Almost 48,000 Guatemalans Deported from U.S. to Date in 2014

GUATEMALA CITY – The deportation of Guatemalan immigrants from the United States reached a total of 47,805 in the first 11 months of 2014, 3.47 percent more than in the same period last year, officials said on Monday.

According to a report by Guatemala’s DGM migration office, U.S. immigration officials sent back 47,805 undocumented persons to the Central American country between January and November this year, which represents 1,607 people or 3.47 percent more than in the first 11 months of 2013.

In that period last year, 46,198 undocumented persons were repatriated to Guatemala.

Of the total number deported between January and last November, 41,727 were men, 5,896 were women and the rest were minors.

The Guatemalan Foreign Ministry estimates that some 1.8 million people from that country are living in the United States, 60 percent of them “without papers.”

In 2013, U.S. immigration authorities deported a total of 50,221 Guatemalans, compared with 40,647 in 2012.

Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina estimates that some 100,000 citizens of his country could benefit from immigration measures announced recently by his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama.

Argentine Police Break Up Drug Ring " Woman leader "

BUENOS AIRES – Argentine police broke up an international drug trafficking organization, seized 235 kilos of cocaine and arrested 27 people, including the Bolivian woman suspected of being the gang’s leader, officials said Tuesday.

Peruvian, Colombian and Dominican citizens were also arrested in the operation, Security Secretary Sergio Berni told reporters.

The arrests of five Bolivians, including the suspected gang leader, led to “30 searches in different places in the metro area of the federal capital, resulting in the seizure of 235 kilos of cocaine of maximum purity,” Berni said.

Investigators determined that “the Peruvians sold (the cocaine) wholesale, the Colombians sold it abroad and the Dominicans sold it at the retail level in Buenos Aires,” Berni said.

The investigation started following the arrest more than one year ago of a drug courier at Ezeiza airport who was headed to Spain.

The courier was carrying one kilo of cocaine in his body, Berni said.

Iran: Christians arrested for playing religious music

NCRI - Two Christians have been arrested in Iran for playing religious music on a public par, according to reports received from Iran.

Shahram Donia Roui and Mohammad Reza Vahedi were detained by state security forces in Khalij-e Fars park in the city of Fooladshahr in Isfahan province, on November 30.

Donia Roui and MohammadReza Vahedi are both members of a music group.

No information on their fate has been released to their families by the authorities since their arrest.

The fate of fellow Christian church worker Ebrahim Hosseinzadeh, who was arrested by plain-clothes police last week at his home in the city of Shiraz, is also unknown.

The persecution of Christians in Iran in recent weeks is part of wider campaign of repressive measures aimed at preventing any public expression of anger against the regime.

At least 50 prisoners have been executed in Iran in recent weeks, including women and juvenile offenders. Many others have been arrested on charges of 'prevention of vice and protection of virtue'.

Note from " Blogger " on Iran's women

This is disgusting "acid attack's ," see the photo in the below article. The country of Iran is better off banishing these women who refuse to dress the way their leader's want them to.

 I cannot understand why the men would do this to the beautiful women of Iran. I also cannot believe they would stab a woman over the way she dresses?

Blogger    

Iran acid attackers to enforce new law 'promoting virtue'

Iran has brought in a new law on the 'Promotion of virtue and prevention of vice' in the latest repressive measure against women.

The regime's paramilitary Basij forces and Revolutionary Guards will enforce the new rules which include arrest and punishment for women who break Iran's draconian dress code.

A recent spate of human rights abuses, acid attacks and stabbing of women, which met with widespread protests across Iran, have been justified by the regime as 'promoting virtue.

The state-run Fars News Agency said MPs debated details of the new law on December 9 and ratified the remaining articles. 

Nationwide news agencies reported that the members of the headquarters for the 'Promotion of virtue and prevention of vice' are:

1. A Friday prayer mullah of the regime in Tehran
2. Minister of Interior
3. Minister of Intelligence
4. Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance
5. Minister of Education
6. Minister of Science, Research and Technology
7. Minister of Industries and Mines and Business
8. Two members of parliament as picked by Committee on Cultural Affairs as observers
9. The plenipotentiary representative of Head of Judiciary
10. Head of Regime’s television and radio
11. Head of mullah’s Propaganda Organization
12. Commander of security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran
13. Head of the Basij forces
14. Head of the regime’s Friday prayer Imams’ headquarters
15. Two clerics as selected by the mullah’s Supreme Council of Seminary
16. A cleric as selected by the regime’s “Supreme Council of Women Seminary”
17. The Secretary of the headquarters as selected by the head of headquarters

Islamic State Jihadists, Iraqi Policemen Killed in New Clashes

BAGHDAD – At least 23 Islamic State jihadists and seven policemen were killed in attacks and clashes north and west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, security sources told Efe on Monday.

A source in the Security Operations Command for Al Anbar province in western Iraq, said Iraqi troops, backed by local tribes, drove off an attack on the center of Ramadi, where government offices, local council and Security Operations Command headquarters are located.

The attackers advanced from four points using different kinds of weapons, according to the source, who did not say whether there were fatalities in the government ranks apart from 11 policemen who were wounded.

The fierce fighting lasted from Sunday night until Monday morning and resulted in 23 jihadists killed and three captured.

Meanwhile, another security source in the city of Samarra, north of Baghdad, said that seven policemen were killed and eleven others wounded in a large-scale jihadist attack that began on Sunday night.

The offensive began with a suicide bomber detonating a bomb at a security checkpoint before the extremists seized temporary control of the police station and government offices.

Security reinforcements, which had arrived early Monday, backed by military aircraft, managed to regain control over the area and completely expelled the IS jihadists, according to the source.

Parents of Disappeared Students Plan Strong and Decisive Actions in Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Parents of the 43 missing Mexican students have refused to believe that their children were killed and incinerated in a garbage dumpster, vowing to carry out protests demanding they be returned alive.

On Monday, the parents traveled to the home of Ezequiel Mora Chora, the father of Alexander Mora Venancio, one of the missing students whose remains were positively identified by an Austrian laboratory.

Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo confirmed that the DNA taken from one of the 17 charred skeletal remains recovered from the site where the students’ bodies were reportedly burned was that of Alexander.

Murillo said that the positive DNA identification, coupled with other evidence and statements by the accused, could help reinforce a faithful reconstruction of the incident.

According to the attorney general’s office, the 43 students from Ayotzinapa teacher training school were detained by local police on Sept. 26 following a violent altercation.

Police handed the students over to members of the Guerreros Unidos crime who killed them, burned the bodies and disposed of the remains.

But the parents refuse to believe the story and are demanding the return of their children alive.

Parents’ spokesperson Felipe de la Cruz said that Alexander’s remains were planted and the authorities know where they came from.

De la Cruz warned that the parents will take strong and decisive actions, including staging highway blockades if their demands are not met.

The parents will continue pushing their demands because they believe the investigations carried out by the authorities have been insufficient and have inconsistencies, Human Rights Center director Abel Barrera told Efe.

They also want those who were reportedly involved in the incident, such as local security officials, to be tracked down and arrested, and investigations opened into the possible involvement of the former governor of Guerrero state where the deaths occurred.