$100,000 in Cash Found Left Behind at Burger King Restaurant

SAN FRANCISCO – An employee of a Burger King restaurant in San Jose, California, in the southwestern U.S., found a backpack stuffed with $100,000 that had been left behind on one of the seats of the fast-food establishment, a discovery that was reported to police and is now under investigation.

The employee was cleaning tables when she came upon an abandoned backpack, which she reported to the manager who proceeded to open it.

“I opened the pack hoping to find documentation that would allow me to get in touch with the owner, but instead of that I found a ton of money in bills of up to $100,” the proprietor and manager Altaf Chaus said Friday on local TV channel KGO.

Chaus notified the police, who went to the restaurant and saw that the backpack contained $100,000 in cash, along with some caramels and marijuana, for which reason an investigation was opened to determine where the money came from.

Mexico Judge Orders Release of 11 Arrested over Violent Protests

VERACRUZ, Mexico – A Mexican judge on Saturday ordered the release of 11 people arrested over violent protests in support of 43 missing teacher trainees.

The judge in Xalapa, capital of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, found insufficient evidence to prosecute the suspects – eight men and three women – for the crimes of criminal association, mutiny and causing bodily harm.

The suspects had been held in two maximum-security prisons in the states of Veracruz and Nayarit after their arrest on Nov. 20 in Mexico City’s main square.

Saturday was the deadline for the judge to rule on whether to hold the 11 suspects over for trial.

Two isolated violent incidents occurred during the Nov. 20 protests in Mexico City involving attacks on security forces with Molotov cocktails, rocks and firecrackers.

Tens of thousands of people gathered that day in the massive Zocalo square to demand the safe return of the 43 students who went missing on the night of Sept. 26 in the southern town of Iguala, Guerrero state.

Police officers from Iguala and the neighboring town of Cocula detained those 43 students that night at the orders of Iguala’s mayor and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos gang, which killed them and burned the bodies to eliminate all traces of the victims, Mexican authorities say, citing statements by suspects in the case.

Corrupt municipal police targeted the students from a nearby teacher-training facility, according to some media accounts, after they had seized several buses for use in protests against education reform.

Earlier this week, London-based human rights group Amnesty International said the 11 suspects were being “unfairly held” and should be released immediately unless further evidence was presented.

“The evidence against the 11 protesters is so thin that it is incredibly hard to understand why they are still in detention, let alone in high-security facilities and treated as ‘high value criminals,’” Erika Guevara Rosas, AI’s Americas director, was quoted as saying.

“Such acts raise the question of whether there is a deliberate attempt to discourage legitimate protests,” she added.

In its statement on Thursday, AI also blamed the situation in Iguala on officials at the highest levels of government.

“Serious allegations of human rights violations and collusion between local authorities and criminals had been made before but federal and state authorities decided to take no action,” AI sa

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The Bodies of 11 Youths Found Abandoned In Guerrero

Translated by Valor for Borderlandbeat

By: Rogelio Agustín/ Víctor Hugo Michel/Ezequiel Flores Contreras

Ministerial Police found the bodies of 11 youths on a dirt road that connects the county seat of Chilapa with the population of Ayahualulco, very close to a security guardhouse belonging to the preventive police.

The discovery was reported this morning (November 27), even though there were reports of at least two different confrontations in the neighborhood of La Villa, near the preparatory school #26.  The criminal groups reported to be involved in the clashes are “Los Rojos” and “Los Ardillos”.  “Los Ardillos” are reported to be directing the brothers of the president of the local Congress, and the local PRD congressman Bernardo Ortega Jiménez.

The bodies belonged to men between the ages of 20 and 25, all of them receiving R-15 and AK-47 shots.  According to official reports, the victims were lying on the shoulder of the road, decapitated, dismembered, and burned.  Other reports say that some were doused in fuel but were unsuccessfully incinerated.

Even though the clashes were reported to be on the evening of the 26^th, the bodies didn’t appear until dawn and had a message from one of the organized crime groups operating in the area.

The message read: “There goes your trash ha ha ha…Fucking Ardillos shitty turncoats.  Atte. The big shot.”

Heading towards Santa Catarina, a military patrol arrested a civilian who was carrying firearms and grenades.

Flesh-eating maggot disease surfaces in Syria

Saturday, 29 November 2014

U.N. health experts have noted three cases of myiasis near Damascus, marking the first appearance of the flesh-eating maggot disease in Syria, AFP reported.

Myiasis, an affliction caused when flies lay their eggs in wounds, is not lethal for humans, but its appearance says a lot about worsening living conditions in war-ravaged Syria, the World Health Organization said.

It has already issued an alert about the reappearance of polio in the north of the country, where tuberculosis, typhoid and scabies have again become endemic.

"Three cases of myiasis, otherwise called screw flies, were reported on Nov. 19 in Syria," WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told AFP on Friday.

The cases were spotted in Douma, a rebel bastion northeast of the capital held by a Salafist group, which has been under government siege for more than a year, with residents facing dwindling food and medical supplies.

"This disease is not so much a danger in itself, but should rather be seen as an indicator for very bad water supply, sanitary and hygienic, as well as socioeconomic circumstances in besieged and hard-to-reach areas," Lindmeier said.

He pointed out that neighboring Damascus, which usually has a daily supply of around 350,000 cubic meters of water, "has lost two thirds of its drinking water supply.”

The U.N. health body said it was launching a hygiene promotion and water rationalization campaign in Syria in a bid to help people avoid behaviors that can lead to myiasis and other water and hygiene-related diseases.

The multi-sided Syrian conflict has killed more than 195,000 people since it began three and a half years ago as an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

11 Headless Bodies Found in Southern Mexico

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico – Police found the headless bodies of 11 young men Thursday on the road between Chilapa de Alvarez and Ayahualulco, two towns in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, prosecutors said.

The bodies, which appear to have been burned, were dumped in the road after a shootout Wednesday night between rival gangs, Guerrero Attorney General’s Office spokesmen told Efe.

The Los Rojos and Los Ardillos gangs have been fighting for control of the illegal drug trade and other criminal activities in a section of Guerrero.

Two clandestine graves containing 13 bodies were found nearly a month ago in Chilapa de Alvarez.

On Sept. 26, 43 students were detained by police in Iguala, a city in Guerrero, and handed over to the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel, which allegedly killed and burned them to cover their tracks.

Former Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca Velazquez has been linked to the disappearance of the 43 education students.

Abarca was arrested on organized crime, kidnapping and murder charges.

The politician and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, were arrested by the Federal Police on Nov. 4 in Mexico City.

Pineda is being held in preventive detention so prosecutors can gather more evidence in the case.

The couple fled from their house on Sept. 30, four days after Iguala municipal police officers opened fire on students from a rural teachers college.

Six people died, 25 were wounded and 43 students disappeared in the incident.

The search for the missing students has turned up numerous clandestine graves in the state.

President Enrique Peña Nieto plans to plans to deliver an address to the nation on Thursday to announce new security and judicial measures to end the wave of protests over the disappearance of the 43 education students.

The students’ disappearance has sparked protests across Mexico.