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They militarize City Juárez |
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| Hundreds of soldiers of the Mexican Army arrive to patrol City Juárez, in Mexico, on Sunday, the 15th, in order to face the violence of the organized crime. Photo: AP |
Mexico
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A general in retirement of the army assumed Monday, the 16th as chief of public safety in this violent frontier metropolis, and a retired colonel stayed like police officer chief like part of a militarization that includes approximately 7.000 soldiers.
General Julián Rivera Bretón was nominated a chief of public safety, then that the previous manager was resigning after the delinquents were threatening to kill a police officer every day meanwhile it was continuing in the charge. Two signs of this type, apparently left by criminal groups, were placed in the corpses of an agent and a monitor.
Breton Rivera was sworn at a very watched police officer station.
" The only thing for that I ask to the citizenship is that he keeps on cooperating with us, who offers to us his confidence and should give us information", he affirmed.
For his part, colonel Alfonso Cristóbal Melgar took up office like chief of the police citadina, after that the previous manager, Sacramento Pérez Serrano, was murdered to shots together with another three police officers in February.
Hundreds of soldiers came in the last days, for a whole of 7.000 the beginning of the this week. There are also more than 2.300 federal police officers in the city, indicated the spokesman of the joint operation with the army, Enrique Torres Valadez.
A military man in assets, Mario Hernández Escobedo, was nominated an adviser in safety of the mayor of the city, José Reyes Ferriz, who said that the military men would continue under the control of the army, but they would coordinate actions with the local police.
After hundreds of murders related to the drug trafficking, the city seems finally under a relative calmness. His streets are full of positions of control and trailers of the police, what has bothered some.
They discover corpses
Meanwhile, the Mexican police found nine partially buried corpses and with signs of torture in the desert that surrounds City Juárez, on the border with the United States, in one more apparent sign of the violence related to the drug trafficking.
The investigators are registering the place to the south of the city to see if there are more bodies and to try to identify the corpses.
The official of state safety Enrique Torres Valadez said that nine corpses were found: seven men and two women. "One of the bodies was married, all of them were tortured and they had days, weeks, deceased in this place", he added.
Bolivia
They ask for justice
Opponents met the president Evo Morales on Monday, the 16th to ask for the liberation of the ex-governor of the Amazon region of Bulging, Leopoldo Fernández, after six months imprisoned without judgment, accused of promoting violent shocks that more than 13 dead persons left.
Honduras
Narco-terrorism
The Colombian president Alvaro Uribe said on Monday, the 16th here, in official visit, that his country and Honduras have the legal mechanisms to face jointly the narco-terrorism impelled by the guerrillas of the FARC. "It is necessary to fight the terrorism at every hour and without any truce", he warned.
Ecuador
To the border
A delegation of the Organization of the American States (OEA) covered on Monday, the 16th areas of the border to state the aftereffects of the Colombian conflict in Ecuador, in an attempt of bringing positions over between two countries that for one year keep his relations broken.
Peru
last survey
Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the ex-president Alberto Fujimori and Luis Castañeda, mayor of Lima, is headed with 19 % by each one, the intentions of vote for the presidential elections of 2011, indicated a survey of the newspaper Commerce and the signature Ipsos Apoyo published on Sunday, the 15th. They are continued by the leader of the nationalistic group Ollanta Humala with 17 %; Lourdes Flores and Alejandro Toledo appear with 11 % of preferences.
Brazil
Mistaken map
A map of South America in which Ecuador does not appear while Paraguay and Uruguay are changed of place, is used for the education of the pupils of sixth grade in the public schools of the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, he informed the television news "Bom Día Brazil" of the network Balloon.
Cuba
6to anniversary
The "Checkers of Target" remembered on Tuesday, the 17th the sixth anniversary of the arrests of his husbands, imprisoned from 2003, and announced activities to demand the liberation. They informed that they will realize a program of six days - one day for every year of sit-in - of marches, masses and meetings.
Guatemala
They burn them
Three persons died burned in an incident happened on Tuesday, the 17th in Huehuetenango, to the northwest of Guatemala, frontier area with Mexico. "The police were alerted by an anonymous call on which there were three dead persons and to approximately 20 meters of them a motorcar, calcined all", said the police spokesman Marco Tulio Trejo.
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