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Mexican guerrilla leader to march from US Embassy
Reuters
Saturday, April 29, 2006; 6:49 PM

As soon as this immigration thing goes through, watch how fast they will form unions......then we will be really screwed

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A coalition of unions and anti-capitalist groups, including Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos, will march in Mexico on Monday to mark international labor day and to support a U.S. immigrant boycott.

Marcos, a pipe-smoking icon of the left who led a short but bloody uprising in southern Mexico in 1994, will head an anti-capitalist march from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.

"We will create a clearly anti-capitalist May Day and we ... are going to take the property from the (owners of) the means of production," he told union activists on Saturday.

In other marches, an array of Mexican unions will walk through the streets of the capital protesting what they call government meddling in union business and in support of Hispanics in the United States, who are expected to flood America's streets on Monday demanding amnesty for illegal immigrants.

In Mexico, immigrants' rights groups have called for a national daylong boycott of U.S. products and businesses. The planned boycott has been criticized by U.S. business groups in Mexico.

On Friday, thousands of Mexican workers stopped work for several hours and blocked traffic in Mexico City in support of miners striking to protest perceived government involvement in the ousting of union leader Napoleon Gomez in February.

In recent weeks, miners and metal workers have joined stoppages, including a monthlong strike at La Caridad, the huge copper mine owned by Grupo Mexico.

Anger peaked after two workers were shot to death in clashes last week during a police operation to break a strike at major steel plant Sicartsa.
(this will happen here)
Marcos has been on a national tour since January to try to drum up support for a left-wing coalition opposed to Mexico's mainstream politicians.

The Zapatistas burst from the jungle on New Year's Day in 1994, taking over towns and attacking police and army positions in Mexico's poorest state. The clashes claimed about 150 lives.

Man gets two life terms in slayings
16-year-old boy one of two killed at Henrico apartment, which served as a brothel

Antonio Marco Herrera showed no reaction when he heard, through a Spanish interpreter, Henrico County Circuit Judge L.A. Harris Jr. order him to prison for two life terms.

The 21-year-old native of El Salvador pleaded guilty in March to two murders on May 23, 2003 -- those of Hector Peres, 16, and Jose Eduardo Trinidad Ortiz, 34, in a London Towne apartment that was being operated as a brothel.

He also faces sentencing May 22 in Richmond Circuit Court for two connected murders.

According to prosecutors, Herrera went to the apartment that night with three other men. One was Luis "El Morro" Morales, a South Richmond pimp who was in a business dispute with a competitor who operated the apartment-brothel. Morales offered Herrera $2,000 to kill the rival pimp.

The other two men who took part in the killings were Roberto del Cid and Alfredo Lemus. Two more men, Mynor Catalan and Mario Gonzalez, both 20, came along in a second car but did not go into the apartment.

After his arrest, Del Cid gave police details of what happened that night and identified Herrera as the shooter, which Herrera has denied.

Del Cid said Herrera killed the two men in the apartment and later that night killed Catalan and Gonzalez after the murder group decided they could be dangerous witnesses. Their bodies were found by a fisherman at about daylight at Ancarrow's Landing in South Richmond.

Del Cid and Herrera pleaded guilty to two counts of murder in Henrico and two counts in Richmond. Del Cid's sentencings are set for May 9 and 10.

All four who took part in the killings left Richmond soon after. Herrera and Del Cid went to Wilson, N.C. Morales and Lemus disappeared, but police believe they drove to Mexico, where Morales has family.

Herrera's lawyer, Theodore Bruns, argued yesterday that the bulk of the prosecu- tion case came from Del Cid, who had motive to identify Herrera as the shooter to make his potential testimony more valuable.

Bruns said Herrera left El Salvador at 13 to escape poverty after his older brother, who had fought in the civil war in that country, returned home and abused Herrera and others in the family. Bruns said Herrera has minimal education and a childlike outlook on the world.

"I don't ask you to take pity on him," Bruns told the judge. Regardless of Herrera's role in the killings, what happened was too serious for that. "We ask only that you give him a sentence he can see the end of so he can pursue whatever he can to better himself."

Commonwealth's Attorney Wade Kizer argued for the two life sentences by reminding the judge that Herrera executed four people in one night, and one of them was a 16-year-old boy. He said Herrera had only recently been released from jail, after a conviction for shooting into an occupied car in New Kent County. After fleeing Henrico, he was arrested in North Carolina, and subsequently convicted there, for raping a child.

However tough one's life has been, Kizer said, "You don't put a gun to the back of someone else's head and pull the trigger, which he did four times."

Harris agreed. At the close of arguments he imposed sentence and recessed court.

"These were just absolutely senseless executions for no reason at all," Harris said.