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Foreign News Report

El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 2/28/08

German Espinal, Director General of Immigration of Honduras, said that 523 persons leave Honduras every day in search of a better future, principally to the United States.
"The problem is that, according to official future projections, the tendency of Hondurans who travel abroad will remain the same, unchanged, and this worries us."
Mexico and Guatemala have deported seven thousand Hondurans so far this year.
Some 600,000 Hondurans are in the U.S. illegally, according to that government agency.
In 2007, individual monetary remittances into Honduras reached 10 billion dollars; a 3% projected increase this year will bring that amount to 10 billion 526 million dollars. These remittances represent 25.4% of the GNP of Honduras.
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La Jornada (Mexico City) 2/28/08

"At least 15 percent of the almost 600 Matamoros city police officers do not know how to read and write, and for this reason the Tamaulipas Adult Services Institute is offering classes to those in uniform who did not complete their basic education."
Forty police officers are currently being assisted and the hope is that another forty who are ashamed to take classes will do so in the future. (note: Matamoros is across the mouth of the Rio Grande from Brownsville, TX)
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Excelsior (Mexico City) 2/28/08

There was a shootout between hired killers and "around 200" local, federal and military forces who had surrounded a house in San Nicolas, (a suburb of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) but the thugs managed to escape.
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Milenio (Mexico City) 2/28/08

1. A search of a house at the corner of Espana & Irapuato Sts., (no number given) in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, yielded 15,000 rounds of ammunition including 6,500 rounds used for AK47 rifles and 3,400 rounds used for AR15 rifles, plus various other calibers. There were also seven firearms and seven vehicles, some of them armored, plus 28 clips for AK47 and 35 clips for other firearms and some communications equipment and firearm accessories. No arrests were mentioned.

2. There was a shootout yesterday at mid-day in a parking area in downtown Durango, Durango, between groups believed to be drug rivals. The result has been five dead.
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Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 2/28/08

1. Early yesterday afternoon two men were filling their vehicle with gasoline at a station in Palomas, Chihuahua, just steps away from the international border crossing to Columbus, New Mexico. Two killers wearing ski masks pulled up in two vehicle and opened fire on them with assault rifles, killed them and escaped. The border crossing had to be shut down temporarily.
(note: some other papers said three men had been killed. This is the same town from where Pancho Villa
invaded the U.S.)

2. Sergeant Jose Cruz of the Mounted Police finished his work shift in Juarez at 7 p.m. yesterday and headed for home. He, too, was executed in another car-to-car gunfire assault just blocks away. The killers disappeared.
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(note: the attachment to this report is a photo (from El Porvenir, Monterrey) of the man who arrived at the airport in that city, presented a false Polish passport and said his name was "Marek Madej" and later said he was an Iraqi and that his name was "Revon Salim Jopraeel". Our report of 2/27/08 relates)
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