Mexico City ( Mexico’s government said labeling of meat and other products is discriminatory. )

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s government says it may raise tariffs on U.S. exporters as a retaliatory measure, accusing its northern neighbor of flouting a World Trade Organization ruling on the labeling of meat and other products.

The Economy Secretariat said it was “considering suspending preferential tariffs in a broad range of sectors, such as fruits and vegetables, juices, meat, dairy products, machinery, furniture, and home appliances.”

It noted that the WTO ruled on July 23, 2012, that a 2009 U.S. requirement that retailers show the country of origin on labels of meat and other products, including beef imported from Mexico, was “discriminatory and contrary to that organization’s principles.”

The WTO gave the United States 10 months to comply with the ruling and scrap those labeling standards, the secretariat said, noting that the deadline was May 23.

On that date, however, the United States unveiled new labeling rules that Mexico slammed as even more discriminatory.

Iran NEWS ( Citizen Arrested by Cyber Police for " Insulting God " on Facebook ) Bail 600,000

A citizen arrested for blasphemy in Gilan Province

Posted on: 8th June, 2013

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Iran's Cyber Police monitors the Internet and enforces censorship.

HRANA News Agency – The Cyber Police in Gilan Province has announced that an individual in the city of Rasht has been arrested for blasphemy posted on the Internet. Gilan’s Cyber Police Chief has also reminded all citizens that blasphemy is a crime for which there are severe penalties defined by the lawmakers.

According to a report by Mohabat News and Fars News Agency, Gilan’s Cyber Police has announced that Facebook pages containing blasphemy have been identified. “We have found out who the pages belong to,” Gilan’s Cyber Police Chief Iraj Mohammad-Khani said. “And in a surprise attack, we arrested the perpetrator in the city of Rasht.”
The Cyber Police has searched this individual’s house and seized the necessary evidence. “He has confessed to his crime and has been charged,” Mohammad-Khani said. “The accused is currently behind bars, and the bail has been set at [approximately] $600,000.”

Mexico City ( Four Die in Helicopter Crash in Mexico - Ex mayor one of those who die )

MEXICO CITY – Businessman and politician Juan Ignacio Torres Landa was among four people killed Friday when a helicopter crashed in the central Mexican city of San Luis Potosi, the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, said.

A fifth person was injured in the accident.

“The death of Torres Landa was confirmed by his family. We spoke with his wife and she told us,” Adalberto Valadez, PRI spokesman in the businessman’s home state of Guanajuato, told Efe.

The helicopter, with a pilot, Torres Landa and three associates aboard, crashed on a golf course in San Luis Potosi.

Torres Landa was a former mayor and federal lawmaker who made two unsuccessful runs for governor of Guanajuato, the most recent in 2012.

Mexico’s government secretary, Miguel Angel Osorio, offered condolences to the victims’ families.

“Businessman and statesman, Juan Ignacio Torres Landa was a fine Mexican. We in the PRI lament his death, rest in peace,” the party’s national chair, Cesar Camacho, said on Twitter.

Guanajuato Gov. Miguel Marquez, who defeated Torres Landa in last year’s election, also offered condolences to his late rival’s family. EFE

Mexico City ( Four Gunned Down at Gym in Mexican Capital )

MEXICO CITY – Two suspects were arrested in connection with a shooting at a gym in the Mexican capital that left four people dead, the city’s mayor said Friday.

A pair of brothers and a man accompanying them were pronounced dead at the Body Extreme gym in the downtown Tepito neighborhood, Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said.

The gym owner died later at a hospital of wounds received when he confronted the assailants, according to Milenio Television.

State news agency Notimex said two cars parked near the gym were set on fire at about the same time as the shootings, 9:30 p.m. Thursday.

The cars were torched by the shooters, El Universal newspaper said in its Web edition.

Mancera attributed the violence in Tepito to an “outbreak of some gangs,” ruling out the idea that one of Mexico’s powerful drug cartels has established a presence in the capital.

The fatal shooting at the gym appears to be part of “a direct dispute” among a specific group of people, the mayor told Televisa television.

He said the gym attack, which was witnessed by more than 30 people, does not seem to be connected to the May 26 abduction of 12 Tepito residents from a bar in the capital’s upscale Zona Rosa area.

The municipal government plans to permanently deploy 400 police officers in Tepito as part of a “comprehensive” program for the troubled neighborhood, Mancera said.

The capital has been largely spared the drug-war violence that has claimed more than 70,000 lives in Mexico over the past 6½ years. EFE

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BOLIVIA News ( Vigilante justice - Murder and rape suspect thrown in grave and buried alive with victim )

 

Mob of angry Bolivian villagers teams up in vigilante attack on 17-year-old

Posted Jun 7, 2013 8:47 AM CDT

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(Newser) – Sometimes it takes a village … to enact vigilante justice on an alleged teenage murderer. When police identified 17-year-old Santos Ramos as a suspect in the rape and murder of a 35-year-old near the small Bolivian town of Colquechaca, residents took matters into their own hands. During his alleged victim's Wednesday funeral, a crowd of more than 200 descended on Ramos, tied him up, and tossed him into the woman's still-open grave next to her coffin, the BBC reports.

The grave was then filled with dirt, burying Ramos alive and presumably killing him. Residents apparently also blocked the road to prevent police from intervening. The AP notes it wasn't the only lynching carried out on Wednesday in Potosi province: Residents of Tres Cruces attacked two suspected thieves who were alleged to have robbed a car and killed its driver; one was stoned to death, the other burned alive

Mexico City ( Arrest warrants obtained for 3 suspects - In kidnapping of 11 people from Bar )

Missing Youths Were Taken from Mexico City Bar, Attorney Says

MEXICO CITY – The 12 young people who have been missing since late last month in Mexico City were taken from the bar where they had met up in the Zona Rosa tourist district, attorney Ricardo Martinez told Efe on Thursday.

The investigators’ file “contains information that shows they were inside (the Heaven bar) and were, in fact, taken from there,” Martinez, who represents the families of the missing youths, said.

“I cannot tell you what this” information is because it is part of the sealed case file, the attorney, who examined the documents on Wednesday, said, adding that he had not seen any videos showing the group being led away from the bar.

Federal District Attorney Rodolfo Rios met with the victims’ relatives on Tuesday and played security videos for them that “show how some of the kids arrive in two vehicles, a red vehicle and a taxi, and get out,” the attorney said.

Martinez said he planned to meet with the DA on Friday to get a briefing on the state of the investigation.

An arrest warrant was obtained and served on three people who may be linked to the disappearance of the 12 young people, Rios said earlier this week.

The suspects – two men and a woman – were taken to the holding facility at the DA’s office.

The young people were led away from the Heaven bar in the Zona Rosa by masked gunmen on May 26, relatives and a young man who managed to escape said.

The victims, who were employed and liked to spend time at the bar, were led away from the establishment to waiting SUVs by men dressed in black who identified themselves as police officers, relatives said.

The victims are from Tepito, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Mexico City and a center for sales of pirated goods.

One of the missing youths is Jerry Ortiz Ponce, a 16-year-old boy whose jailed father, Jorge Ortiz Reyes, is one of the leaders of the La Union gang, media reports said.

Ortiz Reyes is still running the criminal organization from prison, media reports said.

A rival gang may have staged the kidnapping to settle a score with La Union following the killing of a drug dealer in Mexico City two days before the youths disappeared, press reports said.

Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said earlier this week that large drug cartels were not operating in the capital.

“We have not detected any trace of this,” the mayor said in response to questions from reporters. EFE