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Sunday, November 10, 2013
Mexico ( Israeli photojournalist Shaul Schwarz - New documentary Narco culture )
The Israeli photojournalist Shaul Schwarz made a documentary on the border of Mexico and the U.S. , which warns that children mythologize and admire the lives of the lords .
The Israeli photojournalist Shaul Schwarz is convinced that the phenomenon of narcocorrido is the tip of the iceberg of a new way of understanding life and also death. It crosses borders and whose essence has tried to capture in the new documentary Narco culture.
The film premiered in the U.S. yesterday , follow the steps in Los Angeles of a Narcocorridos author , Edgar Quintero , leader of the band " Buknas " , Culiacan, and a policeman in Ciudad Juarez Richi Soto , in their day to day
investigating the bloody murders that later become song. a culture on the rise. It is a fact that a new generation that sees these guys ( the drug dealers ) as a kind of Robin Hood , said Schwarz , who insists that this goes beyond a fad.
It's in the movies, on clothing, in dialect , is in everything. Families in Juarez do not choose to have a crime scene in front of his house. " Culture is what is around you , the songs are part of that," he said.
Narco Culture was shot over two years between Mexico and the United States, a period in which Schwarz and his team looked closely at the evidence collected violence and trafficking , drug traffickers fans and artists , as XXI century troubadours , exploits the killings become heroes and villains.
To all the people you love the stories of those who live outside the law , from Tony Soprano to The Godfather . " If you look at what is happening in Mexico you realize that the bad guys are winning the battle and some children mythologize . Follows dream of Chapo Guzman ," said Schwarz .
Read more: http://www.elblogdelnarco.net/2013/11/ninos-admiran-la-vida-de-los-capos.html # ixzz2kGENgRTcFollow us : @ MundoNarco on Twitter
The Israeli photojournalist Shaul Schwarz is convinced that the phenomenon of narcocorrido is the tip of the iceberg of a new way of understanding life and also death. It crosses borders and whose essence has tried to capture in the new documentary Narco culture.
The film premiered in the U.S. yesterday , follow the steps in Los Angeles of a Narcocorridos author , Edgar Quintero , leader of the band " Buknas " , Culiacan, and a policeman in Ciudad Juarez Richi Soto , in their day to day
investigating the bloody murders that later become song. a culture on the rise. It is a fact that a new generation that sees these guys ( the drug dealers ) as a kind of Robin Hood , said Schwarz , who insists that this goes beyond a fad.
It's in the movies, on clothing, in dialect , is in everything. Families in Juarez do not choose to have a crime scene in front of his house. " Culture is what is around you , the songs are part of that," he said.
Narco Culture was shot over two years between Mexico and the United States, a period in which Schwarz and his team looked closely at the evidence collected violence and trafficking , drug traffickers fans and artists , as XXI century troubadours , exploits the killings become heroes and villains.
To all the people you love the stories of those who live outside the law , from Tony Soprano to The Godfather . " If you look at what is happening in Mexico you realize that the bad guys are winning the battle and some children mythologize . Follows dream of Chapo Guzman ," said Schwarz .
Read more: http://www.elblogdelnarco.net/2013/11/ninos-admiran-la-vida-de-los-capos.html # ixzz2kGENgRTcFollow us : @ MundoNarco on Twitter
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Iran ( No medical treatment for " Blind Woman " Zeynab Jalalian )
Posted on: 9th November, 2013
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), in response to bad physical condition of Zeynab Jalalian, prison authorities promised to send her to medical furlough one month ago.
Nevertheless, few days ago, she was informed that her request is rejected by security services and she cannot take any effective procedure.
This prisoner has been suffering from bad health condition, especially visual problem and recently has lost her sight.
Zeynab Jalalian was arrested by Kermanshah intelligence and security forces, in 2007, and first sentenced to death, and then to life prison.
This political prisoner has been under severe pressure and had gone to hunger strike several times.
Needed to be mentioned, earlier on a published report by media, reason of vision problems of Zeynab Jalalian was stated as stroke during interrogation.
Friday, November 8, 2013
Mexico ( Mayor was Killed - Did not die in a car crash ) False report
MEXICO CITY – The embattled mayor of the western Mexican town of Santa Ana Maya was murdered by organized crime, political allies said, rejecting media accounts that Ygnacio Lopez Mendoza died in a car crash.“It is another cunning crime against our comrade municipal president, as the family informed us that he arrived at his home at midnight and was taken from there by several people ... and appeared dead hours later,” the Association of Mexican Local Authorities said.
Lopez Mendoza “suffered during his administration, not only the lack of resources, but also the harassment of organized crime,” the association said.
The association called on authorities in Michoacan state to investigate the mayor’s death.
Nearly 50 current and former mayors have been slain in Mexican during the last eight years, the association noted.
Federal lawmaker Aleida Alavez Ruiz asked her colleagues in the lower house to observe a moment of silence for Lopez Mendoza.
The mayor, she said, “was murdered this early morning and just returned to his community after 15 days of a hunger strike outside the Senate of the Republic to denounce extortion on the part of organized crime.”
“It is a great tragedy what is happening in our country, not just in Michoacan, so we join that demand for investigation and justice,” another lawmaker, Magdalena del Socorro Nuñez Monreal, said of the mayor’s death
Mexico ( Mexican Police Rescue 61 Migrants from Traffickers )
MEXICO CITY – Mexican police rescued a total of 61 migrants from traffickers in several different operations along the country’s northern border with the United States, the federal security spokesman said Friday.Some of the migrants told police they had been held for a week “in inhumane conditions,” Eduardo Sanchez said.
The captives were rescued from six different locations in the vicinity of Reynosa, Tamaulipas state, just across the border from McAllen, Texas.
The group included 27 Hondurans and 20 Salvadorans.
Rescued along with the migrants were a 2-year-old girl and eight other minors.
Four people ranging in age from 18 to 36 were arrested on suspicion of human trafficking and kidnapping, among other offenses, Sanchez said.
“Some of the people rescued said they had been abducted in different actions and places along the border strip when they tried to cross the border with the United States,” the spokesman said.
Mexico’s INM immigration service took charge of the migrants.
Hundreds of thousands of 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 authorities say.
Super Hero News ( Ms. Marvel: Muslim girl super hero in Comic book )
Ms. Marvel: Marvel Comics new character Kamala Khan, a teen geek from a Pakistani family in New Jersey offers a great new role model. And, says this mom with Jersey roots: It's marvelous that Ms. Marvel presents an alternative to Snookie's representation of Garden State youth.
Ms. Marvel, Marvel Comic's latest addition to the Marvel Universe, is the its first female Muslim character. Parents may be pleasantly surprised by Ms. Marvel's modest attire.
Adrian Alphona/Marvel Comics
Parents of every religion can appreciate Marvel Comics’ decision to bring back Ms. Marvel as a lead character beautifully dressed and styled, yet modest and super powerful as a teenage Muslim girl living in New Jersey.
Chinatown ( Police arrest 54 people in protest at Los Angeles Walmart )
November 8, 2013 9:59AM ET
Police in Los Angeles have arrested 54 people among more than 200 who were protesting outside Walmart's newly opened Chinatown store against the company’s treatment of employees.
Authorities said the demonstration Thursday evening was peaceful, but they declared it an unlawful assembly when many of the protesters sat in a circle that blocked the street and then refused to disperse.
The store, which opened in September, has spurred protests since its planning stages. Most have been carried out by labor groups criticizing the company's employment practices, with accusations of low pay, arbitrary cuts in hours and alleged retaliation for speaking out against the company.
"Walmart impacts us all — if the workers don't speak up, then who will?" Walmart worker Anthony Goytia asked on Thursday ahead of the demonstration in Los Angeles County, where Walmart says it has more than 13,000 employees.
Elizabeth Brennan, with the labor group Warehouse Workers United, told Al Jazeera on Friday that about 100 of the protesters were Walmart workers, and that five Walmart workers were among the people arrested. However, none of those involved in Thursday's protest work at the Chinatown store. Many of the other protesters were activists and other supporters of the employees’ cause.
Walmart spokesman Kory Lundberg told Al Jazeera on Friday: "The reason you see so few, if any, Walmart associates participating in these events is because they understand Walmart offers more opportunities for advancement than other companies in America." The company routinely refers to employees as “associates.”
Walmart has contended on numerous occasions that protesting workers are not representative of the vast majority of its hourly employees.
But while Walmart says more than 475,000 of its 1 million employees in the U.S. earn more than $25,000 a year, hundreds of thousands of others make less than that, and many say the income is not enough to support their families.
Authorities said the demonstration Thursday evening was peaceful, but they declared it an unlawful assembly when many of the protesters sat in a circle that blocked the street and then refused to disperse.
The store, which opened in September, has spurred protests since its planning stages. Most have been carried out by labor groups criticizing the company's employment practices, with accusations of low pay, arbitrary cuts in hours and alleged retaliation for speaking out against the company.
"Walmart impacts us all — if the workers don't speak up, then who will?" Walmart worker Anthony Goytia asked on Thursday ahead of the demonstration in Los Angeles County, where Walmart says it has more than 13,000 employees.
Elizabeth Brennan, with the labor group Warehouse Workers United, told Al Jazeera on Friday that about 100 of the protesters were Walmart workers, and that five Walmart workers were among the people arrested. However, none of those involved in Thursday's protest work at the Chinatown store. Many of the other protesters were activists and other supporters of the employees’ cause.
Walmart spokesman Kory Lundberg told Al Jazeera on Friday: "The reason you see so few, if any, Walmart associates participating in these events is because they understand Walmart offers more opportunities for advancement than other companies in America." The company routinely refers to employees as “associates.”
Walmart has contended on numerous occasions that protesting workers are not representative of the vast majority of its hourly employees.
But while Walmart says more than 475,000 of its 1 million employees in the U.S. earn more than $25,000 a year, hundreds of thousands of others make less than that, and many say the income is not enough to support their families.
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