Mexico Juarez ( Five people were killed in a Drive by Shooting - with a AK-47 ) Cartel Wars

MONTERREY, Mexico – Five people were killed and one was wounded in two shootings earlier this weekend in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, officials said.

An unidentified gunman opened fire on a group of young men in the Villa de San Juan district of the city of Juarez, located east of Monterrey, around 11:00 p.m. Friday, killing four of them and wounding the fifth.

The gunman drove up to the house where the young men were drinking, threatened them and opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle.

The killings may be related to drug trafficking, Nuevo Leon Security Council officials said.

Another shooting around the same time on Friday night left a man dead in the Independencia section of Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo Leon.

Police officers responding to reports of shots fired went to the area and found a dead body inside a house and two severely beaten men in a nearby ditch, officials said.

Investigators are trying to determine whether the incident was a fight between neighbors, officials said.

Nuevo Leon, one of Mexico’s most violent states, is the scene of a turf war between the Gulf cartel and Los Zetas.

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

Mexico ( Police Arrest 9 for the Killings of two Honduran women in Southern Mexico )

Police Arrest 9 for Killings of Hondurans in Southern Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Nine illegal Honduran immigrants who apparently “belong to Central American gangs dedicated to extortion and robberies of migrants” have been arrested in connection with the killings last week of two Hondurans in southern Mexico, officials said.

The suspects confessed to the killings, which occurred last Thursday, the Government Secretariat and the National Migration Institute, or INM, said in a joint statement.

The bodies of Iris Suleida Raudales Flores, 24, and Cynthia Carolina Cruz Bonilla, 19, were found outside Palenque, a city in Chiapas state, prosecutors said.

The two women were shot and stabbed, the Chiapas state Attorney General’s Office said.

The nine suspects were found aboard a bus that had stopped in the town of Nueva Esperanza by Federal Police officers and Chiapas state police.

Officers found two firearms, ammunition and ammunition clips in a suitcase belonging to the suspects, officials said.

Samuel Hernandez Ramirez, Oscar Edgardo Martinez Garcia, Duglas Alexander Valera Carias, Yoni Alexander Vazquez Membreño, Carlos Antonio Dominguez Espino, Agustin Perez Diaz, Duglas Alexander Cornejo Arevalo, Juan Pablo Lendos and Dayrel Guadalupe Perez were arrested in connection with the killings, the AG’s office said.

An estimated 300,000 Central Americans undertake the hazardous journey across Mexico each year on their way to the United States.

The trek is a dangerous one, with criminals and corrupt Mexican officials preying on the migrants.

Gangs kidnap, exploit and murder migrants, who are often targeted in extortion schemes, Mexican officials say

Mexico ( Two Female Honduran Migrants shot and Killed on a Train in Southeast Mexico )

Two Honduran Migrants Killed on a Train in Southeast Mexico

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico – Two Honduran women traveling with other migrants on a train in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas have been killed, state prosecutors said.

The Chiapas state Attorney General’s Office, which is investigating the double homicide, said witnesses told police that the two victims had been “traveling with a group of migrants in one of the train cars” and that later “they heard guns being shot and then found the lifeless bodies of the two women.”

The incident occurred Thursday afternoon on the railroad between Playas de Catazaja and Crucero Shupa in Palenque municipality.

The young women, identified as Iris Suleida Raudales Flores, 24, and Cynthia Carolina Cruz Bonilla, 19, both from Honduras, had suffered gunshot and knife wounds, the AG’s office said in a statement.

Personnel from the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes Against Immigrants in Chiapas arrived at the scene to begin investigations.

Authorities said that police and Mexican army troops were carrying out inspection and surveillance patrols throughout the area in an attempt to nab the killers.

Official figures show that every year some 300,000 undocumented migrants, mostly Central Americans, cross the more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) of border that Mexico shares with Guatemala and Belize to try and reach the United States.

In recent years, the risk migrants run has increased considerably due to the growing presence of organized crime along their route

Teacher NEWS ( Big Strike - Buenos Aires - 4.5 million students with no classes ) Huge strike

BUENOS AIRES – Teachers in Argentina’s richest and most-populous province on Monday began a two-day strike to demand pay hikes, leaving some 4.5 million students with no classes.

The new job action was launched despite the fact that the Buenos Aires provincial government had warned it would dock the teachers’ pay for the days they did not work.

“We’re demanding that the discussion be resumed on the salary negotiation, which the government said was finished with an increase of 22 percent when we were demanding 30 percent,” a spokesman for the Buenos Aires Educators Association told Efe.

Some 98 percent of the teachers joined the strike, the spokesperson said.

The provincial government proposal starting in March set the minimum teacher’s salary at 3,248 pesos ($616.30) a month, from which point it would be increased gradually to $648 in December.

However, the teachers are demanding a base salary of $948.70 a month.

The teachers planned a 96-hour strike, 48 hours of which will be undertaken starting Monday while the other two days will be taken if the provincial administration continues to refuse to respond to their demands.

So far this year, Buenos Aires teachers have already staged eight strikes and the conflict worsened when the government unilaterally ended the pay negotiations. EFE

Honduras ( Three young kidnap victims were found murdered - Abducted last wednesday )

TEGUCIGALPA – Three young kidnap victims were found murdered Thursday in northern Honduras, authorities said.

The bodies of Elias Canales and Osmar Murcia, both 17, and Jairo Rivera, 18, were dumped on a highway in San Pedro Sula, a police spokesman told journalists.

Canales’ mother, who declined to give her name, said her son and his two friends were abducted Wednesday night in the Brisas de Occidente neighborhood of San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ largest city.

Neither the families nor authorities received any ransom demand.

With an average of 20 homicides per day, Honduras is one of the world’s most violent countries. EFE

Gilbert AZ ( Woman gets 13 yrs in prison - For Abusing adopted son ) Jennifer Barnes

Gilbert woman sentenced for abusing adopted son

Posted: May 31, 2013 2:00 PM

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PHOENIX (AP) - A Gilbert woman has been sentenced to 13 1/2 years in prison and lifetime probation for abusing her adopted son.

Maricopa County prosecutors say 40-year-old Jennifer Barnes was sentenced Friday.

Court paperwork showed the victim was physically and sexually abused by Barnes, who was arrested in September 2011 when the boy was 10.

The boy told police that Barnes allegedly put feces in his mouth and taped it shut, burned sensitive areas of his body with a lighter and curling iron and violated him with a toothbrush.

Police say the boy described multiple incidents of abuse so severe it caused him to bleed and a physical exam discovered scarring consistent with his account of the abuse.

Barnes reportedly was the child's only caregiver during the time of the alleged abuse.

TUCSON Az ( Danger - Mountain Lion Alert - Closed portion of Catalina Mountains )