Mexico ( Honduran migrant women filed an extortion complaint - Two days later they were killed by the men )

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico – The two Honduran migrants whose bodies were found last week in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas were killed because they reported being targeted by extortionists, San Cristobal de Las Casas Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel said.

Iris Suleida Raudales Flores, 24, and Cynthia Carolina Cruz Bonilla, 19, were murdered last Thursday.

The women “had filed a complaint two days earlier about the extortion they were being subjected to,” the bishop said.

“It is an international embarrassment” that Mexico “does not provide greater protection to those crossing” its territory, Arizmendi said.

Nine illegal Honduran immigrants who allegedly belong to Central American gangs dedicated to extortion and robberies of migrants have been arrested in connection with the murders, officials said.

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

“In their countries of origin, especially El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, they cannot find ways of improving their economic situation, they suffer from the violence of the street gangs and in their desperation, despite knowing the dangers they are exposing themselves to,” try to cross Mexico, Arizmendi said.

The bodies of Raudales Flores and Cruz Bonilla were found outside Palenque, a city in Chiapas where “gangs of criminals rob, extort money from, abuse and murder” migrants, the bishop said.

The women’s bodies were taken to the Honduran Consulate in Tapachula for repatriation and release to their families, the Chiapas Attorney General’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. EFE

Venezuela ( U.S Filmmaker moved to prison with killers - alleged Spy Venezuela Government said )

U.S. Filmmaker Jailed in Venezuela Moved to Notorious Prison
“El Rodeo is an overcrowded jungle where hundreds of inmates have been killed and injured over the years in riots, violence and attacks,” said Russell Dallen, managing partner of Caracas Capital Markets and publisher of the Latin American Herald Tribune. “Sending him to this fifth circle of hell – and away from the headquarters of the (government’s) intelligence service – clearly is an acknowledgment that he was not a spy. Where are Sean Penn and Oliver Stone now?”

By Anna Marie de la Fuente

CARACAS – U.S. documentary filmmaker Tim Tracy, arrested in Venezuela for alleged espionage last April, was transferred on May 29 to the notorious El Rodeo II prison outside Caracas.

Tracy and 20 others were transferred from their cells within the government intelligence service building because of a severe bacterial outbreak. Tracy is slated to attend a hearing on June 11, which will determine whether his case will proceed to trial or he will be released.

Human rights director Patricia Andrade of Miami-based Venezuela Awareness Foundation said the El Rodeo II prison is virtually a death sentence for him.

“He’s a political prisoner and I don’t understand why the Venezuelan government is committing the horror, not error, of sending him there,” said Andrade. “El Rodeo is for convicted prisoners and Tracy hasn’t even been tried yet, and he can’t even speak Spanish well.”

El Rodeo II was the site of a riot in 2011 where 25 people, including visitors, were killed during a shootout between two gangs within the prison complex.

“El Rodeo is an overcrowded jungle where hundreds of inmates have been killed over the years in riots, violence and attacks,” said Russell Dallen, managing partner of Caracas Capital Markets and publisher of Latin American Herald Tribune. “Sending him to this fifth circle of hell – and away from the headquarters of the (government’s) intelligence service – clearly is an acknowledgment that he was not a spy. Where are Sean Penn and Oliver Stone now?”

Tracy was arrested on April 24 for allegedly funneling funds to student groups opposing the new government of President-elect Nicolas Maduro, who won the post-Chavez elections on April 14 by a tiny margin. Opposition leader Henrique Capriles led accusations of electoral fraud as thousands took to the streets in protest, with seven reported killed amid the civil unrest. Tracy was picked up soon after, along with the videos he had been filming for a documentary he was making about the political situation in Venezuela.

India NEWS ( Actor Jiah Khan commits suicide at her Mumbai residence ) Beautiful woman

Actor Jiah Khan commits suicide at her Mumbai residence

Press Trust of India | Updated: June 04, 2013 04:49 IST

 

 

Mumbai: Bollywood actor Jiah Khan has committed suicide, police in Mumbai said. The 25-year old actor reportedly hanged herself at her Juhu residence late Monday night.

According to the police, her domestic help, watchman and neighbours are being questioned to find out about her last visitors.

Jiah made her acting debut in Ram Gopal Varma's 'Nishabd' where she acted opposite Amitabh Bachchan. The film released in March 2007 and received mixed reviews, but Jiah was noted for her confidence, attitude, and sex appeal. She also got a Filmfare Best Debutant Nomination.
She then appeared alongside Aamir Khan in AR Murugadoss's 'Ghajini', the Hindi remake of the director's own Tamil film of the same name.

Her last film was Sajid Khan's 'Housefull' in 2010 with Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Riteish Deshmukh and Lara Dutta.

OMG News ( Taco Bell investigation - Employee caught licking shells ) See photo

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Taco Bell is saying it believes a photo posted to its Facebook page of an apparent employee licking a stack of taco shells is a prank but it is "conducting a full-scale investigation."
A photo of a man in uniform in a Taco Bell restaurant is seen licking a stack of about 30 taco shells.
A spokesman for Taco Bell, owned by Yum! Brands, said the company is investigating in which store the photo was taken and will issue a full statement.
Here's more about the Taco Bell photo and seven other examples of fast food mayhem that were posted to the Internet.

Iran News ( 7 people have died after drinking poisoned alcohol - 300 more sick )

NCRI - At least seven people have died and dozens more blinded or sent to hospital after drinking poisoned alcohol in southern Iranian city of Rafsanjan.
Another 300 more people were said to have suffered from the toxic effects of the illegally distilled brew on Sunday that has shocked clerics, authorities, and military officials in the city of 300,000 people.


Last week local media reported that another 10 people had died and 15 others went into comas from the same poisoned batch of alcohol - however victim's families believed the number of deaths so far was much higher.
The governor of Rafsanjan - a relatively wealthy region at the center of Iran’s pistachio cultivation - said the incidents may be part of a plot to influence the June 14 presidential election by lowering voter turnout to undermine the regime.
Friday prayer leader Abbas Ramezani-Pour said: "Some of the city's youths have been poisoned by drinking ergogenic drinks.
"Some people are trying to question the revolutionary and religious face of Rafsanjan by spreading rumors. Similar incidents have caused up to 20 deaths in other cities but nobody has said anything."
Ali Rassoulian, head of martyr foundation and veteran affairs in Rafsanjan, described the poisoning as 'the enemy’s new conspiracy to ruin Rafsanjan’s religious face'.
He said: "All agencies and institutions of Rafsanjan will stand up to thwart these enemy conspiracies."
And governor Akbar Pourmohammadi told the state-run Fars news agency: "We are creating a political epic in this election, but some people are trying to create an atmosphere in which they can achieve their mischievous goals."
Hamid Najmedin of the Rafsanjan Medical Science University also told a news Web site: "All of the victims were young. Those who died were men under the age of 27."
Alcohol consumption is illegal under Iran's Islamic laws and punishable by lashing or even death, yet the mortality rate due to its consumption has risen by 23 per cent since last year, according to regime officials.

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Israel News ( Israeli women soldiers reprimanded for posing in underwear )

A group of Israeli female soldiers have been disciplined after posting pictures of themselves in their underwear on Facebook in the latest social media embarrassment to hit Israel's armed forces.

Israeli female soldiers have been disciplined after posting pictures of themselves in their underwear on Facebook in the latest social media embarrassment to hit Israel's armed forces.

By Robert Tait, Jerusalem

2:50PM BST 03 Jun 2013

One picture showed four women, who are new recruits, dropping their army trousers to reveal the thongs they were wearing underneath. One woman in the photo was dressed only in her bra and pants.

Another image showed five scantily clad recruits wearing only helmets and a small covering of combat equipment.

Walla, an Israeli news website, showed the pictures with faces and exposed areas partly blurred.

The pictures received multiple "likes" on Facebook, along with numerous enthusiastic comments.

The enthusiasm was not shared by Israel's commanding military brass, who announced that the women had been given stern "educational lectures" about their future conduct.