Mexico ( 54 dead in 3 days - In gun battles with the drug cartels - Press is Silent )

Thursday August 8, 2013

Blog del Narco: 54 dead in Three days in Zacatecas, Tamaulipas and Sinaloa; Press is Silent

Published at 11:35 am EST, August 8, 2013

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For the past three days violence has plagued the town of Zacatecas (Central Mexico) and the cities of Reynosa (northeast) and Culiacan. Officials remain silent about the clashes that have left dozens of victims.
In Zacatecas, the national press reported 46 deaths in three consecutive nights in clashes between rival drug cartels in the municipalities of Fresnillo, Jerez (localities 200,000 and 50,000 inhabitants about 60 kilometers from the state capital) and Valparaiso.
On Thursday, two convoys met in Fresnillo leaving 38 dead, according to sources cited by La Jornada. On Friday night, a car chase ended with eight dead and five missing. On Saturday, one passerby was injured in another shooting in the city of Rio Grande. In Reynosa (Tamaulipas), five people were killed and nine were injured in clashes between police and suspected members of drug cartel early Saturday. At least three people were killed in another shootout with federal agents in Culiacan.
This city is the capital of Sinaloa, a state that is the birthplace of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, the most powerful drug trafficker in Mexico, and the Sinaloa cartel leader.
Security analysts believe that the capture of the leader of the Zetas likely triggered a battle for control that would involve the Gulf and the Sinaloa cartels.
No official source has reported the events, and the local papers make no mention at all.  Last February, several media outlets signed the agreement ‘for our image’ with the PRI government to “improve the perception” of the State. The media agreed not to publish on the front-page information or photographs of clashes between cartels, criminal acts and murders. Social networking has taken over though.
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Pakistan ( 9 children die in a attack after a Soccer match )

At Least 9 Children Die in Attack after Soccer Match in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD – At least nine children died in the wee hours of Wednesday when a bomb exploded at the exit gate of a soccer game in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, a police official told Efe.

The attack, which wounded about 20 people, came in the residential neighborhood of Lyari when a motorcycle bomb was detonated by remote control as the spectators were leaving the stadium, police official Salim Marwat said.

“Specifically, the children who died were between 10 and 13 years of age and they were playing soccer on a street by the stadium when the bomb exploded near them,” Marwat told Efe, adding that the attack occurred at 2 a.m. (2100 GMT on Tuesday).

Some local media reported that the death toll was 11.

Another Karachi police official, Tariq Dharejo, told local channel Geo that the target of the attack, responsibility for which has not yet been claimed, was a member of the regional cabinet, Javed Nagori, who was uninjured.

The attack came after four other explosions went off, but produced no casualties, at various points around Karachi, the country’s most populous city with some 20 million residents.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, “energetically” condemned the attacks in Karachi in a communique.

The financial capital of the country, Karachi is also the Pakistani urban area with the highest rate of violent deaths.

To organized crime with a political backdrop can be added the recurring sectarian violence that regularly hits the country’s religious minorities, almost all of whom are represented in the city’s various neighborhoods. EFE

Arizona eloy ( Dreamers (9) released from Eloy Detention Center )

UPDATE: DREAMers released, heading to Tucson

Posted: Aug 7, 2013 3:58 PM by Associated Press
Updated: Aug 7, 2013 4:19 PM

 

TUCSON - The nine Mexican immigrants who include some who were living in the United States illegally have been released from a detention center in Eloy, Ariz.
Those deportees will be arriving in Tucson at the Greyhound Bus Station Wednesday afternoon.

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August 7, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Homeland Security Department tentatively approved asylum requests for nine Mexican immigrants, including some who were living in the United States illegally but left and attempted to re-enter as part of a protest against U.S. deportation policies

Police stop ( Cop breaks 84 year old mans neck during arrest )

SUN CITY, AZ ( " Mercy Killing " elderly man found with a weapon and wife deceased in house )

SUN CITY, AZ - The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating what may be the second "mercy killing" in the town of Sun City in less than a year.
According to MCSO spokesperson Joaquin Enriquez, sheriff deputies received a curious call from a home near Del Webb Boulevard and Tropicana Circle just before 9 a.m. Wednesday.


When deputies arrived at the scene, they found an elderly man, a weapon, and the man’s wife inside.
According to Enriquez, it appears the woman inside died from multiple gunshot wounds.
The investigation is still in the preliminary stages.
If the incident is determined to be a "mercy killing", it would be the second in Sun City in just nine months.
In November 2012, George Sanders was arrested for killing his wife Virginia Sanders. Sanders was given probation in March.
Officials have not yet released the names of anyone involved.
Stay with abc15.com for updates as they develop.


Read more: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_west_valley/sun_city/mcso-investigating-possible-mercy-killing-in-sun-city#ixzz2bJtgru5T

San Diego ( Amber Alert - New update Video )

Dreamers are Doers ( The Dream " 9 " start Hunger strike in ELOY PRISON and win their asylum )

Update, 5 p.m.: Lizbeth Mateo and Marco Saavedra, along with the rest of the Dream 9, are now eligible for asylum.
A group of young undocumented immigrants who sought to cross the border in Arizona several weeks ago moved a step closer to a possible release from custody on Monday.
See Also: DREAMers Cross the Border to Raise Awareness About Deportations
The Dream 9, as the young people call themselves, entered the U.S. from Mexico to protest immigration policies that have deported more than 1.6 million people since 2009.
Seven of the nine DREAMers were able to show that they have a "credible fear" of returning to their home country, a step forward in their request for asylum, according to the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA), the group that organized the action.
The status of the other two DREAMers, Marco Saavedra and Lizbeth Mateo, has not yet been disclosed.
Meanwhile, all nine young people remain in custody at the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) decides whether to release them while they fight their cases.


ICE declined a request for comment.
"Since their credible fear test has been passed, there is no reason for them to wait months and months to be released," NIYA organizer Mohammad Abdollahi said last night at a vigil in front of the detention center. "These folks are not a flight risk. They all were trying to come into the country."
At the vigil, more than a dozen family members and supporters stood in a circle, praying for the detained. Among them was one mother whose son was not with the Dream 9 but had since sought their support regarding his deportation case. "I know that you feel our pain," she said in a prayer, her voice trembling.
The action has brought more deportee cases to light, according to organizers. And the Dream 9 have helped migrants connect with legal support, even while in detention themselves.
Abdollahi said that they have been presented with 46 cases, and they plan to help those detainees seek release.
Meanwhile, the Dream 9 also organized a two-day hunger strike in the detention center, and were joined by 70 other women, according to Abdollahi.
At the moment, he said there are a dozen women who are on a partial fast, eating only one meal a day and refusing to go outside or buy anything from the store in the detention center.
"They are doing an all-around boycott of sorts," Abdollahi said.
But the action has not gone without retaliation from prison officials. Dream 9 detainee Claudia Amaro said in a phone interview on Monday that there has been a backlash against inmates who've tried to connect with the DREAMers. "Every girl that approached us, [the guards] interview them, they harass them and ask what we were talking about," said the 37-year-old.
And as a result of their organizing, some of the Dream 9 have been confined to solitary confinement, which means they are restricted to their cells 23 hours a day.
One of the DREAMers, María Peniche, remains on suicide watch after dropping into depression due to the restriction.
Peniche is currently serving 15 days in solitary confinement after jumping up along with fellow DREAMer, Lulu Martínez, during dinnertime and beginning a chant of "Undocumented! Unafraid!" in Spanish, according to Colorlines.