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*Foreign News Report*

*El Universal *(Mexico City) 4/8/08

(note: the following is El Universal's editorial reaction to the recent
"Absolut" vodka ad flap.)

"Migratory earthquake"
Migrations, dating from Biblical times, infuse hopes in those who do so and
instill tremors in those who live where the migrants are heading. Nowadays,
the mere publication of a Swedish vodka advertisement which shows a bottle
over a map of Mexico of more than 160 years ago, with the legend "In an
absolute world" set off an explosion in the United States, (shown) shrunk in
half in that picture, of a wave of protests which fluctuate between hysteria
and paranoia (on one side) and arrogance and disdain (on the other).
Seen as part of an insidious and absurd campaign so that Mexico may recover
the lost territories, the ad has activated the racist movement with the
"phantom of the secession of the south" of the United States and the
cultural assault of 12 million of undocumented (persons) branded there
incorrectly as illegals, and who will end up dominating the most powerful
nation on the planet, the fruit of previously welcome waves of migrations.
There is much of ignorance and mental dullness in these primitive
expressions but much of the world's barbarities has been caused by the
exploitation of similar sentiments of blind intolerance.
For the time being, the winners are the creators of the ad, who saw its
effect grow exponentially. On this side of the border, the situation is not
too different.
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*El Universal* published photographs Saturday of a savage
beating by National Immigration Institute and Mexican Navy of defenseless
and young Central American workers who were fleeing atop a freight train
from the hunger in their countries.
At the Migrant's House of La Palma, Niltepec, Oaxaca, there were invasions
and violations, still unpunished.
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*Entorno a Tamaulipas* (Matamoros, Tamaulipas) 4/8/08 (full transl. of
article follows)

Rio Bravo. - The special inspection operations which have been implemented
and sustained by the Federal Preventive Police since last January 7 will
continue permanently in the entire country including the state of
Tamaulipas because they have produced excellent results.
Edgar Millan Gomez, General Commander of the Federal Police of the whole
country so advised different journalistic media during an inspection trip to
the different strategic points which the "PFP" (Federal Preventive Police)
has installed on the highways.
It was at the PFP checkpoint found on the highway Rio Bravo-Matamoros at the
junction with route 124 to Villa Nuevo Progreso where the head of the PFP
asserted that the special inspection operations placed at strategic points
will remain for an indefinite period of time. He emphasized that the
operations have yielded excellent results in the fight against crime because
they have allowed the seizure of drugs, firearms and stolen vehicles as well
as the detention of an unspecified number of persons involved in these
cases.
Among other things, he emphasized that a frontal battle against crime goes
on day to day and that the primordial objective is to win the war so that
this may result in better security for all the families of the country.
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*a.m.* (Leon, Guanajuato), *Cambio de Michoacan* (Morelia, Michoacan)
4/8/08

In Morelia, Michoacan, federal police arrested seven thugs in a house which
also had weed, cocaine, meth and heroin plus also twelve shoulder weapons
(submachine guns, assault rifles, shotguns), round shaped clips, seven other
clips, more than one thousand rounds of ammo, four grenades and eight
radios. (note: thought the report even furnishes the VIN of a vehicle also
seized, it fails to give a date to the event.)
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*El Diario* (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 4/8/08

The mayor of Juarez said he expects the army to be in Juarez six months.
Yesterday evening in the Melchor Ocampo section of Juarez killers in a
passing car riddled two other men in a parked vehicle with machine gun fire.
There were children still playing out in the street at the time of the
event.
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*El Imparcial* (Hermosillo, Sonora) 4/8/08

(Yesterday this paper reported that 226 kgs. of marihuana in the Santa Cruz,
Sonora, area)
Another 3.9 tons of marihuana along with 27 shoulder weapons and two grenade
launchers were found in six water tanks buried alongside a local road by the
"El Bajio" ranch of the Santa Cruz area. One man was arrested.
And in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, two more city police officers flunked a
personal drug use test, bringing to eight that city's total during the
current city administration.
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*El Manana* (Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas) 4/8/08

A couple from Laredo, Texas, was assaulted in Nuevo Laredo by a man who
attempted to kidnap the woman. Failing to do so, he took off running with
her purse and cell phone. Police happened to be nearby and arrested him.
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*El Universal* (Mexico City) 4/8/08

1. Three shot and "semi-buried" bodies of men were found: one, in Lerdo,
Durango (shot eight times and the area's 21st execution of the year) and the
other two in Acapulco, Guerrero. In Livianos, state of Mexico, another man's
body was found; it had ten bullet impacts. And two thugs managed to escape
after hurling grenades at the police during a vehicular chase in the area of
Leon, Guanajuato.

2. The state congress of Zacatecas intends to exhort Mexico's "Federal
Executive Power" to use all its judicial and legal resources to demand that
the United States follow the "mandate" of the International Court of Justice
in The Hague in relation to the Mexicans sentenced to the death penalty in
that country (read: the U.S.).
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*La Prensa Grafica* (San Salvador, El Salvador)

El Salvador's National Police currently seizes an average of fifteen
firearms daily. The number for the first three months of 2008 is 1,399, a
25% drop from the same period in 2007, when they reached 1,865.
300 of this year's seizures are AK47 & M16 rifles, used in crime. The San
Salvador metro area has accounted for 500 of the firearms seized.
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