MEXICO Sinaloa ( Violence spirals out of control in Northern Sinaloa as a new group asserts control )

Violence Spirals Out of Control in Northern Sinaloa

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Violence spirals out of control in Northern Sinaloa as a new group asserts control


This narcomanta was left in a Jeep Cherokee with the bodies of 6 victims who were kidnapped on April 8

Written by Adán German for Borderland Beat

La Mochomera, lead by "los Dos Letras", claims Northern Sinaloa
Violence, which is already commonplace in Sinaloa, is reaching new levels of barbarity in Northern Sinaloa as an apparently new group asserts ownership of the plaza.

The horror became apparent with the kidnapping of 6 men from El Fuerte and Juan Jose Rios on April 8. Their bodies were dumped in a Jeep Cherokee SUV on the shoulder of the Mexico highway 15 on April 20. Five of the victims have been identified as Sergio Roberto Valenzuela Aqui, el Checo, Leonard Alberto Romero Aguilar, el Leonard, Luis Rey Ramirez Guerrero, el Pili, Luis Alberto Osorio Valenzuela, el Chuy Poros, and Arturo Andalon Miranda, el Wico.

One of the victims is believed to be a municipal police officer, and they are from Juan Jose Rios, Constancia, Tehueco, and Mochicahui. The narcomanta left with the victims was directed at Ahome police commander Jesus Carrasco Ruiz and his officers.


The 6 men dumped with a Jeep Cherokee on April, 20 were kidnapped on April 8

Former Ahome police commander murdered
The 6 bodies in the Jeep Cherokee were dumped a few days after the murder of former Ahome police commander Nicolas Galaviz Vasquez on April 18. Galaviz was gunned down less than 200 meters from the municipal palace in Los Mochis. He had been accused of complicity in drug dealing and murder during his tenure as one of the police commanders in Ahome.

Bangladesh ( Islamic protesters gather - Rioters set fire to shops - They want bloggers punished)

Up to half a million supporters of the Islamofascism group Hefazat-e Islam gathered in the city to call for stronger Islamic policies in this secular Muslim country. Rioters set fire to shops and vehicles. At least seven people were killed and 60 injured in clashes with police.

MEXICO ( Police Find 7 Bodies in Central Mexico - Naked and tortured )

Police Find 7 Bodies in Central Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Police found seven bodies in a street in Ecatepec, a city northeast of Mexico City, over the weekend, state officials said.

The bodies were discovered early Sunday on Pemex avenue in the Obrera Jajalpa district of Ecatepec, a spokesman for the Mexico state Attorney General’s Office told Efe.

Four of the bodies were found by state police inside a vehicle and the other three were on the ground, Milenio Television reported.

Three of the victims were clothed and the other four were naked, the El Universal newspaper reported on its Web site.

Eight bodies, six of them naked and showing signs of torture, were found by municipal police officers in Ecatepec on Oct. 25.

City officials said at the time that investigators presumed the killings were linked to organized crime because of the way the victims were murdered, but no messages were left with the bodies.

Ecatepec has 1.9 million residents and is one of largest cities in Mexico state, which surrounds the Federal District and forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan area.

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

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Iran News ( Public Hanging - Liberty Square - 3 murder suspects ) Western Iran

Three Prisoners Hanged Publicly at the Liberty Square of Kermanshah (Western Iran)

Monday 6 May 2013

[English] [فارسى]

 

Iran Human Rights, May 6: Three prisoners were hanged in the "Liberty Square" of Kermanshah (western Iran) today.
According to the state run Iranian news agency ISNA, the prisoners were all convicted of murder.
Two of the prisoners were convicted of murdering a man , had "immoral" relationship with the man’s wife and where given 6 million Toman for kliing the husband. The report didn’t mention whether the victim’s wife was convicted of adultery and complicity in murder.
The third man who was hanged publicly today was also convictied of killing a girl with a gun. the girl and her family had refused to get married to the man, said the report.
None of those executed today were identified by name.
Kermanshah’s "Liberty Square" has been the scene of several public executions in the past few years (picture above, January 2012).
Iran Human rights strongly condemn’s the new wave of public executions in Iran. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the spokesperson of IHR said: " the new wave of executions in Iran are meant to spread fear among the people in order to prevent protests in relation with the coming Presidential elections in June".

MEXICO ( More violence- Shootouts Leave 11 Dead in Northeast Mexico )

The victims, including a soldier, died in three shootouts between army troops and armed civilians in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, authorities said

MEXICO CITY – At least 11 people, including a soldier, died in three shootouts between army troops and armed civilians in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, the state government said Sunday.

The shootouts occurred on Saturday, the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.

“The first of the shootouts occurred at 2:30 p.m. in La Presa, an agricultural community south of the town of Valadeces, city of Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, where two armed civilians died,” the AG’s office said.

Another shootout happened in Matamoros at 6:15 p.m. near kilometer 21 of the highway that links that border city with Reynosa, leaving “six armed civilians dead,” the AG’s office said.

“The third shootout occurred at 7:40 p.m. in the agricultural community of Acatlan, city of Guemez, where two armed civilians and a soldier died,” the AG’s office said.

The Gulf and Los Zetas drug cartels have been fighting for control of Tamaulipas and smuggling routes into the United States.

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.

President Enrique Peña Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, has continued the strategy implemented by Calderon of taking on the cartels, but he has also called for bolstering intelligence capabilities and attacking criminal organizations’ entire structures, not just kingpins.

Ecuador ( Ecuador Nabs 2 in Possession of Anti-Tank Rockets )

Ecuador Nabs 2 in Possession of Anti-Tank Rockets

QUITO – Military personnel confiscated eight anti-tank rockets from two civilians traveling in a private automobile, Ecuador’s Armed Forces Joint Command said Friday.

Troops found the ordnance Thursday during a search conducted at a highway checkpoint 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from Mitad del Mundo, near Quito.

The eight PG-7 rockets, used with RPG-7 launchers, were found “hidden among oranges in a jute sack,” the Joint Command said in a statement.

“The rockets and the citizens were handed over to the competent authorities for the corresponding legal steps,” the statement said. EFE