Mexico ( professor from "University " and wife killed )

Alejandro Chao, retired professor at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEM) was killed along with his wife inside their home, reported the Morelos Attorney General.

Currently, Chao served as director of the School of Social Work at the UAEM. "We are committed to investigating and with responsible for taking the life of Alejandro Chao and his wife will not go unpunished. # Morelos "published governor Graco Ramirez on his Twitter account. Prosecutors reported that dead bodies were found this morning inside the home located on Tabachín street Bellavista neighborhood of this city, very close to the dependence state

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Mexico ( Drunk Man Opens Fire at Mexico City Airport )

MEXICO CITY – A drunk man got into a traffic accident at the Mexico City International Airport and opened fire when police responded, but no one was injured in the shooting, officials said.

The man was speeding and lost control of his vehicle around 6:45 a.m. Saturday outside the airport’s Terminal 2, the Federal Police said in a statement.

Officers responding to the accident were greeted by gunfire, police said.

The man ran into a nearby parking garage and tried to force two drivers to get out of their vehicles.

The suspect fired several gunshots at the Federal Police officers who gave chase, but he was finally arrested.

The drunk man was disarmed and turned over to prosecutors, who will investigate the incident and charge him.

CARACAS ( Bodyguard of Venezuelan President Murdered )

Bodyguard of Venezuelan President Murdered
One of the bodyguards of the Venezuelan president was shot to death while driving along a Caracas highway on Sunday, the Public Ministry announced

CARACAS – One of the bodyguards of the Venezuelan president was shot to death while driving along a Caracas highway on Sunday, the Public Ministry announced.

Lt. Marco Cortez, 29, died when unknown gunmen fired at his vehicle from another car.

“According to preliminary information, Cortez was traveling in his vehicle on the Valle-Coche highway ... when presumably they started shooting at him from another automobile,” said the Attorney General’s Office in a communique.

Cortez was taken to the Hospital Militar, “where he was admitted without vital signs,” the official text of the announcement read.

The Caracas daily El Universal said that the bodyguard “was attacked by gunfire by individuals who apparently were trying to steal his vehicle from him” when he left a party early Sunday morning with his wife, who was unhurt in the incident and took him to the hospital.

Cortez had been working for the presidential security detail for six years and was a member of one of the “security rings” surrounding late President Hugo Chavez, the predecessor of Nicolas Maduro, the press version said.

Cortez’s murder comes a week after Eliecer Otaiza, a former director of the Venezuelan intelligence service, was killed – according to Maduro – by people who were formerly in power in the South American nation and are now in Miami.

“I cannot provide further details,” said Maduro last Thursday regarding the former Disip intelligence service director, whose body turned up last Saturday along another highway in the capital with four fatal bullet wounds.

Disip was revamped into the Sebin intelligence service.

Venezuela is one of the countries hit hardest by crime and violence, with 11,000 murders last year, according to government figures, although non-governmental organizations place the number at about 25,000.

Mexico ( A man was found dead and signs of torture in San Pablo ) cartel wars

A man of about 55, was found dead on the side of the UH, San Pablo in Karachi, on Line 5 with the asphalt.


The body showed signs of torture and a message written on the back and chest with black marker. 

The discovery occurred about 00:30 am when neighbors reported to police patrols in the vicinity of the Northern Axis 5 a person had been shot. Officers arrived on the scene along with an ambulance of the Red Cross and Civil Protection Atzcapotzalco and corroborated the report of the emergency.

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Ukraine ( 38 die in blaze Amid Political Clashes in Odessa )

 
KIEV – A fire at a union hall amid political clashes Friday in the southern city of Odessa caused 38 deaths, Ukraine’s provisional government said.

“Thirty-eight people died as a result of the fire: eight of them jumped out the windows on finding themselves trapped and the rest were asphyxiated,” the interior ministry said in a statement.

Another 50 people were hurt in the blaze, including 10 members of the security forces, the statement said.

Four people were killed earlier Friday in Odessa during violent confrontations between supporters and opponents of the government in Kiev.

One of the four died of a gunshot wound, a police source said.

Three police officers were among at least a dozen other people hurt as Kiev loyalists and their mainly Russian-speaking opponents battled each other with clubs, stones and other rudimentary weapons.

Rowdy supporters of the local soccer club took part in the clash on the pro-Kiev side.

The anti-Kiev protesters took refuge in the union hall shortly before the fire broke out.

Russia’s RT television said the blaze was deliberately set by members of Right Sector, a Ukrainian ultra-nationalist group affiliated with the government in Kiev.

The disturbances in Odessa, Ukraine’s third-largest city, came hours after Ukrainian armed forces launched a military operation to wrest control of the southeastern city of Sloviansk from ethnic-Russian militias opposed to the Kiev government.

Ukraine’s interior ministry said two of its helicopters were shot down by missiles during the operation.

Two military personnel were killed and seven others wounded, the head of the provisional government, Oleksander Turchinov, said, adding that the insurgents suffered “significant losses.”

Sloviansk has been blockaded by the Ukrainian troops, who have deployed a score of helicopters in their offensive, militia leader Igor Strelkov said.

Long-simmering tensions between pro-European western Ukraine and the country’s eastern region, which has close ties with Russia, were exacerbated by the ouster in late February of President Viktor Yanukovych, a Russian-speaker from the East.

The crisis that led to Yanukovych’s ouster erupted at the end of November, when Yanukovych backed away from plans to ink a pact with the European Union and instead signed a $15 billion financial-aid package with Russia.

Brussels’ offer of closer ties with EU was conditioned on a pledge by Ukraine not to enter into any additional economic accords with Russia, Kiev’s leading trade partner and energy supplier.

Uruguay ( Marijuana to Be Sold for Less Than $1 a Gram in Uruguay )

 
Authorities said the price was deliberately set below what marijuana sells for illegally, and the quality control of the drug available at pharmacies would be “very high”

MONTEVIDEO – Marijuana will be sold at licensed Uruguayan pharmacies at a price of between 20-22 pesos ($0.87-$0.95) per gram, according to newly released regulations fleshing out last year’s law legalizing the cultivation, distribution and marketing of the drug.

The president of the National Drug Board, Diego Canepa, said at a press conference that that price would cover the cost of production and allow growers to make a profit, adding that pharmacies selling the product would not be allowed to undercut one another.

The price was deliberately set below what marijuana sells for illegally, Canepa said, adding that the quality control of the drug available at pharmacies would be “very high.”

Pharmacies must not place the marijuana in public view nor advertise that they are selling it and they must safely store the drug, just as they do with prescription-only medications or other products intended for “controlled use.”

Canepa said pharmacies that want to sell the drug may start doing so in November or December.

The marijuana sold at pharmacies will be supplied by a maximum of six companies that are to be awarded contracts in a competitive bidding process.

Those companies will meet annual domestic demand of 22 tons of marijuana, the Uruguayan government says.

Consumers registered to buy marijuana at pharmacies may buy up to 40 grams of the drug per month.

Besides buying the product at a licensed pharmacy, marijuana consumers will also be able to access pot by growing it themselves or by belonging to 15-to-45-person cannabis clubs, although with an annual production limit of 480 grams for both individual growers and club members.

Last December, Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalize cannabis.