Mexico makes 'key' arrests in drug kingpin's escape

Mexico makes 'key' arrests in drug kingpin's escape
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/10/22/434459/Mexico-arrests-Guzmans-pilot--brotherinlaw
Thu Oct 22, 2015 5:49AM

Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman Loera, aka "el Chapo Guzman", is escorted by marines as he is presented to the press on February 22, 2014 in Mexico City. (AFP photo)

Authorities in Mexico have arrested the pilot and brother-in-law of fugitive drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Prosecutors in Mexico City announced on Wednesday that Guzman's brother-in-law had helped him in his July jailbreak, also accusing the pilot of flying Guzman out of town.

Attorney General Arely Gomez told reporters, "We can say that the group responsible for planning, organizing and carrying out the escape from the outside has been broken up."

Gomez also said the brother-in-law supervised and organized the construction of a 1.5-kilometer tunnel leading to a hole in Guzman's cell shower in central Mexico State as well as other parts of the escape.

According to Gomez, the brother-in-law had repeatedly entered the Altiplano Prison to visit Guzman and update him on the operation of his escape’s progress.

The pilot had also flown narcotics for the kingpin's Sinaloa drug cartel, Gomez said.

The official, however, refused to reveal the names of those captured.

Guzman traveled by land to the city of Queretaro, according to Gomez, from where he caught a small plane to his home state of Sinaloa and Durango.

One of the planes, explained Gomez, took Guzman to the area "where he has taken refuge,” while not specifying where Guzman was exactly flown to.

The latest development in the search for Guzman comes days after Mexico's special marine forces came close to catching the 58-year-old fugitive during raids in the northwest of the country earlier this month.

A member of the Mexican Navy stands guard in a street of Culiacan, Sinaloa State, Mexico during a security operation on October 20, 2015. (AFP photo)

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is the head of the notorious Sinaloa cartel. He escaped from a high-security prison through a specially dug tunnel. He is still on the run and Mexican officials have been looking for him since July 11.

Last month, several jail authorities were arrested for giving inside help to Guzman on how to flee.

This is not the first time Guzman was arrested. The drug cartel leader was first arrested in Guatemala in 1993 and spent nearly a decade in another maximum-security Mexican jail before escaping allegedly in a laundry basket.

Before his second arrest in 2014, Guzman was on the run for 13 years after a series of high-profile arrests of associates and covert surveillance by Mexican and US authorities.

Mexico agrees to re-launch investigation into students’ disappearance

Mexico agrees to re-launch investigation into students’ disappearance
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/10/21/434331/Mexico-missing-students-Guerrero-Iguala-Eber-Betanzos
Wed Oct 21, 2015 9:13AM

The parents of 43 Mexican students allegedly massacred by drug traffickers last year hold their portraits during a rally in the capital, Mexico City, August 26, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

Mexican authorities have agreed to reopen an investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in the state of Guerrero last year.

Eber Betanzos, the deputy attorney general of Mexico, said on Tuesday that Mexico City would carry out the probe in cooperation with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

Betanzos said that Mexican official would “completely” accept the recommendations by IACHR experts, adding, however, that the body would not be allowed to directly question witnesses.

The students went missing in the town of Iguala in September 2014, when gang-linked local police reportedly attacked their buses and handed them over to members of the Guerreros Unidos drug gang.

They are believed to have been slaughtered and burnt at a trash dump by the gang members, according to the government, whose account of the incident has been rejected as sloppy by the victims’ relatives and independent observers.

Mexican people take part in a march to demand answers regarding the disappearance of 43 students last year, in the capital, Mexico City, September 27, 2015. (Photo by Reuters)

Referring to the planned new investigation, IACHR expert Angela Buitrago said it would be carried out “with a strategy based on lines laid out by the group, including the use of technology... and establishing a path of action agreed upon by the families.”

Despite Betanzos’ statement that the IACHR will not be permitted to question witnesses directly, Buitrago expressed hope that her group would be given permission to question the military forces who were in the area when the disappearances took place, because such interviews will be crucial to the investigation.

Mexican Defense Minister General Salvador Cienfuegos has so far refused to grant access to the troops to anyone except government prosecutors.

Mexico says drug lord Guzman avoids capture, hurts self

Mexico says drug lord Guzman avoids capture, hurts self
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/10/17/433763/Mexico-drug-kingpin-Joaquin-Guzman-jailbreak-failed-Durango
Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:3AM

Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman being escorted by marines as he is presented to the press in Mexico City, February 22, 2014. (Photo by AFP)

Authorities in Mexico say fugitive drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman escaped a recent operation to recapture him in northwest of the country, injuring himself in the rush.

“Due to these actions and to avoid his arrest, the fugitive escaped in a hurry, which according to the information that was collected, caused him injuries to his leg and face,” said an official government statement issued on Friday.

The statement further said, “It is important to specify that these injuries were not the product of a direct clash.”

The statement, however, did not elaborate on the extent of his injuries.

Guzman made a prison escape on July 11, when he crawled through a hole leading to a huge tunnel under his cell shower.

A view of the shower in the prison where Joaquin Guzman Loera “El Chapo” Guzman was and from which he escaped through a tunnel, in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico, July 15, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

According to Mexican officials, the efforts to recapture Guzman were concentrated in the country’s northwest region in the past weeks based on intelligence shared with Mexico by unspecified foreign governments.

A newly-leaked video of his escape was broadcast by the local Televisa channel this week, showing that loud hammering could be heard in Guzman’s cell just moments before he slipped down the hole.

It then took prison guards about 40 minutes to get inside his cell following his escape.

Over a dozen prison authorities have been arrested over allegations that they had assisted in his jailbreak.

The government statement issued on Friday after the failed attempt to re-arrest Guzman said, “The security cabinet continues to conduct all actions that will allow the recapture of this criminal.”

Meanwhile, US authorities have been cited in press reports as saying that the 58-year-old drug lord likely fled to the rugged mountainous region of his home state of Sinaloa, where he reportedly enjoys the support of the local population.

UN urges Mexico must withdraw army forces doing police job

UN urges Mexico must withdraw army forces doing police job
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/10/08/432473/UN-Mexico-Zeid-Raad-alHussein-Guerro-Missing-Students-Enrique-Pena-Nieto
Thu Oct 8, 2015 8:31AM

Federal police officers and soldiers are seen at a checkpoint in Mexico City on July 13, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

The United Nations has called on Mexico to end its controversial program, under which army personnel have undertaken the duties of police and law enforcement forces on the streets.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein on Wednesday called on Mexico to set a timetable to meet the world body’s demand and replace the military forces with police.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s government must “adopt a time frame for the withdrawal of the military from public security functions,” as army forces have not been trained to do police tasks, the UN official says.

In late 2006, former president, Felipe Calderon, deployed troops on the streets to crack down on organized crime as part of a wider and ongoing war on drugs.

However, human rights organizations have recently said soldiers deployed to streets of Mexico were committing crimes and other abuses.

Hussein criticized Mexico’s police, judicial and investigative system for failing the nation, saying its poor performance has led to 26,000 disappearances and thousands of killings.

“No one in Mexico can feel safe,” said the UN official, adding, “They’re not enjoying the protection of the law.”

Fate of missing students

Elsewhere in his comments, Hussein urged the Mexican government to follow the recommendations of independent experts from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and start a new investigation into the high-profile case of 43 students that went missing last year.

A student walks past portraits of some of the 43 missing students of the rural teacher college of Ayotzinapa placed by fellow students in front of the Congress of the state of Guerrero in Chilpancingo, Mexico, on September 24, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

On September 26, 2014, the 43 students, all trainee teachers, disappeared in the city of Iguala in the southern state of Guerrero following an attack by police forces suspected of having links to drug gangs. The incident took place during a protest rally over teachers’ rights.

The parents of the students say corrupt local police abducted the missing students and handed them over to a drug gang, which purportedly killed them.

Earlier this year, a statement by the Mexican attorney general said that investigators were certain that the 43 college students missing were killed and incinerated.

The parents of the students say corrupt local police abducted the missing students and handed them over to a drug gang, which purportedly killed them.

Earlier this year, a statement by the Mexican attorney general said that investigators were certain that the 43 college students missing were killed and incinerated.

Reacting to Hussein’s comments, the Mexican Foreign Relations Department said the “government agrees with the high commissioner that all of us authorities on the state, federal and local levels should improve our efforts to protect human rights.”

Student massacre demonstration turns violent in Mexico

Student massacre demonstration turns violent in Mexico
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/10/03/431758/Mexico-Protest-Mexico-City-Oaxaca-Police-
Sat Oct 3, 2015 8:58AM

A group of masked protesters clash with the federal police in Mexico City on 2 October, 2015 after a demonstration to commemorate the 47th anniversary of a 1968 massacre of students by the army. (© AFP)

Clashes have erupted between protesters and police in Mexico after thousands of people took to the streets of the capital to commemorate the 47th anniversary of a student massacre in the South American country.

According to Mexican officials, the Friday demonstration in the capital Mexico City turned violent when about 300 “anarchists” lobbed stones and firebombs at the police guarding the National Palace, which is home to the country’s President Enrique Pena Nieto.

Officials said police responded by firing tear gas, and that the violence lasted for around one hour.

The organizers of the rallies called for restraint from both sides.

Federal police officers clash with a group of masked protesters in Mexico City on 2 October, 2015 after a demonstration to commemorate the 47th anniversary of a 1968 massacre of students by the army. (© AFP)

In a similar protest in the southern city of Oaxaca, 52 masked youths were arrested for offenses, including vandalizing shops and banks, according to local authorities.

Both incidents of violence come after large national marches were held to mark the anniversary of a 1968 massacre of students by the army in a Mexico City neighborhood.

The students had been demanding an end to what they called repression by their government. Civil society groups say the real number of those killed by police at the time was in fact much higher than the official death toll of 40.

This year’s rallies drew more than 15,000 people in the capital alone.

Mexico extradites 13 drug traffickers to US

Mexico extradites 13 drug traffickers to US
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/10/01/431488/Mexico-extradition-thirteen-drug-trafickers-US
Thu Oct 1, 2015 9:3AM

Edgar Valdez Villareal, aka “La Barbie,” of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel, is presented to the press at the Federal Police headquarters in Mexico City, August 31, 2010. (Photo by AFP)

Mexico has extradited 13 drug traffickers, including high-profile suspects to the United States, authorities have confirmed.

“We have carried out the extraditions of 13 individuals... on court extradition requests from several jurisdictions in the United States,” Tomas Zeron, an official from Mexico’s Justice Ministry told AFP on Thursday.

A Mexican-American citizen, Edgar Valdez Villarreal, with the alias “La Barbie,” who is a top member of the notorious Leyva drug cartel, was among those sent to the US for trial, Zeron added.

Jorge Costilla, with the alias “El Coss,” was another high-profile drug trafficker extradited to the US, according to Zeron.

Two Mexican police officers stand next to a patrol car with a picture of fugitive drug lord Joaquin, July 28, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

The thirteen were long sought by the US. According to authorities, Washington in return plans to hand over some suspects in US jails who are sought by the Mexican government.

Mexico had in recent years balked at requests from the US for the extradition of drug cartel kingpins, including Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the notorious drug lord who managed to escape a top federal prison in Mexico earlier this year.

Washington wanted the Mexican government to extradite him after his arrest in February 2014, but Mexico refused, in a bid to try him at home.

Just two weeks prior to his escape in July, the US filed an extradition request for Guzman.

13 Mexican officials held for trial over El Chapo's prison break

13 Mexican officials held for trial over El Chapo's prison break
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/09/25/430645/Mexico-El-Chapo-Altiplano-prison-break-drug-cartel-
Fri Sep 25, 2015 8:10AM

Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman

Mexico is set to try 13 public officials in connection with the escape from prison of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Mexican judicial authorities say.

In a statement issued on Thursday, Mexican court officials said that among those held for trial are the former coordinator general of the country’s federal prisons, as well as the former director general, the commander and several control room monitors of the Altiplano prison, where Guzman broke out from in July.

Eleven individuals are reported to be held at the same maximum-security prison as the drug kingpin was held. Two others, reportedly women, are being held at a prison in the Pacific state of Nayarit.

Two Mexican police officers stand next to a patrol car with a picture of fugitive drug lord Joaquin, July 28, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

Guzman escaped the prison on July 11, using a 1.5 kilometer-long tunnel dug into his cell.

Footage from the security cameras inside his cell showed the Sinaloa Cartel kingpin walking in the tunnel in his shower area before disappearing.

This was El Chapo’s second successful prison break. He escaped from another maximum-security facility in 2001, while hiding in a laundry basket after bribing officials.

Million-dollar bounty

The Mexican government has announced a reward of up to 60 million pesos (USD 3.8 million) in reward for information that could lead to the kingpin’s whereabouts.

The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is also offering a USD five-million bounty for details leading to the capture of the cartel leader.

Founded in 1980s, the Sinaloa Cartel is an international criminal organization based in Mexico, which is a major smuggler of illegal drugs into the US.

The group, also known as the Blood Alliance, is often referred to as the most powerful cartel in the Western hemisphere. The cartel is said to control much of the flow of cocaine and marijuana to the US.

Parents of Mexico’s 43 missing students stage hunger strike

Parents of Mexico’s 43 missing students stage hunger strike
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/09/24/430483/Mexico-missing-students-Pena-Nieto-Iguala
Thu Sep 24, 2015 6:1AM

Some of the parents and supporters of 43 missing students are seen in Zocalo, Mexico City’s main square, Wednesday, September 23, 2015. (Photo by AP)

The parents of the 43 Mexican students who went missing last year have staged a hunger strike ahead of a meeting with President Enrique Pena Nieto to follow up on the case of their children.

They announced the start of their 43-hour hunger strike at 7:00 p.m. (0000 GMT) on Wednesday after assembling in Mexico City’s historic Zocalo Square.

“For 43 hours, we will only drink water and we’ll be fasting when we meet with the president,” said Nardo Flores, whose son Bernardo is among the missing.

“I don’t know if I can handle the fasting. I’m diabetic. I’ll do all I can,” said Genovena Sanchez, whose son has also disappeared, adding, “I’m doing this to get my son back.”

The students’ families and Pena Nieto are due to meet on Thursday night in a museum at the city’s Chapultepec Park.

According to Vidulfo Rosales, a lawyer for the parents, they are planning to ask the Mexican president to order a new investigation into the case in the hope of finding their children alive.

The Thursday meeting would be Pena Nieto’s second meeting with the missing students’ parents since the 2014 tragedy, which has had a negative effect on the Mexican leader’s popularity.

The relatives and friends of the 43 missing students attend a press conference by the experts of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in Mexico City, September 6, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

“I’m confident that we will have a productive meeting, which will produce agreements to obtain the two main objectives, which are getting to the truth and getting justice,” Roberto Campa, a deputy interior minister said.

Various accounts

The 43 students went missing last September in the city of Iguala in the southern state of Guerrero after being reportedly detained by corrupt police officials.

Prosecutors say police afterward gave the young men, who were from a rural teacher college in Guerrero, to the Guerreros Unidos drug gang, adding that the students were killed and their remains were burned by the cartel.

However, independent experts from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) have questioned the official probe, saying that there is no evidence to support the account that the 43 were burned.

The relatives of the missing student as well as other fellow students are planning to hold a protest in Mexico City on Saturday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of their disappearance.

Mexico clashes injure11 police officers

Mexico clashes injure11 police officers
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/09/23/430366/Mexico-Guerrero-Ayotzinapa-Chilpancingo
Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:14AM

Student teachers from Ayotzinapa, Mexico, demanding justice for the 43 missing students, clash with riot police along the Tixtla-Chilpancingo highway in Tixtla, Guerrero, on Sept. 22, 2015. (AFP)

Clashes between Mexican riot police and protesters over the case of a number of missing students have left at least 11 police officers injured in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero.

On Tuesday, police blocked buses carrying relatives of the 43 young men and fellow students who were heading from the town of Tixtla to the state capital, Chilpancingo, to hold a demonstration.

Protesters threw Molotov cocktails at some 200 police officers, who responded with tear gas.

Civil protection officials said the scuffles left at least 11 officers wounded. Two students were also hurt, according to the protesters.

Masked students set fire to a lorry that they had already seized.

Students from the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College Raul Isidro Burgos are seen during a confrontation with riot police at a blocked road to Tixtla, on the outskirts of Chilpancingo, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, September 22, 2015. (AFP photo)

The scuffles came a day after a group of protesters ransacked the prosecutor's office in Chilpancingo, breaking furniture and computers.

The confrontation took place in the run-up to the first anniversary of the disappearance of the students. A protest is planned for Mexico City on Saturday to mark one year since the 43 students disappeared.

Firemen put out the fire after a truck was set ablaze during clashes with student teachers from Ayotzinapa who were angry about the disappearance of 43 students, on September 22, 2015. (AFP photo)

On September 26, 2014, the 43 students, all trainee teachers, disappeared in the city of Iguala in Guerrero state, following an attack by police forces suspected of having links to drug gangs. The incident took place during a protest rally over teachers’ rights.

Mexico jails prison officials over drug lord escape

Mexico jails prison officials over drug lord escape
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/09/19/429829/Mexico-drug-lord-Joaquin-El-Chapo-Guzman-
Sat Sep 19, 2015 9:34AM

Two Federal Police officers stand next to a patrol car with a picture of fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman earlier this year. AFP photo

Mexico has jailed at least 13 prison officials over the escape of notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

The drug kingpin broke out of a maximum security prison in July.

Leonor Garcia, formerly in charge of El Altiplano, the maximum security prison that Guzman fled, was one of those imprisoned on Friday, Mexican authorities told AFP.

Celina Oseguera, the former national coordinator of the federal prison system, was also incarcerated.

Both of them, Oseguera and Garcia, were being held at the female prison in Tepic, in the western state of Nayarit.

It was being reported that the other eleven prison officials were all guards and personnel at El Altiplano, and now they will all be serving time as inmates of that prison.

The imprisonments came after a judge in the capital Mexico City issued orders to arrest the suspects allegedly involved in the disappearance of "El Chapo."

The drug kingpin escaped from prison through a tunnel dug in his cell. The tunnel, 1.5 kilometers (one mile) long, was dug in his shower area, and footage shows Guzman walking in before disappearing from sight and going underground.

Guzman is the leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, which smuggles huge amounts of illegal drugs into the United States. He busted out of another maximum security penitentiary in 2001.

Thirteen years later he was caught in Mazatlan, a tourist resort on the Pacific coast in the state of Sinaloa.

The Mexican government is still looking for the drug lord and a $3.8 million reward is being offered for his arrest.

Mexican tourists injured in Egypt return home

Mexican tourists injured in Egypt return home
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/09/18/429758/Mexico-Egypt-tourists-militants-Mercedes-Juan-Lopez
Fri Sep 18, 2015 6:16PM

A Mexican woman who was wounded in an attack by the Egyptian army while traveling in Egypt is transferred from her return flight to a waiting helicopter at the presidential hangar of Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City, Friday, September 18, 2015. (Photo by AP)

Six Mexican tourists who were injured in a recent air raid by the Egyptian military on their vehicles have returned home, amid calls on authorities in Cairo to provide a clear answer on the attack that mistakenly killed eight other people.

The five women and one man were brought back home Friday on a presidential plane earlier sent by Mexico before being lifted by a helicopter to a public hospital for further treatment.

Mexico’s Health Secretary Mercedes Juan Lopez said all the wounded had suffered burns, respiratory problems or fractures, but reiterated that they were all in stable conditions.

Egypt says the six and the eight others who were killed in the attack last Sunday had entered a restricted area in the western desert, and were targeted mistakenly as security forces were chasing militants who had abducted and beheaded an Egyptian.

Survivors have recounted that they were targeted by bombs dropped from planes and helicopters.

Juan said that the injured had no sign of bullet wounds on their bodies, adding that most of the injuries were from shrapnel.

Gretel Overjague Chavez, one of the Mexican tourists wounded in an Egyptian army air strike on the Western Desert that mistakenly killed eight of her compatriots, is lifted into an ambulance as she leaves a Cairo hospital for the airport, September 17, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

Accompanying the victims was the Foreign Relations Secretary Claudia Ruiz Massieu, who had flown to Cairo with some of the relatives of the victims three days earlier to demand an explanation from Egyptian authorities.

“We are determined to exhaust all available means to defend the rights of each of the 14 Mexican civilians who were affected,” said Ruiz Massieu, adding that all options are being reviewed by legal experts.

She said the bodies of the eight dead tourists will be repatriated “in the coming days.”

In an update to its travel advisory, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department warned Mexicans to “reconsider or postpone their plans to travel to Egypt.”

Mother, 5 children dead in Mexico mudslide

Mother, 5 children dead in Mexico mudslide
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/09/18/429664/Mexico-mudslide-kills-mother-children
Fri Sep 18, 2015 12:22AM

File photo shows the aftermath of a mudslide in Mexico.

A mudslide caused by severe weather in Mexico has killed a mother and her five children, authorities say.

The incident happened on Thursday during heavy rains in the eastern state of Veracruz.

The 28-year-old mother and her children aged 12, 11, seven, three and 18 months, were killed in their sleep shortly after their home was hit by a landslide, said Ricardo Maza, the emergency response chief at the Veracruz civil protection agency.

The father, who was injured in the incident, helped in the desperate search for his family members, Maza added.

Heavy rains in Veracruz have caused damage to homes and businesses, and authorities are still trying to fully assess the damage done.

In recent years, Mexico has been hit hard by devastating weather that has triggered landslides.

Earlier this year, several people were killed by landslides in the central and eastern parts of the country.

In 2013, 101 people were killed and dozens more went missing after a landslide engulfed a whole village in the southern state of Guerrero.

Mexico foreign minister heads to Egypt over tourist deaths

Mexico foreign minister heads to Egypt over tourist deaths
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/09/15/429266/Mexico-Claudia-Ruiz-Massieu-Egypt-tourists-airstrike
Tue Sep 15, 2015 7:23AM

Mexico’s Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu (Photo by Reuters)

Mexico’s foreign minister has traveled to Egypt to follow up on the case of the recent killing of Mexican tourists by Egyptian security forces.

Claudia Ruiz Massieu left for Egypt late on Monday to seek answers from Cairo over an airstrike that inadvertently killed the Mexican tourists.

‘Unjustified attack’

The incident occurred on Sunday as the tourists were traveling in four cars in the Wahat area of the North African country’s Western Desert, which is popular with foreign tourists, but is also a site of militant activities.

At least two Mexicans were confirmed dead and six others wounded, while six more were unaccounted for.

Massieu told reporters at Mexico City’s international airport that Mexico faces “a terrible loss of human lives and an unjustified attack that obligates us to make the protection of our citizens the priority.”

Massieu said that she would hold talks with top Egyptian officials in order to “obtain first-hand information that can clear up the circumstances of this deplorable event, which has cost the lives of innocent Mexican tourists.”

The Mexican foreign minister is accompanied by seven relatives of some of the victims as well as Mexican doctors to care for the wounded.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto

Also on Monday, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto condemned the killing and demanded an “exhaustive” investigation into the fatal incident.

A narrative disputed

Meanwhile, Egypt’s Interior Ministry has said that the vehicles were “mistakenly dealt with” in a security operation that involved both armed forces and military police.

Senior Egyptian authorities say the tourists had been in an off-limit area as they came under attack by the government forces. They also say that the convoy was using unlicensed cars. That narrative has reportedly been disputed by a local tour guide who has said the tourists were not in a restricted area at the time of the airstrike.

Mexican survivors told Mexico’s ambassador to Egypt that they had stopped for a meal when they “suffered an aerial attack with bombs launched by a plane and helicopters,” Massieu said.

Experts believe that the incident will cause serious harm to Egypt’s lucrative tourist industry.

Over the past months, Egypt has been witnessing deadly attacks carried out by Daesh (ISIL)-linked Takfiri militants in the Sinai Peninsula. Velayat Sinai terrorists have claimed responsibility for most of the attacks in the region.

Last November, the group pledged allegiance to Daesh, which is wreaking havoc in Iraq and neighboring Syria.

Mexican president denounces killing of tourists in Egypt

Mexican president denounces killing of tourists in Egypt
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/09/14/429192/Egypt-Mexico-Enrique-Pena-Nieto-Velayat-Sinai--
Mon Sep 14, 2015 5:23PM

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto at the National Palace in Mexico City on September 2, 2015. (AFP photo)

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has strongly condemned the recent killing of Mexican tourists by Egyptian security forces, demanding that the Cairo government conduct an "exhaustive" investigation into the fatal incident.

The Mexican president on Monday called on the Egyptian government to probe the deaths of at least two of its nationals following the attack on a group of tourists by Cairo's security forces on Sunday.

“Mexico condemns these acts against our citizens and has demanded that the Egyptian government conduct an exhaustive investigation of what happened,” the president wrote in a post on Twitter.

The incident occurred as the tourists were traveling in four vehicles in the Wahat area of the North African country’s Western Desert, which is popular with foreign tourists, but is also attractive to militants.

The attack left 12 Mexicans and Egyptians dead and 10 others wounded.

Meanwhile, Egypt’s Interior Ministry has said that the vehicles were “mistakenly dealt with” in a security operation that involved both armed forces and military police.

Senior Egyptian authorities say the tourists had been in a restricted area as they came under attack by the government forces. However, a local tour guide in an interview with state-run BBC denied the Egyptian government’s claim, insisting the group was not in a restricted area.

Meanwhile, Mexico's Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu told a news conference that the tourists who were mistakenly killed by Egyptian security forces were hit by an airstrike.

Mexican survivors told Mexico's ambassador to Egypt that they had stopped for a meal when they "suffered an aerial attack with bombs launched by a plane and helicopters," Massieu said.

The Egyptian government says it would provide medical treatment to victims and aid in the repatriation of bodies back to Mexico.

Newly appointed Egyptian Tourism Minister Khaled Ramy leaves Dar al-Fouad Hospital in a western Cairo suburb following a visit to injured tourists on September 14, 2015. (AFP photo)

Experts believe that the incident will cause serious harm to Egypt's lucrative tourist industry.

The developments come as Egypt has been witnessing deadly attacks carried out by Daesh-linked Takfiri militants in the Sinai Peninsula.

Velayat Sinai terrorists have claimed responsibility for most of the attacks in Sinai Peninsula. Last November, the group pledged allegiance to the Daesh terrorist group, which is wreaking havoc primarily in Iraq and neighboring Syria.

6.6-magnitude earthquake rocks northwestern Mexico

6.6-magnitude earthquake rocks northwestern Mexico
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/09/13/428996/Earthquake-Mexico-Baja-California-Sinaloa-tsunami
Sun Sep 13, 2015 9:47AM

An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale has rocked northwestern Mexico.

An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale has rocked northwestern Mexico, with no immediate reports on possible casualties.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the 10-kilometer (six-mile) deep quake hit an area between the tourist resort region of Baja California and the state of Sinaloa early on Sunday.

The affected area is located 49 miles (80 km) south-southwest of Los Mochis, 53 miles (86 km) southwest of Juan José Ríos, 54 miles (86 km) south-southwest of Ahome, and 688 miles (1107 km) southeast of Tijuana in Baja California.

A 5.2-magnitude aftershock also rocked the area. This is while two less powerful quakes measuring 4.9 and 5.3 on the Richter scale had occurred in the tourist destination 35 minutes before the main one.

There is still no word on the possible casualties of the incident. Reports, however, say that there is no danger of tsunami in the region.

Four Mexico officials charged with helping ‘El Chapo’ escape

Four Mexico officials charged with helping ‘El Chapo’ escape
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/09/08/428227/Mexico-El-Chapo-Altiplano-Sinaloa
Tue Sep 8, 2015 4:52AM

Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman Loera, aka “El Chapo Guzman” (C), is escorted by Mexican marines in the capital, Mexico City, February 22, 2014. His arrest had been hailed as a great achievement by the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto. (Photo by AFP)

Four more Mexican officials have been formally charged after being suspected of aiding the July escape from prison of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo (Shorty)” Guzman.

Mexico’s federal judicial council said in a statement on Monday that two of those charged were prison employees tasked with the video monitoring of El Chapo’s cell and two were members of the Mexican intelligence service, who also worked at the high-security Altiplano Prison in central Mexico at the time.

The charges brought against the four say they failed to alert others of Guzman’s escape in a timely fashion.

A view of the entrance of the Altiplano Prison in the town of Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico, July 12, 2015. (AFP photo)

The drug kingpin escaped from prison through a tunnel dug in his cell on July 11.

The tunnel, 1.5 kilometers (one mile) long, was dug in his shower area, and footage shows Guzman walking in before disappearing from sight and going underground.

A view of the hole (L) in the shower of the prison where “El Chapo Guzman” used to escape, on July 15, 2015 (Photo by AFP)

Guzman is the leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, which smuggles huge amounts of illegal drugs into the United States. He busted out of another maximum security penitentiary in 2001.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto had billed his arrest last year as his biggest victory yet in his trademark war on drugs.

Three other Mexican prison workers were charged several weeks ago with aiding the 58-year-old in his jailbreak.

Mexico to carry out new probe in missing students’ case

Mexico to carry out new probe in missing students’ case
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/09/07/428080/Mexico-missing-students-IACHR-Arely-Gomez-Guerrero
Mon Sep 7, 2015 5:47AM

The photo taken in Mexico City on September 6, 2015 shows experts from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) presenting the conclusions of their investigation into the case of the 43 students who went missing in Mexico last September. (Photo by AFP)

Mexico’s attorney general says a fresh investigation will be carried out into the case of the 43 students who went missing in the country last year, following an independent report that questioned the government’s account of the incident.

Arely Gomez said on Sunday that a new forensic team would be sent to the area where the government claims the bodies of the students were incinerated at a garbage dump after they were killed.

‘Not borne out by evidence’

The comments came shortly after the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) said in a 500-page report that there was no evidence suggesting that the students had been burnt after they went missing in the state of Guerrero last September.

“We have no evidence to support where the disappeared are,” IACHR member Carlos Beristain said on Sunday during a presentation of the report in Mexico City.

The experts said that investigations, which are based on the work of a well-known fire expert, showed that “no evidence exists to support the theory based on the statements that the 43 bodies were cremated” at the Cocula landfill on September 27, 2014, the day after they went missing.

Government cover-up?

Torero said the theory that they were burned could not have been possible given the “conditions needed for what would be the minimum amount of fire necessary to cremate 43 bodies.”

The experts also said serious flaws existed in the official investigation into the case, including evidence in the case having been covered up, lost, or destroyed.

The relatives and friends of the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa attend a press conference of experts from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), in Mexico City, September 6, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

According to the Mexican government, the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel has confessed to killing and burning the remains of the students after receiving them from gang-linked police forces.

However, IACHR experts say confessions were made after torture.

Meanwhile, rights group Amnesty International also said the report showed the government’s “absolute incompetence” and “lack of will to find and punish those responsible.”

According to a student who escaped, the students were attacked and detained by police as they were traveling on bus in the city of Iguala to attend a protest. Six of the students were reportedly killed on the scene, while many others were taken into custody and never seen again.

Maestros mexicanos anuncian nuevas movilizaciones

Maestros mexicanos anuncian nuevas movilizaciones
http://www.hispantv.com/newsdetail/Mexico/71653/maestros-protestas-reforma-educativa-mexico
lunes, 19 de octubre de 2015 11:12

Una manifestación de los maestros de la Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE) contra la reforma educativa.

Maestros disidentes de sindicatos magistrales de México anunciaron nuevas acciones de protesta contra la reforma educativa del presidente Enrique Peña Nieto.

La Sección 22 del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE) y la Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE) decidieron el domingo realizar una movilización durante ese fin de semana en rechazo a la evaluación docente que aplicará la Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP) los días 14 y 15 de noviembre en el estado de Oaxaca (suroeste).

También acordaron para el próximo 26 de octubre organizar marchas regionales para expresar su apoyo a la Acción Global por Ayotzinapa, y la continuación de la búsqueda de los 43 normalistas desaparecidos el 26 de septiembre de 2014 en Iguala, en el estado sureño de Guerrero.

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Mexicanos se unen a las manifestaciones de paz en Palestina

Mexicanos se unen a las manifestaciones de paz en Palestina
http://www.hispantv.com/newsdetail/Reportajes/71530/mexicanos-unen-manifestaciones-paz-palestina
domingo, 18 de octubre de 2015 12:33

Ciudadanos mexicanos se unieron a las manifestaciones a favor de la paz en los territorios palestinos.

La manifestación para pedir el cese de la violencia del ejército israelí se llevó a cabo en uno de los monumentos de la capital mexicana: El Ángel de la Independencia. Con banderas y frases plasmadas en carteles exigieron paz en los territorios ocupados por Israel.

Los manifestantes demandaron que las fuerzas de ocupación israelíes terminen con las agresiones con armas de fuego de alto poder contra los palestinos.

La manifestación transcurrió en paz. Se unieron integrantes y simpatizantes de la Coordinadora de Solidaridad con Palestina y ciudadanos quienes respetaron el derecho de tránsito de los habitantes del Distrito Federal.

México se unió a la jornada de paz a favor del pueblo palestino. Ciudadanos mexicanos insisten en que debe terminar la violencia en contra de los palestinos por parte del ejército israelí.

Arturo Calvillo, Ciudad de México.

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FBI y DEA siguen pasos de ‘El Chapo’ en Colombia

FBI y DEA siguen pasos de ‘El Chapo’ en Colombia
http://www.hispantv.com/newsdetail/Mexico/71480/fbi-dea-chapo-colombia
domingo, 18 de octubre de 2015 2:14

El narcotraficante mexicano Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera.

Agentes especiales de la FBI y de la DEA buscan pistas sobre el prófugo Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán en Colombia.

De acuerdo con un informe del diario colombiano El Tiempo, agentes de la Agencia Antidrogas de Estados Unidos (DEA) y de la Oficina Federal de Investigaciones (FBI) “pidieron hace algunos días a las autoridades de Colombia toda la información disponible sobre los movimientos, hombres y contactos del cartel de Sinaloa (liderado por 'El Chapo') en el país”.

Para las autoridades de EE.UU. “en algún momento, el fugitivo capo mexicano (...) usará esos contactos para escabullirse de los 10 mil hombres que lo persiguen en México y de autoridades de 199 países que lo buscan desde hace ocho días, tras su fuga” el pasado 11 de julio del penal de máxima seguridad del Antiplano, en el estado de México.

El diario colombiano que asegura haber accedido a fuentes investigativas, precisó que “a través de dos emisarios de nacionalidad mexicana –‘Jairo Ortiz’ y alias Montiel– controlan ya el 35 por ciento del mercado de la coca en Colombia, lo que representa cerca de 100 toneladas de droga al año”.

Señaló que el Clan Úsuga, la principal organización de tráfico de droga en Colombia, al mando de Dairo Antonio Úsuga David (alias Otoniel) “brindan apoyo militar a los mexicanos cuando están en Colombia y, además, son sus anfitriones y grandes socios”.

Apuntó asimismo a dos jefes de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) como los otros grandes socios de los hombres de 'El Chapo', concretamente, mencionó a Darío Lee Díaz, “Robledo”, jefe del frente 48, que opera en Putumayo, y la cabeza de la columna “Daniel Aldana”, que actúa en Nariño y parte del Cauca.

Conforme al periódico colombiano, el cártel de Sinaloa, que creció pese a que su líder estuvo encarcelado, considera a las FARC, el clan Usuga y la organización que se conoce como la Empresa “claves en su estrategia de tomarse ocho puertos en el Pacífico, desde México hasta Perú”.

Entre tanto, las operaciones de recaptura del narcotraficante más buscado del mundo, según un comunicado del gabinete de Seguridad mexicano emitido el viernes, se han implementado con “trabajo de inteligencia e intercambio de información con agencias internacionales", que en "las últimas semanas se han focalizado en la región noroeste del territorio nacional”, donde hace unos días Guzmán ha resultado herido.

A 'El Chapo' se le rastrea en el territorio conocido como el "Triángulo Dorado", la región comprendida entre los estados de Chihuahua, Durango y Sinaloa, pues de acuerdo con el jefe interino de la DEA, Chuck Rosenberg, lo más seguro es que se encuentre en las zonas montañosas de Sinaloa, su ciudad natal, donde el capo, de 58 años, disfruta del apoyo de la población local.

En las operaciones de búsqueda, las autoridades mexicanas recurren a drones, geolocalización satelital y diversos datos proporcionados por personas que tuvieron contacto visual con Guzmán, pero como dijeron funcionarios mexicanos que participaron en el último fallido operativo, se ha "perdido la esperanza" de que 'El Chapo' regrese a prisión.

Mientras se montan operativos mayúsculos para dar con este delincuente, crecen las dudas y la polémica sobre su fuga de una prisión de máxima seguridad. La publicación reciente del vídeo en el momento de su huida desvela que los agentes de la prisión ignoraron los martillazos provenientes del hueco de la ducha por el que supuestamente escapó en una moto.

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Aumentan quejas sobre abusos contra migrantes en México

Aumentan quejas sobre abusos contra migrantes en México
http://www.hispantv.com/newsdetail/Mexico/71392/mexico-migrantes-centroamericanos-eeuu-abusos-pena-nieto
sábado, 17 de octubre de 2015 9:32

Los migrantes esperan un tren en Chacamax, en el estado de Chiapas, sito en el sureste de México. 21 de junio de 2015

Los abusos contra los migrantes en México que se dirigen a EE.UU. han aumentado, pese a que se ha reducido su número, según fuentes estatales.

De acuerdo con los datos publicados el viernes por la agencia británica de noticias Reuters, las quejas sobre abusos de funcionarios migratorios mexicanos han aumentado cerca del 40 por ciento.

Estos hechos se producen pese a que el volumen de migrantes centroamericanos -principalmente de Guatemala, El Salvador y Honduras- capturados tratando de cruzar a Estados Unidos ha bajado.

La reducción de la marea de migrantes se registró tras un plan lanzado en julio de 2014 por el presidente mexicano, Enrique Peña Nieto, con el fin de asegurar la frontera sur del país para los mexicanos y los migrantes.

El programa “Frontera Sur” tiene dos objetivos fundamentales: ordenar los cruces fronterizos de migrantes hacia México para incrementar el desarrollo y la seguridad en la región, y proteger y salvaguardar sus derechos humanos durante su estancia.

Sin embargo, desde la puesta en marcha del mencionado plan hasta junio del año en curso, se registraron 567 quejas de abusos por parte de funcionarios del Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM), incluyendo ataques y extorsiones; un 39 por ciento más que en los 12 meses anteriores.

Las quejas ante la Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (CNDH) de México acusan a funcionarios mexicanos de golpizas, extorsión, robo y negligencia.

El pasado 18 de abril, migrantes centroamericanos llegaron a Ciudad de México (capital) tras vencer los obstáculos para salir de Ixtepec, en el estado sureño de Oaxaca, a fin de denunciar al Gobierno federal los abusos de los que son objeto al pasar por este territorio rumbo a Estados Unidos.

Los manifestantes rechazaron el programa "Frontera Sur" y lo consideraron como un "exterminio de migrantes" y una "guerra no declarada".

Se calcula que unos 200 mil extranjeros indocumentados, la mayoría centroamericanos, ingresan cada año a México para buscar una mejor vida en Estados Unidos. En su camino enfrentan amenazas de organizaciones criminales que los secuestran, extorsionan y asesinan.

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El Chapo resultó herido al escapar de un operativo de captura

El Chapo resultó herido al escapar de un operativo de captura
http://www.hispantv.com/newsdetail/Mexico/71379/mexico-chapo-herido-captura-marina-dea-sinaloa
sábado, 17 de octubre de 2015 6:58

Dos agentes de la Policía Federal de México junto a un coche patrulla con una foto de “El Chapo”, en Acapulco, en el estado sureño de Guerrero

El narcotraficante mexicano ‘El Chapo’ resultó herido al escapar de un operativo de captura realizado en los últimos días en el oeste de México.

“Para evitar su aprehensión, en días recientes el prófugo realizó una huida precipitada, que de acuerdo con la información recabada, le causó lesiones en una pierna y en el rostro”, anunció el viernes el gabinete de seguridad mexicano, en un comunicado.

De acuerdo con el comunicado, Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán Loera no resultó herido en un enfrentamiento, sino durante “una huida precipitada” mientras estaba siendo perseguido por helicópteros de la Marina mexicana.

Estos hechos se produjeron después de que marines mexicanos y agentes de la Administración para el Control de Drogas de EE.UU. (DEA, por sus siglas en inglés) interceptaran señales de teléfonos móviles que indicaron que el narcotraficante se escondía en un rancho localizado en un pueblo de la Sierra Madre Occidental (oeste).

Los efectivos de la Marina mexicana irrumpieron en el rancho donde presuntamente se refugiaba 'El Chapo', sin embargo, fueron atacados por los agentes de seguridad del delincuente, lo que derivó en un enfrentamiento.

Minutos después, cuando los efectivos de seguridad de la Marina lograron ingresar al sitio, Guzmán y sus acompañantes huyeron en automóviles todoterreno, según fuentes estatales.

El gabinete de seguridad afirmó que seguirá realizando todas las acciones que permitan lograr la recaptura del líder del Cártel de Sinaloa, reza el comunicado.

El pasado 11 de julio, el narcotraficante mexicano Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera huyó del penal federal de máxima seguridad del Altiplano, estado de México, donde se hallaba, a través de un túnel de 1,5 kilómetros de largo que daba a su celda.

Se trataba de la segunda fuga del cabecilla del Cártel de Sinaloa: la primera tuvo lugar en 2001, cuando 'El Chapo' lo hizo escondido en un carrito de la lavandería de la cárcel Puente Grande de Jalisco.

'El Chapo' es llevado en helicóptero al penal de máxima seguridad Altiplano tras su detención en febrero de 2014.

El 30 de agosto, la Subprocuraduría Especializada en Investigación de Delincuencia Organizada (SEIDO) detuvo a al menos ocho personas presuntamente implicadas en la fuga de 'El Chapo’.

La Procuraduría General de la República de México (PGR) informó asimismo el pasado 8 de octubre de la detención de un piloto involucrado en el caso de 'El Chapo'.

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PGR: El Chapo tenía GPS en su televisión en celda

PGR: El Chapo tenía GPS en su televisión en celda
http://www.hispantv.com/newsdetail/Mexico/71223/mexico-chapo-gps-celda
viernes, 16 de octubre de 2015 1:17

‘El Chapo’ tenía GPS en su celda.

La Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) de México ha confirmado este jueves que el narcotraficante mexicano ‘El Chapo’ tenía un sistema GPS escondido en la pantalla de televisión de su celda.

“‘El Chapo’ utilizó el aparato electrónico para que sus cómplices pudieron ubicarlo y así poder monitorear el momento de su escape”, reza el comunicado difundido por la PGR.

La PGR añade que el conocido narcotraficante mexicano Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera, fugado el pasado 11 de julio del penal federal de máxima seguridad del estado del Altiplano (a unos 90 kilómetros de Ciudad de México), tuvo dicho televisor en su celda durante más de un año.

En otra parte del comunicado, la PGR autoriza la filtración de imágenes de vídeo sobre la fuga de narcotraficante, que por primera vez han sido divulgadas junto con el audio, que refleja el ruido de golpes que parecen ser los martillazos que abrieron un túnel hasta su celda.

La oposición de izquierda en el Congreso de México mantiene que los altos mandos de seguridad del país mintieron al negar la existencia del audio de las imágenes del escape, que a su juicio, pone de relieve la tardanza de más de tres horas de los vigilantes de los monitores.

El narcotraficante mexicano, Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán Loera.

Por su parte, el miembro de la Comisión de Seguridad Nacional del Congreso, el senador Alejandro Encinas, ha hecho hincapié en que la difusión de dichos audios fue rechazada por las autoridades de alto rango del país durante una reunión confidencial.

La huida de Guzmán fue un duro golpe para el Gobierno mexicano, que había recapturado a El Chapo en 2014, y la popularidad del presidente Enrique Peña Nieto se ha desplomado hasta su nivel más bajo (34 %) desde que asumió el poder, hace casi tres años.

Recientemente, los resultados de una encuesta revelaron que el 80 por ciento de los mexicanos no cree la versión que dio el Gobierno sobre la fuga del narcotraficante, considerado uno de los hombres más peligrosos del mundo.

Los informes del Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos revelaron que al menos 14 empresas pertenecientes al narco han estado relacionadas de alguna manera con el Gobierno de México.

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Gobierno mexicano rechaza informes sobre DDHH

Gobierno mexicano rechaza informes sobre DDHH
http://www.hispantv.com/newsdetail/Reportajes/71116/crisis--derechos-humanos--mexico
jueves, 15 de octubre de 2015 9:09

El Gobierno de México ha refutado los informes de la ONU sobre la situación de los derechos humanos en el país que evidencian una crisis sobre este asunto.

Este 2015, México ha recibido tres reportes sobre derechos humanos que han provocado el rechazo de las autoridades mexicanas.

El primero fue de Juan E. Méndez, relator especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre la Tortura, quien luego de un análisis concluyó que la tortura es una práctica generalizada en México.

Fue duramente criticado por la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. Lo que no fue bien visto por legisladores de oposición.

El más fuerte y concluyente fue enviado por la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) que, a principios de este mes, manifestó que México vive una crisis de derechos humanos debido a una situación de extrema inseguridad y violencia, falta de acceso a la justicia e impunidad.

El Gobierno mexicano dijo que el reporte no refleja la situación general sobre el asunto. Otros legisladores también criticaron esta actitud oficial.

Por si esto fuera poco, en una reciente visita, el Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos calificó de "insensible" la cifra de 26.000 desaparecidos o no localizados en México.

Zeid Raad al-Husein aseguró que el Gobierno mexicano ha sido intolerante ante la crítica.

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas y la CIDH manifestaron su preocupación por la crisis que enfrenta México sobre la materia durante todo este 2015.

Según analistas es tiempo de ver que hará el Gobierno de Enrique Peña Nieto para resolver esta situación.

Arturo Calvillo, Ciudad de México.

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Nuevo vídeo de la fuga de El Chapo revela sonidos de martillazos

Nuevo vídeo de la fuga de El Chapo revela sonidos de martillazos
http://www.hispantv.com/newsdetail/Mexico/71078/mexico-chapo-sinaloa-martillazos-video-televisa
jueves, 15 de octubre de 2015 0:21

El Chapo es llevado en helicóptero al penal de máxima seguridad Altiplano tras su detención en febrero de 2014.

Un nuevo vídeo reveló que varios golpes parecidos a martillazos se escucharon en la celda del narcotraficante mexicano ‘El Chapo’ minutos antes de su fuga.

Además de los sonidos de martillazos, se escucharon asimismo los gritos de quienes ayudaron a Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán Loera a salir por el hueco hecho en su ducha, según el vídeo de la cámara de seguridad de la celda de Guzmán en el penal de máxima seguridad del Altiplano que fue filtrado el miércoles, por primera vez, con audio al canal mexicano de televisión Televisa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BbOr3Cgamo

Esta nueva grabación recoge también, de forma inédita, imágenes de la sala de monitoreo y los momentos previos y posteriores a la fuga del líder del Cártel de Sinaloa a través de un hueco cavado en la ducha de su celda.

El vídeo igualmente muestra cómo los custodios tardaron 25 minutos en atender la situación y corroborar que el preso se fugó.

Según diversas investigaciones, a Guzmán Loera le tomó alrededor de 15 minutos recorrer el túnel que se construyó debajo de su celda.

El canal Televisa publicó también el diálogo que el policía enviado a la celda de 'El Chapo' mantuvo con su jefe.

“Jefe, hay un hoyo en la regadera, en la coladora de la regadera”, avisa nervioso el guardia. “¿De qué tamaño?”, le pregunta el supervisor. “Grande, comandante, grande”, responde el policía. “Oye, pero ¿el interno no está ahí?, dice el jefe. “No, comandante, no está”, de acuerdo con la grabación.

El Gobierno mexicano ya había presentado algunos fragmentos en julio, pero la falta de audio no permitió identificar el sonido.

El pasado 11 de julio, el narcotraficante mexicano Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera huyó del penal federal de máxima seguridad del Altiplano, estado de México, a través de un túnel de 1,5 kilómetros de largo que daba a su celda.

Se trataba de la segunda fuga del cabecilla del Cártel de Sinaloa: la primera tuvo lugar en 2001 cuando 'El Chapo' lo hizo escondido en un carrito de la lavandería de la cárcel Puente Grande de Jalisco.

El 30 de agosto, la Subprocuraduría Especializada en Investigación de Delincuencia Organizada (SEIDO) detuvo a al menos ocho personas presuntamente implicadas en la fuga de 'El Chapo’.

La Procuraduría General de la República de México (PGR) informó asimismo el pasado 8 de octubre de la detención de un piloto involucrado en el caso de 'El Chapo'.

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Expertos argentinos revelan irregularidades en caso de Ayotzinapa

Expertos argentinos revelan irregularidades en caso de Ayotzinapa
http://www.hispantv.com/newsdetail/Mexico/71001/expertos-irregularidades-43-desaparecidos-ayotzinapa
miércoles, 14 de octubre de 2015 11:12

Pancartas con fotografía de los estudiantes desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa

Un nuevo informe de expertos que investigan el caso de los 43 desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa, en el estado Guerrero de México, desvelan graves fallas en los expedientes.

El Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense (EAAF) alertó el martes ante el exjefe de la Procuraduría General de la República de México (PGR), Jesús Murilo Karam, que hubo irregularidades en las pesquisas, tales como peritos falsos y armados, contaminación de la posible escena del crimen y errores en las pruebas de ADN.

El 26 de diciembre de 2014, los estudiantes de la normal rural de Ayotzinapa fueron víctimas de la represión policial en Chilpancingo, la capital del estado de Guerrero (sur), cuando exigían el cumplimiento de un pliego petitorio que demandaba la reparación de las instalaciones del centro educativo, el aumento de presupuesto y la garantía de plazas en el sector público para el 100 por ciento de los egresados.

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Corrupción el mal que preocupa a México

Corrupción el mal que preocupa a México
http://www.hispantv.com/newsdetail/Reportajes/70993/corrupcion-mexico-banco-mundial-bid
miércoles, 14 de octubre de 2015 9:19

La corrupción ya tiene números, costos y consecuencias para México. Ya no se puede esconder.

Los actos corruptos de funcionarios y de ciudadanos impactan a la economía en otro terreno básico para el desarrollo.

Representantes de instituciones como el Banco Mundial (BM) Roby Senderowitsch, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), la embajada Británica en México y la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo (USAID, por sus siglas en inglés) participaron en una conferencia sobre corrupción. Hubo consenso en que tiene un alto costo, no solo para la economía del país, sino para las familias de escasos recursos.

Los investigadores expresaron que la corrupción se puede erradicar. Negaron que esté en el código de genética social de los mexicanos, porque se aprende desde muy temprana edad.

Los legisladores mexicanos tienen en agenda, la discusión de leyes anticorrupción, pero reconocer que aún falta mucho por hacer.

Los ponentes de este seminario sobre corrupción, coincidieron que este mal, afecta de manera severa a la economía mexicana en todos sus niveles, desde el Producto Interno Bruto (PIB), hasta la microeconomía de las familias de escasos recursos.

Arturo Calvillo, México

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Maestros de la CNTE protestan contra reforma educativa en México

Maestros de la CNTE protestan contra reforma educativa en México
http://www.hispantv.com/newsdetail/Reportajes/70859/maestros-cnte-reforma-educativa-mexico
martes, 13 de octubre de 2015 11:35

En México, la disidencia del sindicato magisterial volvió a salir a las calles de la Ciudad de México (capital). Se mantienen en pie de lucha contra la reforma educativa.

Los maestros de la Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE) se manifestaron en varias partes del país.

En la capital, marcharon durante varias horas por calles y avenidas para reiterar al Gobierno Federal que su movimiento contra la reforma educativa, sigue a pesar de las amenazas contra su estabilidad laboral. Dicen que el gobierno no entiende que las reformas constitucionales en la materia, afectan la educación de los jóvenes mexicanos.

Los maestros de la CNTE anunciaron que seguirán con sus manifestaciones a pesar de que las autoridades educativas, les aplicarán sanciones administrativas.

Los maestros de la CNTE, llegaron hasta las puertas de la Secretaría de Educación Pública en donde reiteraron que no cederán a las presiones del Gobierno Federal a pesar de que les descuenten sus salarios por acudir a estas manifestaciones públicas.

Arturo Calvillo, México

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Padres de 43 normalistas impedirán elecciones municipales en Tixtla

Padres de 43 normalistas impedirán elecciones municipales en Tixtla
http://www.hispantv.com/newsdetail/Mexico/70837/padres-43-normaklistas-impiden-elecciones-tixtla
martes, 13 de octubre de 2015 7:06

Padres de los 43 estudiantes desaparecidos en México llevan las fotos de sus hijos durante una marcha en el primer aniversario de la tragedia. 26 de septiembre de 2015

Los padres de algunos de los 43 estudiantes desaparecidos en Iguala, sur de México, anunciaron el domingo que volverán a impedir las elecciones municipales en Tixtla.

Los padres de los normalistas en la reunión de la asamblea popular del municipio de Tixtla con los representantes de Ayotzinapa informaron que no dejarían que se celebren las elecciones de este mismo municipio hasta que resuelvan el caso de Iguala, por otra parte añadieron que los que fueron elegidos para figurar en el ayuntamiento de Tixtla, deben ser aprobados por el pueblo.

“Nosotros, los padres de familia, no vamos a permitir que en Tixtla haya elecciones, pues las autoridades de los tres niveles de gobierno han ignorado el tema de presentación con vida de nuestros hijos”, ratificó una madre de uno de los estudiantes desaparecidos, citada por Europea Press.

El pasado junio, los familiares de algunos de los estudiantes desaparecidos de la escuela de Ayotzinapa tras quemar papeletas electorales y urnas, anularon los comicios para elegir autoridades locales y federales en Tixtla, en el estado de Guerrero.

Al respecto, pese a las advertencias de las familias de los desaparecidos y la anulación de los comicios de junio, los funcionarios de Guerrero declararon esta semana que las elecciones municipales volverán a celebrarse el 29 de noviembre, lo que provocó otro boicot.

Mexicanos toman las calles del estado de Guerrero en protesta para pedir el cese de la violencia. 2 de octubre de 2015.

En este sentido, el movimiento de Ayotzinapa afirma que busca establecer un municipio popular gobernado al margen de los partidos políticos.

En este mismo sentido, la Fiscalía de México hizo público el domingo en su portal de internet el expediente del caso de los 43 estudiantes desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa. Para realizar la publicación del expediente, participaron alrededor de 100 funcionarios públicos y el Instituto Nacional de Transparencia, Acceso a la Información y Protección de Datos Personales (INAI) confirmó la información clasificada del expediente.

México es escenario de un sinnúmero de movilizaciones después de que el 26 de septiembre del año pasado, un grupo de policías locales atacara a 43 alumnos en Iguala, en el estado sureño de Guerrero, y los entregara al cártel Guerreros Unidos.

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