identified as the driver. Seven were killed and one remains in critical condition.

“The tragic loss of life in this case shows the very real risks that people face when they put themselves in the hands of a smuggler,” said Moskowitz. “Those responsible for illegally moving people into and through our country place their personal profit above everything else. They are driven by greed with little regard for the health and well-being of their human cargo, which can be a deadly combination.”

Garcia-Benitez was arrested at the scene of the accident. He has been in custody since that time, where he will remain pending further criminal proceedings. He is expected to appear for an arraignment hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Owsley early next week.

If convicted, Garcia-Benitez faces up to 20 years in prison and a possible $250,000 fine.

This case is being investigated by HSI and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey S. Miller.

An indictment is a formal accusation of criminal conduct, not evidence. A defendant is presumed innocent unless convicted through due process of law.

French Embassy bombed in Libya ( Car bomb injured 2 french guards )

CAIRO (The New York Times) — The French Embassy in Libya was struck by what was reported to be a car bomb on Tuesday, injuring two French guards, according Libyan media accounts and French authorities who called the attack “odious.”
The assault was described as the first of its kind in the Libyan capital since the revolt beginning in 2011 that toppled Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, but it was not the first attack on a diplomatic building in Libya.

Last September in the eastern city of Benghazi, militants struck at two American facilities, killing the American ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans. Last month, Libyan security officials said they had arrested two men in the kidnapping near Benghazi of five British humanitarian activists, at least two of them women who had been sexually assaulted.
On Tuesday, Reuters quoted residents living near the French diplomatic compound in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, as saying they heard two explosions in the early morning.
“We think it was a booby trapped car,” a French Embassy official told Reuters. “There was a lot of damage and there are two guards wounded.”
The attack raised worries among Tripoli residents that the security situation there was unraveling further.
Since the fall of Colonel Qaddafi, Tripoli had generally been seen as safer than Benghazi, which many foreigners avoid. But the country as a whole is viewed by outsiders as potentially perilous with many weapons in the hands of citizens and militias beyond government control. Many foreigners in Tripoli take elaborate security precautions.
The French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, was quick to issue a statement in Paris calling Tuesday’s attack odious. Mr. Fabius said he condemned the attack with the utmost vigor and said French and Libyan authorities would make every effort to shed light on the circumstances surrounding the attack.
The assault came a day after the French Parliament voted to extend the French military deployment in Mali, but there was no indication whether the attack was linked to that development. No group immediately took responsibility for the blast.

PANAMA City ( 1.5 tons of Cocaine Seized from Speed Boat -12 nautical miles from El Porvenir)

1.5 Tons of Cocaine Seized in Panama

PANAMA CITY – Panama’s Senan aero-naval force seized 1.5 tons of cocaine and arrested four Colombians in an operation carried out in the Caribbean Sea 12 nautical miles from El Porvenir, authorities said Monday.

The suspects were traveling in a speed boat that was spotted early Saturday morning by a helicopter and then intercepted by two patrol boats, Senan chief Belsio Gonzalez told a press conference.

The drug shipment was divided into 59 packets and authorities are not ruling out the possibility that it could be linked to the cartel operating in Colombia’s Gulf of Uraba, he said.

Gonzalez said that the intelligence departments of both the Colombian army and police have been contacted about the drug shipment.

So far in 2013, Senan has seized more than 10 tons of illegal drugs, half of it cocaine. EFE

LA PAZ ( Police seized 5000 live baby Caimans -Dealers arrested )

5,000 Live Baby Caimans Seized in East Bolivia

LA PAZ – Bolivian police seized 5,000 live baby caimans in an operation against animal trafficking in the oriental province of Santa Cruz, which borders on Brazil and Paraguay, the provincial government said Saturday.

Dealers had shipped the baby caimans in trucks to the city of Santa Cruz from the village of San Matias on the Brazilian border, an area rich in wetlands and animal diversity.

Santa Cruz Environment Secretary Manilo Roca said that the baby caimans of the yacare species, a medium to small sized crocodilian, have now been cared for and fed and could be returned to their habitat.

Confiscated from the same trucks were 500 caiman skins of various sizes, with a total value of $18,000.

Roca said that if the owners of the shipment do not have authorization to engage in this kind of commerce, they will be tried for illegal trafficking of a species that can only be sold under a management plan with special permits.

Iran News ( Two women Executed in Western Iran this Week ) City of Kermanshah

Iran: Four hanged including two women

 

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NCRI - The Iranian regime's has hanged four prisoners in western city of Kermanshah on Monday.
The Iranian regime's judiciary said the victims were hanged in the morning in the city's Dizel-abad prison.
During the past week more than two dozen prisoners have been executed in cities across Iran. At least six prisoners were hanged in public.
Among the victims there were four citizens of Afghanistan.

Mexico ( Hooded student protesters burst into Presidents office - Demand re-enrollment of 5 students) Wow

Hooded Protesters Occupy Mexican University President’s Office

MEXICO CITY – A group of “people with their faces covered” occupied the office of the president of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, or UNAM, over the weekend to protest the expulsion of five students and make several other demands, officials of the Mexico City-based university said.

“People with their faces covered have once again attacked the UNAM,” the Office of Directors of Schools, Institutes and Centers said in a statement.

The building was occupied on Sunday, two days after students staged a protest march at the UNAM, Mexico’s largest university and one of Latin America’s leading higher education institutions, officials said.

The university provides adequate channels for students to seek a redress of grievances and lodge complaints, the UNAM said.

About 200 students from the School of Sciences and Humanities, one of the UNAM’s university preparatory schools, marched down one of Mexico City’s main avenues last Friday to Ciudad Universitaria, the institution’s main campus.

Some 15 hooded students burst into the building that houses the president’s office and occupied it to demand the reinstatement of five students from the School of Sciences and Humanities’ campus in Naucalpan, a Mexico City suburb, who were expelled for vandalism on Feb. 5. EFE