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Mexico Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora says Government is Winning the Drug War
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El Universal (Mexico) 12/1/2010

Government is Winning the Drug War

(Oaxaca, Oax) Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora said the fight against organized crime and drug trafficking is weakening its structure and will be won by Mexico.

Interviewed on leaving an inauguration here, Blake said this administration will reach higher levels of security. He continued that the fight against organized crime is decisive and defined by the presence of armed forces in the places with the most violence. He stressed that the government must have more interaction with its citizens while strenghthening the basic fundamentals of institutions (infrastructure).



http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/727264.html
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La Hora (Guatemala) 12/1/2010

Worrying about Hatred of Women

(Los Amates, Izabal) Femicide and violence against women has put Guatemala in the eye of the international community, as it has the second highest death rate for women in the world. Even with the laws, 99 per cent of these crimes remain unpunished. The report said the media misreports these deaths as just events without highlighting any motives. As an example, the landmark case of the Suray sisters in May 2009 had significant space devoted to the invetigation and judicial process, but not the sentence. Although one of the children witnessed a robbery in her aunt’s home and was threatened, the media did not condemn that act. In the end, the offenders were each sentenced to 163 years in prison.

http://www.lahora.com.gt/notas.php?key= ... 2010-12-01
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Diario (Mexico) 12/1/2010

Assassin 18 years of age Arrested in State of Mexico

(Tlalnepantla, Estado de Mexico) Two men, 18 and 34 years old, and both from Uruapan, Michoacan, were arrested for 28 homicides. The arrests came after the discovery of two bodies on Nov. 25. One subject said he began killing at 16 years old, participated in at least 23 murders and was involved in 28 more. The second subject took part in six murders. They said they were protected by a municipal policeman, who was paid 10,000 pesos ($808 US dollars) a month to alert them to police operations or surveillance. The state attorney general said there were 806 homicides in the state betweent January and October 2010.

http://www.diario.com.mx/notas.php?f=20 ... aeacd1ba0a
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Milenio (Mexico) 12/1/2010

Latin America on Yellow Alert for Violence

(Mexico City) The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights warned that Mexico and all of Latin America are on yellow alert due to use of the armed forces to combat crime. The report revealed for the first time in decades crime has overcome unemployment as the main concern. According to the report, the Americas have a homicide rate of 25.6 per 100,000 while Europe has 8.9, the western pacific 3.4 and 5.8 in Southeast Asia.

http://www.milenio.com/node/591076
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Domestic News - United States



Illegal immigrant charged in fatal crash-VIRGINIA


Caption-Feliciano Aquas Suarez, 39, (left) was charged with DUI in the wake of a car crash which killed Casey Ryan Bohr, 23.
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2010 ... ar-680166/
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$4 Million In Pot Confiscated From Warehouse, Upper Arlington Home-OHIO



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Deputies Have Busy Days, Nights In Desert-AZ
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Gulf Coast Taskforce seizes sailboat, 4,500 Pounds of Marijuana, arrests 3-LOUISIANA
http://www.bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=78299
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WikiLeaks to target Mexico, narcotics
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_1673 ... ost_viewed
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Despite cartel violence, DHS moves to increase travel between countries
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Port of L.A. heist raises questions about port security-CALIFORNIA
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/por ... t-security
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Federal agents bust Port of Miami workers
-drugs-Latin America to Caribbean to Miami
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/01/1 ... miami.html
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Deming, NM,

2 Deming men among 20 victims found in mass grave
by Maggie Ybarra \ El Paso Times
Posted: 12/02/2010 12:00:00 AM MST


Two Deming men reported missing in October were among the 20 victims unearthed at a grave site on the outskirts of Palomas, Chihuahua.

But the mother of one of the men said her son is not among those killed.

Mexican authorities found the New Mexico driver's license and U.S. passport card of Lorenzo RenterÃ*a, 27, buried in or near one of the 11 4-foot-deep graves. Initially, Mexican authorities reported that they had found a woman's identification, but they later confirmed that it belonged to RenterÃ*a.

The other Deming man, who was reported missing by his family in October, was also found among the dead, said officials with the Luna County Sheriff's Office. He was identified as Camerino F. Corral, 31, officials said.

Family members

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told sheriff's officials that Corral was in Juárez the last time they heard from him, said Capt. Arturo Baeza of the Luna County Sheriff's Office.
RenterÃ*a's mother, Esther RenterÃ*a, said she went to the morgue in Juárez on Wednesday to see whether she could identify her son. She said Mexican authorities have the wrong man.

"I don't think it was my son. First of all, this body they showed me looked very different," she said. "A mother can tell when it is not her son. Only if the DNA tests positive will I accept it. Right now, to me, my son is alive."

Esther RenterÃ*a said she believes it's possible that someone took his New Mexico license and U.S. passport card and buried it with the bodies. She said she would go to the Chihuahua


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state attorney general's office on Friday to seek a DNA test.
The last time Esther RenterÃ*a heard from her son, he was headed to Ascensión, also in Chihuahua, to see his wife.

"I told him call me when you arrive. At 8:32 p.m., he called me from Palomas saying, 'Mom, they have just stopped me. I will call you in a little bit. I love you,' I told him, I love you too," she said. "I thought he would call me later, but he never did. He did not tell me who stopped him."

Lorenzo RenterÃ*a was born in Deming, she said.

The Mexican army discovered the victims' bodies early Sunday.

Officials were performing autopsies at a morgue in Juárez Wednesday afternoon, said Arturo Sandoval, spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general.

Medical examiners have concluded that 17 are men and the others are women, he said. Most of the bodies have not been officially identified, but authorities have determined that they were all buried at the ranch, El Capricho, within the past year, Sandoval said.

Four victims were tied with rope when they were buried, he said. But those bodies are so badly decomposed that it's hard for medical examiners to know how they died or whether they were buried alive, he said.

Mexican authorities have been trying to identify the bodies through DNA tests and by showing the clothes they were buried in to people who have reported their relatives missing within the past year.

Baeza said it is unknown whether the Deming men were taken by the same group of people or whether they were kidnapped for drug-related reasons.

"It's hard to say because of the situation over there in Mexico," he said. "It could be cartel related or it could be those people who do freelance kidnapping."

The Mexican army learned of the mass graves after they arrested five gunmen Saturday in Palomas. Soldiers seized about 350 pounds of marijuana, 227 bullets of various calibers, a silencer, five vehicles and two gun magazines.

Maggie Ybarra may be reached at mybarra@elpasotimes.com; 546-6151.

Adriana Gómez Licón contributed to this story.



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