Link between Al Qaeda and Los Zetas rejected by Mexican Interior Minister
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El Universal (Mexico) 2/10/2011

Blake rejects any link between Al Qaeda and Los Zetas

(Creel, Chihuahua) Mexican interior minister, Francisco Blake Mora, rejects that there is any link between Al-Qaeda and Los Zetas, as claimed by the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. There is no indication that there is such a linkage," said Blake. The minister of the Interior said that by contrast, they are two very different phenomena.

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/744002.html
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Cuarto Poder (Mexico) 2/10/2011

U.S. approves extradition of Ye Gon to Mexico

U.S. District Judge John Facciola yesterday approved the extradition of Ye Gon, a Chinese businessman to Mexico to face criminal charges related to the production of controlled substances. In September 2008, the Attorney General of the Republic of Mexico (PGR) filed an extradition request on charges of importation, manufacture and transportation of psychotropic substances and money laundering and illegal possession of firearms. (Note: an viral email has circulated photos of this man‘s Mexico City home when it was raided in early 2007, with gold firearms and over US $200 million in cash. He fled to his home country of China, but returned and surrendered to US authorities later that year.)

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La Hora (Ecuador) 2/9/2011

Indigenous leaders released

Indigenous leaders were arrested last February and accused of terrorism and sabotage for instigating the protests of September 30, 2009 in which the Shuar teacher, Bosco Wisum, died. Hundreds of Indians from the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), particularly the Shuar, carrying signs alluding to freedom of Pepe Acacha, went down the avenue, 6 December, to the Provincial Court in the northern center of Quito, where some 60 policemen, heavily armed, unsuccessfully attempted to stop the crowd. The Indians tore down the fences and went on their way to the very entrance of the Court. The Provincial Court of Pichincha found procedural flaws in the imprisonment of the accused Pepe Acacha, Pedro Fidel, and Kaniras Mashian and, therefore, granted the petition for habeas corpus and ordered their immediate release. In a brief,
emotional speech, the Shuar leader said, "We've shown we can think and express ourselves freely," while shouting loudly that this is a punishment for the "arrogance of President Correa and meddling in other branches of government, especially justice, where he reached out to pursue and take community leaders prisoner.â€