Mexico ( Self Defense Groups - Citizen patrol - Extend to the Center of the Country ) Cartel violence

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The first self defense group in Tlaxcala
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Federal and state authorities have yet to find a solution to respond to the people of Michoacán and Guerrero, where insecurity has prompted the creation of self-defense groups, but in Tlaxcala, a state where there hadn’t been any news of a citizen’s front, the state’s first Community Police has emerged.Yesterday, citizens of the municipal of Papalotla armed themselves with machetes, sticks, and pipes to protect its people and to stand up against crime and government corruption.

Earlier this year, self-defense groups were registered in at least eight states.  Michoacán and Guerrero are the states with the largest number of communities with armed civilians and that register more clashes and violence.

But far from being solved, the problem—albeit legal—where citizens arm themselves and set up checkpoints, has spread.

In recent weeks, the situation in Michoacán has prompted federal and state officials to meet to discuss the crisis of insecurity and violence in the state.

According to the governor of Michoacán, Jesús Reyna, the meeting built “a common agenda that benefits Michoacános”.  However, not even a week had passed when the Mexican Army, State Police, and Self-Defense Groups of Guerrero and Michoacán were in moments of tension, which caused roadblocks and military operations.

 

On Monday, residents of El Pericón in Guerrero detained federal and state officials due to a lack of compromises with authorities, and the group of soldiers who remained in the town, after reaching an agreement with Governor Ángel Aguirre Rivero and the Secretariat of the Interior.In Aquila, Michoacán, the Army dismantled a self defense group for arresting a soldier.  After the rescue of their fellow soldier and the disarmament of the community, the military left the area.  As they left, the citizens, who complained of the authorities’ indolence to their security problems, returned to their posts.

Michoacán has turned into a war zone in recent weeks.  In seven days, according to official figures, at least 42 people have died in clashes.  Before the violence, Enrique Peña Nieto said that his administration would stand up to the problem and support the authorities of Michoacán in recovering territories and “rebuild the social fabric” in Michoacán.

“The purpose is to support the state government, but also backing and supporting the Federal government, especially in dealing with the complication and the complexity involved in rebuilding the social fabric of Michoacán”, said the president.

However, last Tuesday, the coordinator for the members of the National Action Party (PAN) in the Congress of Michoacán, Alfonso Martínez Alcázar, denounced the lack of attention of the President Enrique Peña Nieto about the crisis in the state and for not having visited the state in the eight months of his Presidency.

Papalota, Tlaxcala. With sticks and tubes, they have armed their community police.
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Tlaxcala and Its First Self Defense Group

Yesterday, residents of Papalotla, Tlaxcala, formed the first self defense group in the state in order to protect the people as well as motorcycle taxi drivers, to fend off crime and corruption in the operations that the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation performs.

Armed with sticks and machetes, around 60 civilians formed the police, who along with residents, protested against the operations conducted by the state government, as they have been assaulted during attacks.

The local press indicates that the conflict has lasted over three years and according to the leader of the motorcycle taxis, Mariela Pérez Rojano, they have been constantly repressed by the security forces, allegedly abusing their authority.

“That’s why the community police are to defend all of the people, the motorcycle taxi drivers and the people who use the motorcycle taxis, because more violence occurs with the execution of operations”, said one witness.

Tired of this situation, they declare that it was necessary in order to ensure the protection of the users and operators of the motorcycle taxis, through the use of the community police.

They said that the municipal and state governments have been unable to create jobs and security and that is another reason why motorcycle taxi workers have found that job as a means of providing for their families.

 

Mexico ( The King of the mexican Cartels " Gets out of jail " after 28 yrs ) Caro Quintero

15 Things About the First Famous Mexican Narco Drug Lord-Who is Caro Quintero?VIDEO

Published at 11:50 am EST, August 12, 2013

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1.)Rafael Caro Quintero was born in the town of Badiraguato, Sinaloa
2.) In this same city Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman,was born, in October 1952.
3.)He is considered one of the founders of Guadalajara Cartel, along with Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo and Ernesto “Don Neto” Fonseca Carrillo.
4.)At the beginning of the 80s, Caro Quintero was considered Mexico’s most powerful drug trafficker.
5.) He was the first famous narco lord, who gained notoriety for his standard of living and the way he often said he sought to help the needy.
6.) His fortune grew so large that, some said he offered to pay the external debt of Mexico in exchange to allow him to continue his drug trafficking activities and stop their pursuit.
7.) He owned large tracts of land in Chihuahua,  a ranch called “The Buffalo”.
8.) He planted marijuana plants with an irrigation system and was producing crops all year.
9.) In November 1984, U.S. officials and members of the Mexican Army conducted a drug seizure of more than 10,000 tons of marijuana at his ranch.
10.) Caro Quintero had full control over the police forces through gifts and bribery.
11.) Three months after the seizure of thousands of tons of marijuana on February 7, 1985, a group of men serving Enrique Camarena Salazar kidnapped a DEA agent and his pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar.
12.) In March 1985, the bodies of Camarena and Zavala were found on a ranch in Michoacan, which was then ruled by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano.
13.) Caro Quintero fled to Costa Rica where he was arrested in April 1985 in a drug operation.
14.)It is reported that at his arrest authorities seized weapons that were gold plated and diamond encrusted.
15.)He was taken to Mexico where h was sentenced to 40 years in prison. But on Friday a collegiate court in criminal matters of Jalisco granted an injunction and ordered the immediate freedom of Rafael Caro Quintero after 28 years of being imprisoned.

Missing woman ( Missing Irish Woman Arrested in Peru with 5 Kilos of Cocaine )

Published at 9:22 am EST, August 12, 2013

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An Irishwoman reported missing by her family was arrested by drug enforcement agents at Lima’s Jorge Chavez International Airport, Peruvian police said Sunday.
The 20-year-old woman, Michaella McCollum Connolly, was arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle five kilos of cocaine out of the South American country.
A 19-year-old British citizen, Melissa Reid, was arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle six kilos from Peru into Spain.
The two young women were detained last Tuesday when they tried to board a flight to Madrid, a drug enforcement agency spokesman told Efe.
The two women were traveling together and had hidden the cocaine inside containers of food and condiments packed in their suitcases.
McCollum Connolly was reported missing by relatives after they lost contact with her following a trip to the Spanish Mediterranean island of Ibiza.
The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs helped the family search for McCollum Connolly, placing her photograph in European publications.

Mexico Juarez ( Lieutenant for " El Chapo " Killed in Chihuahua )

Published at 3:48 pm EST, August 12, 2013

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Gabino Salas Valenciano, known as “El Ingeniero” (the engineer), was a lieutenant in the Sinaloa cartel. He had been linked too much of the violence that has engulfed the Juárez region.
In control of the smuggling routes in the Valley of Juárez for Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman’s Sinaloa drug cartel , he was killed in a shootout on Thursday, Chihuahua officials said Friday.
Juárez police sources told the Norte newspaper that Salas was allegedly directly involved in the recent attacks on Juárez police, which were in retaliation for attempts to capture him.
The Sinaloa cartel led by reputed kingpin Guzman is believed to have seized control of the valley southeast of Juárez during the war with the Juárez drug cartel.
Salas was wanted in El Paso by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on multiple charges, including drug conspiracy, smuggling of cocaine and marijuana, kidnapping and murder.

CHANDLER Az ( A Guadalupe man released from jail steals police ambulance and drives it home )

CHANDLER, AZ - A Guadalupe man walked out of an Arizona police station Sunday morning and allegedly decided to steal an ambulance and drive home.
Joe Favazzo, spokesman for the Chandler Police Department, said 33-year-old Cesar Garcia was arrested Sunday morning for having an open container at a store near north Alma School Road and Warner Road.


He was released with a citation for the misdemeanor crime.
According to police, Garcia then hopped into a parked ambulance and drove it to his home in Guadalupe.
The suspect originally told police he would walk home. The ambulance was located by the Tempe Police Department a short time later.
Information as to why the ambulance was at the Chandler Police Department was not immediately available. No other details were released.


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Iran News ( 6 women to be Executed - 2 women killed husbands in self-defense )

9 July 2013

Letter by a number of death row prisoners at Rajai Shahr prison to the head of the judiciary

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Committee of Human Rights Reporters – A group of prisoners at Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj wrote a letter to Ayatollah Larjani, head of the Ministry of Justice. The letter, which was provided to CHRR, is below.

With respect and regards

We decided to write you a letter hundreds of times to tell you of our grievances and the hardships we endure, but we knew that the letters would never reach your hands. Therefore a group of us prisoners out of desperation feel obligated to send you our message through the news media.

Mr. Larijani,

For years during our incarceration we have been witness to our dearest friends being executed. We have spent Wednesday nights in tears and prayers. Last week Behjat Kermzadeh and Sogand Jahani were transferred from the women’s ward at Rajai Shahar for execution. By the grace of god and your orders a moratorium was issued and the executions did not take place. The stay of execution was granted to Behjat in prison but Sogand was taken to at the gallows and witnessed six men being executed. Now our 23-year-old Sogand looks like she is 40 years old – she aged 20 years overnight.

Honorable Mr. Larijani,

Informed sources say that this coming Wednesday, 6 female prisoners will be taken to the gallows and one of them is the 28 year old Sahar Mehabadi. Because they could not afford lawyers, she and Sogand Jahani were assigned public defenders who did not prepare or present adequate representation in court.

Honorable Mr. Larijani,

If you conduct a review of these cases you will see that these two women killed their spouses in self-defense without pre meditation. We desperately plead with your Excellency to grant a stay of execution for these two women.

The worried in waiting, Raheleh Zokayi and a group of death row prisoners

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