Over 10% of Mexico's Population Lost Through Emigration
Over Ten Percent of Mexico's Population Lost Through Emigration
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Foreign News Report
La Jornada (Mexico City) 1/24/08
A report by the World Bank placed Mexico at the top of the world in the number of emigrants and at third in the amount of individual monetary remittances from abroad. Titled "Migration and Remittances FactBook", the report says 11.5 million Mexicans - 10.7 % of its population - have left for "other countries". There has also been a growth in the number of professionals emigrating, mainly physicians.
Remittances have reached 25 billion dollars annually. The report also called the U.S./ Mexico border the world's largest migratory corridor.
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a.b.c. (Mexico City) 1/24/08
507 Nuevo Laredo police officers were tested for drugs; military forces are patrolling the city and setting up urban traffic checkpoints in a continuing search for weapons.
(note: a quite similar event report by El Diario of Ciudad Juarez yesterday fell through the cracks and was not reported; they are using vehicles with roof mounted machine guns. Our apologies for the omission.)
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Diario de Yucatan (Merida, Yuc.) 1/24/08
1. The Chief of Police of Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas and twelve of his subordinates were arrested by Mex. army personnel when it was found that their radios were connected to frequencies used by the Gulf Cartel. El Porvenir (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) added that there were also four police from Nuevo Laredo who are now under arrest.
2. X-Ray inspection of packages at the postal facility of the Mexico City Airport detected 85 packages originating from various U.S. cities and addressed to different Mexican cities. The contents: nine hand guns, an AK-47, and 1,738 rounds of ammunition of different calibers, plus five shotguns. Federal agents seized the packages.
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El Bravo (Matamoros, Tamaulipas) 1/24/08
Now that the Mex. army has disarmed the local police, area businesses are closing up at nightfall for fear of being assaulted and robbed.
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El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 1/24/08
Mex. navy personnel in Sinaloa located 3 marihuana fields covering an area of 13,150 sq. meters in the vicinity of Guasave and Sinaloa de Leyva. And in La Mojonera, Sinaloa, federal forces located a 13,00 sq. meter field of marihuana and one of poppy covering 1,000 sq. meters. ( 1 sq. meter= 1.195 sq. yds.)
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El Financiero (Mexico City) 1/24/08
(note: our report does not normally carry items originating within the U.S.. This is an exemption)
Leaders of the Mexican community on Chicago said they will ask President Calderon for his support of the various activities they plan to undertake to demonstrate their important social and political presence in the United States.
Pres. Calderon plans to visit Chicago on Fe. 14 and will also stop at Los Angeles, New York and Boston.
Fabian Morales, councilor of the Institute of Mexicans Abroad, said "…for example, this is an election year, where we must get people out to vote, that is going to strengthen us and show that our presence is not temporary…because the enemy is not at home, but outside, it has white skin, they think differently than we do, it's the Minuteman, and those are the ones we are going to attack."
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El Porvenir (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) 1/24/08
update: the murderer of Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar is arrested in Pueblo Yaqui, Sonora, and was taken to Mexicali, Baja Calif.; he is said to have a prior record as a smuggler.
Previously, the search for him has now been revealed to have been at Manzanillo Ave. # 102, Colonia Santa Clara, Mexicali; there, "false visas" and all necessary equipment to make false documents was found: there were 28 U.S. rubber stamps, 311 permit formats, 31 border crossing cards, 47 "temporary permits to stay" in that country, software programs and 73 ammo. rounds of different calibers.
The 80 motorcycles & ATV's, plus one boat and 1 kg. of marihuana were at Tepic # 46, Colonia Santa Clara, Mexicali.
Both those properties belong to Gerardo & Federico Miramontes Zavala.
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Milenio (Mexico City) 1/24/08
130 "undocumented", mostly Guatemalans, were detained as they traveled northbound in two buses on the Mexico City - Veracruz highway.
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